News tagged with traditional communities


Video game Everquest 2 provides new way to study human behavior

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A research study by a University of Minnesota computer scientist and colleagues from across the country shows that online, interactive gaming communities are now so massive that they mirror traditional communities.





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Guide offers smart growth help for coastal and waterfront planners and developers

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NOAA, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, the International City/County Management Association and Rhode Island Sea Grant, has released a guide to bring smart growth to coastal and waterfront communities.


Online educational empowerment

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online learning communities flourish best if individual learners have self-governance. That is the conclusion of a US study published in the International Journal of Web Based Communities.


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Study says 'middle class' coral reef fish feel the economic squeeze

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The economy isn't just squeezing the middle class on land, it's also affecting fish.


Balance between traditional activities, tourism key to sustaining coastal Alaska communities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When Lee Cerveny arrived in coastal southeast Alaska in 1999, she intended to interview local women about their relationship with the natural environment. She soon found, however, that women she met were more interested in ...


Britain with high hopes for digital TV

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created Jan 19, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traditional television broadcast services are not necessarily the best way to deliver interactive television content, the British government said Thursday.


Internet, tolerance spark change in urban gay communities

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gay communities – such as clubs, bars, events and neighborhoods – appear to be changing worldwide in light of several key factors, including Internet dating and achievement of civil rights, according to new University of ...


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A foamy drink and the future of food

Biology /

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Michael Pollan’s recent bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma revealed to millions of readers the centrality, and dangers, of commodity corn in the modern industrialized agriculture system as developed in the ...


Local elite rule over small villages in Indonesia

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Dutch-sponsored researcher Y. Argo Twikromo has investigated how the local ruling elite have retained their political control over the local population. He has tried to understand and analyse the dynamic processes of state ...


Arts good for the psyche

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Youth who do arts are psychologically better off than those who do not, a new study from Victoria University shows.


Community provides essential support to military families

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The deployment of military personnel to active war zones, which involves issues of separation, time away from home, and eventual reunion, increases the vulnerability of their families, The heavy reliance on National Guard ...



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