Abstract Despite the consolidated body of public international law on children’s rights and armed conflict, why do rebel groups state forces deploy children in particularly Somalia? First, due to lack alternative sources income livelihood beyond join army coercive recruitment by commanders groups. Their participation conflict generates a fleeting false sense material security belongingness grou...

The shift to a remote work environment introduced new barriers inclusion that calls for reimagining the contexts and cultures individuals are now working in. Key impacts of an inclusive culture discussed in this article feelings belongingness engaging meaningful work. Sustaining culture, means employers will need re-think critical organizational forces such as leadership needed reinforce inclus...

Remote sensing images segmentation is a challenging task in analysis process of terrestrial applications. In this paper, we propose a combination of two segmentation methods of remote sensing images. The first based on MRF (Markov Random Fields) method which takes into account the neighboring labels of the pixels and the second is computed with a Fuzzy C-means technique to improve the likelihoo...

Social media usage has grown by leaps and bound over the last decade and has become an important platform being used by the workforce for both work and non-work related purposes. The usage of these tools varies across employees and organizations depending on multiple factors. The present study examines the social media usage at workplace in Information Technology professionals by measuring it o...

Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one's past, is an emotion that arises from self-relevant and social memories. Nostalgia functions, in part, to foster self-continuity, that is, a sense of connection between one's past and one's present. This article examined, in 6 experiments, how nostalgia fosters self-continuity and the implications of that process for well-being. Nostalgia fosters self-c...

This study aimed to explore the loneliness of several groups of older immigrants in Canada compared to native-born older adults. Data from the Canadian General Social Survey, Cycle 22 (N older adults = 3,692) were used. The dependent variable is the 6 item De Jong Gierveld loneliness scale. Determinants of loneliness included country of birth, ethnic background (cultural context); belongingness...

Bijayalaxmi Panda, Soumya Sahoo, Sovan Kumar Patnaik Abstract— Cluster analysis is one of the major techniques in pattern recognition, which is basically considered as one of the unsupervised learning technique. We can apply clustering techniques in various areas like clustering medicine, business, engineering systems and image processing, etc.,The traditional hard clustering methods restrict t...

Attachment to one's kin as an in-group emerges from a fundamental human motivation and is vital for human survival. Despite important recent advances in the field of social neuroscience, the neural mechanisms underlying family-related in-group perception remain obscure. To examine the neural basis of perceiving family-related in-group boundaries in response to written kinship scenarios, we used...