Informal student groups in Far Eastern Federal University exhibited significant activity and received essential support from the university administrators during COVID?19 pandemic. Since pandemic burst out, number of informal known to has only increased, counterintuitively. Our findings show that value for participants educational process is comparable formal education programs, although partic...

We identify the need for a theory of demand for health insurance suited to the informal sector in lowand middle income countries (LMIC) where some 3 billion people lack health cover. Excluded from formal governance structures, they rely on informal arrangements by which rulesin-use shape choices, behaviours and decisions. We explore the fundamental assumptions of standard economic theories of d...

This paper explores the characteristics and relationships of marginality in informal space and plotlander housing in the context of Homi K. Bhabha’s cultural hybridity and Third Space. To illustrate and examine the processes of marginalisation that defined informal space in the UK this paper will critically analyse the previously undocumented plotlander community at Studd Hill on the North Kent...

INTRODUCTION Interpersonal contacts have been identified as performing an important role in supply chain management, especially where the cultural concept of informal relationships has a major influence on both social and business norms. Perhaps the most studied type of informal relationship is guanxi, which derives from Chinese social-cultural norms and influences human behaviour in society. E...

The evidence of the impact of informal care provision on the health of carers presents a complex and contested picture, depending on the characteristics of the care studied, including its duration, which has been relatively short in previous research (up to 4 years). Drawing on data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, a 1% sample of linked Census records for respondents ...

The use of digital mobile phones has led to a tremendous increase in communication using SMS. On a phone keypad, multiple words are mapped to same numeric code. We propose a Context Based Word Prediction system for SMS messaging in which context is used to predict the most appropriate word for a given code. We extend this system to allow informal words (short forms for proper English words). Th...

Athlete-driven informal sport play represents an important context for athlete development. However, in contrast to coach-driven organized sport, little is known about the interpersonal processes driving development in this context. The present study was an exploratory descriptive analysis of the interactive peer behaviors occurring in an informal sport play setting and their relationship to at...