Dalihan Na Tolu is a philosophy of life Batak ethnic which believed to maintain the regularity social in community and family Bataks. sets form addressing, position, attitude, applicated traditional ceremonies everyday life. In middle swift currents globalization at this time, there concern about erosion local wisdom culture, including that has been for long especially families who live metropo...

BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Nigeria is currently undergoing rapid epidemiological transition. The objective was to study whether urbanization is associated with increased prevalence of MetS between native rural Abuja settlers and genetically related urban dwellers. MATERIALS AND METHODS It was a cross-sectional study. Three hundred an...

In this paper, we present a two-fold view on how software agents cooperate and thereby produce some sort of social structure. First, we compare sociological and Computer Sciencebased models of actors and agents. Then, we introduce two distinct approaches, one from Computer Science and one from Sociology, namely Abstract Resources and Generalised Media of Interaction. Both consider how local int...