nowadays, adolescent girls live in such a more complex and challengeable world that considering their infinite desires and potential abilities as social, cultural, economical and geographical conditions change their needs and social inclinations become more diverse and dynamic. this study probes into the social, cultural, and educational needs of adolescent girls studying at junior high school ...

Needs Assessment Survey: A Case of Female Junior High Schoolers’ Parents M. Samiee Zafarghandi, Ph.D. F. Gholami This research was carried out to identify the educational needs of parents of female junior high Schoolers in Ilam Province. The sample size was determined to be 338 based on Morgan’s formula and the participants were chosen through multi-stage sampling ...

Healthy living is an increasingly important topic on the agenda of policy makers. Containment of health care cost through public health and specific prevention programs is seen as a key element of the current social-economic policies in the western world. mHealth technology holds the promise to make healthy living more effective than traditional prevention programs. As part of a broad healthy l...

In this paper, we present SQTime, a system for social search queries that exploit temporal information available in social networks. Specifically, SQTime introduces different types of queries aiming at satisfying information needs from different perspectives. SQTime is built upon a social graph and query model both augmented with time, and develops methods for query processing and time-dependen...

Abstract Social innovations (SIs) contribute to solving or at least mitigating many of the most pressing grand challenges. Similar profit-oriented innovations, which are mainly developed by existing organizations and entrepreneurs, SIs implemented individual actors - social innovators. While much literature examines needs entrepreneurs suggests entrepreneurial ecosystems as an adequate approach...