UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Amidst an evolving post-apartheid policy framework for health, policymakers have sought to institutionalize community participation in Primary Health Care, recognizing participation as integral to realizing South Africa's constitutional commitment to the right to health. With evolving South African legislation supporting community involvement in the health system, early...

objectives: the present study aimed at studying the health status of the elderly supported by imam khomeini relief foundation in birjand in 2007. methods & materials: this descriptive analytical study was done on 250 elderly people who were supported by imam khomeini committee in birjand. for data collection the comprehensive health questionnaire of the elderly was used. the questionnaire was f...

The Internet has undergone numerous transformations in its less than 20 years of existence. As discussed in the first of our selected papers, a fundamental transformation was its migration from Web 1.0 (with a broadcast-oriented architecture enforcing a strict separation between consumers and producers) to the social Web 2.0 (supporting broad-based participation allowing users to create and sha...

The BioNLP Shared Task 2011, an information extraction task held over 6 months up to March 2011, met with community-wide participation, receiving 46 final submissions from 24 teams. Five main tasks and three supporting tasks were arranged, and their results show advances in the state of the art in fine-grained biomedical domain information extraction and demonstrate that extraction methods succ...

In this paper we investigate collaborative learning that takes place in a city with the support of mobile and wireless technology. Based on a literature review, we identify and discuss four main roles: (1) supporting performance of shared tasks, (2) supporting social networking, (3) supporting active participation, and (4) supporting visibility of learning. Each role is illustrated with a short...

This paper describes two alternative optimization approaches, global and divided, for supporting the participation of an electric vehicles (EV) aggregator in the day-ahead spot market. The two optimization approaches are formulated as linear optimization problems, and the difference is on how information about EV is represented. The global approach uses aggregated (or total) values of the EV va...

Mindful design of learning spaces can provide an avenue for supporting student engagement in STEM subjects. Thoughtful planning and wide participation in the design process were key in shaping new and renovated spaces for the STEM community at the University of Puget Sound. The finished project incorporated Puget Sound's mission and goals as well as attention to pedagogical principles, and led ...

An ageing population and tendency towards e-government has reinforced the need for further e-government research with older people. We have conducted a rapid ethnographical study aimed at understanding a relevant aspect of e-government with them: fostering the engagement of older people in their local community through Information and Communication Technologies. We present preliminary results o...