in the form of a series of hypothesized relation-ships between different dimensions of social capital and the main mechanisms and processes necessary for the creation of intellectual capital. Kogut and Zander recently have proposed "that a firm be understood a s a social commu-nity specializing

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these multi-faceted role-specific interactions, and, more interestingly, discover the latent organization or hierarchy of social communities. We propose a hierarchical Mixed Membership Stochastic Blockmodel to model the generation of hierarchies in social commu-nities, selective membership of actors

, or just to meet together to play basketball). Cellular phones and more in general mobile devices are currently widely used and represent a big opportunity to support social commu-nities. In this paper, we present a general architecture for multi-agent systems accessible via mobile devices (cellular phones

Abstract: This paper supports the case for the use of mobile/wireless technologies to support community based health workers (CBHWs) in Africa. Many international efforts are focussed on improving healthcare in Africa in a cost-effective way, and the potential benefit for Africa in both the relief

of this article is to present some preliminary findings from the first and intro-ductory part of a qualitative study among ex-mental patients. The two main objectives of this study are: 1. to describe qualitatively and sociologically the social commu-nity of the users at the centre; and 2. to describe

by the users in a mobile social commu-nity. Our framework, is founded on an in-situ data storage model, where captured objects remain local on their owner’s smartphones and searches then take place over a novel lookup structure we compute dynamically, coined the Multi-Objective Query Routing Tree (MO-QRT). Our

applicable to rural settings, including integration of social, commu-nity-based, and medical services. The article concludes with a case study from a rural case-management model in Illinois that has evolved over time and with various rural populations. Health care in rural America has been particularly

The social impact of scientific research has been a key area of interest in the academic commu-nity (European Comission, 2008; 2010). The literature on this subject has advanced considerably over the last two decades. However, despite the considerable number of studies conducted, an

-stand the linkages between commu-nities or institutions. The concept of social capital has been directly linked to broader concepts such as social cohesion, democracy, economic wellbeing and sustainabil-ity. It is a concept that has attracted