This paper presents work-in-progress on the Social Semantic Server, an open framework providing applications and their users with a growing set of services of different granularity that utilize social and artifact network data. The Social Semantic Server forms a novel approach to store, query and update semantically enriched social data in order to exploit its relations within. The use of its s...

The article describes progress and challenges in incorporating a gender perspective into the Cuban health system. Results obtained thus far indicate progress in raising consciousness and in concentration on the interaction between biological and social factors, in particular recognizing gender as a social determinant of health. Weaknesses are also identified, and recommendations made for introd...

Materials and methods The sample included 90 male participants (64 of which completed follow-up) and seven counselor participants (i.e., four females and three males) from communitybased treatment in a Midwestern metropolitan area. Hierarchical linear modeling was conducted to examine the influence of victimization and violence history, psychiatric disorders (i.e., anxiety, depression), social ...