E-health resources can deliver demonstrable benefits for quality of care, for example through provision of public health information and access to online communities and self-help groups for those experiencing ill-health. Digitally excluded groups of health consumers such as older people and those with disabilities have much to gain from the social connectedness and social support offered throu...

The determination and subsequent analysis of potential enemy course of actions (COAs) forms a key element within the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace (IPB) process. Enemy COA prediction and analysis is also key element of threat assessment data fusion processing. Here we formulate an architecture that employs genetic algorithms (GAs) to generate and evaluate enemy COAs. This formulat...

BACKGROUND The Kabeho Mwana project (2006-2011) supported the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MOH) in scaling up integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness in 6 of Rwanda's 30 districts. The project trained and equipped community health workers (CHWs) according to national guidelines. In project districts, Kabeho Mwana staff also trained CHWs to conduct household-level health p...

Social support coping has been shown to mediate the relationship between gender and posttraumatic growth. This study examined whether empathy also serves as a significant mediator in this relationship, potentially as a precursor to social support coping. Participants (N = 156) were recruited on a college campus and at a retirement community. They completed questionnaires that assessed the varia...

Resource effect studies can be useful in highlighting areas of improvement in informatics tools. Before a large randomized trial, we tested the functions of the Decide2Quit.org Web-assisted tobacco intervention using smokers (N=204) recruited via Google advertisements. These smokers were given access to Decide2Quit.org for six months and we tracked their usage and assessed their six months cess...

what happened in recent decades in collapse of several states and birth of new ones, raised serious questions about the legal aspects of the problem. does international community actually endorse the unilateral secession to create new states? what could be the real impacts of recent cases like kosovo and ossetia on the future of international legal order? the present article tries to find these...

A s telecommunication networks become more common, there is an increasing interest in the factors underljdng the development of online social structures. It has been proposed that these structures are new forms of organizing which are not subject to the same constraints as traditional social structures. However, from anecdotal evidence and case studies it is difficult to evaluate whether online...

Online health communities (OHCs) are an important source of social support for cancer survivors and their informal caregivers. This research attempted to identify leaders in a popular online forum for cancer survivors and caregivers using classification techniques. We first extracted user features from many different perspectives, including contributions, network centralities, and linguistic fe...