BACKGROUND While online health social networks (OHSNs) serve as an effective platform for patients to fulfill their various social support needs, predicting the needs of users and providing tailored information remains a challenge. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to discriminate important features for identifying users' social support needs based on knowledge gathered from survey da...

The dramatic increase of social networking sites forced web users to duplicate their identity on many of them. But, the lack of interoperability and linkage between these social networks allowed users’ information to be disseminated within walled garden data islands. Achieving interoperability will contribute to the creation of rich knowledge base that can be used for querying social networks a...

Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social participation. Our study adds to this body of research by conducting the first empirical assessment of how onli...

In this discussion of Emad Atiq's article "There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-Positivism" I pose three challenges his construction an Inclusive Anti-positivism. firstly argue that, contra Atiq, the moral facts that both ground IAP and allow it satisfy extensional challenge sometimes reducible social facts. Section II, briefly discuss internal- external-to-practice appraisals legal ...

Ontologies are a well researched formalism in computer science to represent knowledge in a machine processable manner. Recently, with the growing semantic web and social networks, ontologies with large amounts of data are becoming available. While such knowledge representations are intended for data integration and deduction of implicit knowledge, they are in general not designed to induce unce...

'Both thinking and facts are changeable, if only because changes in thinking manifest themselves in changed facts. Conversely, fundamentally new facts can be discovered only through new thinking.' Ludwick Fleck (1935) Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. 1,pp.50–51 'Once we recognize the state of the art is a social product, we are freer to look critically at the agenda of our science,...

In his last writings, Wittgenstein repeatedly addresses the question of how our concepts relate to general facts nature or human and they are embedded in lives. doing so, he uses term “pattern life”, characterizing complicated relationship between lives “are connected with what interests us, matters us” (LWPP II, 46). But who is this “us”, whose manifest we use designate patterns life? What if ...

those who took home after social were divided into two categories: first are the ones who took the women and the home from the perspective of internal passionate, we see  their interest in the home naive and emotional, and the second are those who have  made its intellectual aspect the basis of their experiment, so, we see their interest in  the home and its humanitarian issues deeper and more ...