OBJECTIVES The aim of this scoping review was to assess the oral health status of the children of refugees and immigrants ("newcomers"); the barriers to appropriate oral health care and use of dental services; and clinical and behavioural interventions for this population in North America. METHODS Explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria were used in searching electronic databases to identif...

Previous studies on newcomer socialization have evidenced quite consistently that newcomers’ affective commitment tends to decline in the first years of employment. In this paper, we attempt to explain why a minority of Brazilian newcomers in a governmental organization (N = 194) display growth in commitment (33 per cent) in the first 3 years of employment, despite the fact that the odds are cl...

This conceptual paper aims to expand the notion of “farming newcomers” in Europe by also including those that we label “involuntary newcomers”, who correspond workforce coming unwillingly farming for reasons associated with spatial (im)mobilities. We fully develop our aim four steps. Firstly, present an integrative literature review which describes how interplay between key concepts sustainable...

Reputation systems provide an incentive for cooperation in artificial societies by keeping track of the behavior of autonomous entities. The self-organization of P2P systems demands for the distribution of the reputation system to the autonomous entities themselves. They may cooperate by issuing recommendations of other entities’ trustworthiness. The recipient of a recommendation has to assess ...

This paper provides an introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), focused at bringing in newcomers who have to deal with a digital document project and are looking at the capacity that the TEI environment may have to fulfil his needs. To this end, we avoid a strictly technical presentation of the TEI and concentrate on the actual issues that such projects face, with parallel made on th...

Humorous images can be seen in many social media websites. However, newcomers to these websites often have trouble fitting in because the community subculture is usually implicit. Among all the types of humorous images, Internet memes are relatively hard for newcomers to understand. In this work, we develop a system that leverages crowdsourcing techniques to generate explanations for memes. We ...