background: implementing community-based psychiatric services is one of the priorities of the who/emro mental health programs. this study presents an aftercare service, as a community based-service, for patients with severe mental illness (smis).   methods : in this randomized controlled clinical trial design, 176 patients, who attended selective hospitals with smi, were allocated into three gr...

this case study was conducted to determine the benefits of a multi-dimensional study abroad program that included a community service component. it encompassed the following aspects of the study abroad experience: motivation for travel, language learning research, the role of autonomy in language learning, and cultural awareness, behaviors, and attitudes. the researcher acted as a participant a...

A central Service layer for the European eLearning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) is the one for the management of members and the provision of collaborational services (Virtual Community Services). Because it is a lot of effort to totally newly (re-)write the collaboration services like e.g. a videoconferencing service, it is much more desirable to take existing applications and just to wrap them...

This paper reviews prior research on individual participation in online communities of practice (CoPs). It examines how the concept of CoP has been applied in IS and what theories have been applied to explain knowledge sharing behaviours in online CoPs. To integrate findings in prior empirical IS studies, the paper drew on literature on relationship marketing to re-conceptualize participation i...