this study focuses on the level of suffering from social problems and tests the moderator role of community size in relation with suffering from social problems. our study was conducted in gharbia governorate, egypt. two contrasting villages were chosen as the highest and lowest on human development index (hdi). a purposive sample of inhabitants in the age category 18-40 years was chosen. sampl...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present research was to test the efficacy of Fruit & Veg $ense sessions in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption. DESIGN A wait-list randomised controlled trial was conducted (n 292). Intervention participants attended a Fruit & Veg $ense session and received newsletters at weeks 2 and 5 after attending the session. All participants completed an FFQ and a q...

Community size is often found to be negatively correlated with prosocial behaviors such as formal volunteering, working on public projects and informal help to friends and strangers (Putnam 2000, p. 119, 206). This may be because people who reside in large communities simply spend less time socializing with each other. As a result, people living in large cities have on average fewer friends, an...

It is well-known that community detection methods based on modularity optimization often fails to discover small communities. Several objective functions used for community detection therefore involve a resolution parameter that allows the detection of communities at different scales. We provide an explicit upper bound on the community size of communities resulting from the optimization of seve...

Community discovery in social networks has received a significant amount of attention in the social media research community. The techniques developed by the community have become quite adept at identifying the large communities in a network, but often neglect smaller communities. Evaluation techniques also show this bias, as the resolution limit problem in modularity indicates. Small communiti...