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Peer Support

Healthcare Quarterly, 2016
The Mental Health Commission of Canada defines peer support as "a supportive relationship between people who have a lived experience in common … in relation to a mental health challenge or illness … related to their own mental health or that of a loved one" (Sunderland et al. 2013: 11).
Cheryl, Forchuk, Michelle, Solomon, Tazim, Viran   +2 more
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Support for resilient Peer-to-Peer gaming

Computer Networks, 2007
In areas such as Massively-Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), the conventional centralized server model does not scale with the sheer number of simultaneous clients that need to be supported. P2P architectures are increasingly being considered as replacements for traditional client-server architectures in MMOGs. A distributed P2P architecture that uses '
Samphel Norden, Katherine Guo
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Supporting peer-to-peer computing with FlexiNet

CCGrid 2003. 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2003. Proceedings., 2003
Formation of suitable overlay-network topologies that are able to reflect the structure of the underlying network-infrastructure, has rarely been addressed by peer-to-peer applications so far. Often, peer-to-peer protocols restrain to purely random formation of their overlay-network.
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In need of peer support

Nursing Standard, 1991
I was interested to read Caroline Hiscox's study on stress and its management and the formation of support groups (Nursing Standard February 13).
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Peer support

2017
Mutual aid between individuals facing similar adversities has probably always existed. Relying on those who have already gone through the experience, seeking resources from those who have succeeded in overcoming obstacles, are common reflexes. Embodied in a self-help philosophy, the various practices of peer support concern individuals who are ...
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Challenges faced by mental health peer support workers: Peer support from the peer supporter's point of view.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2012
This study aimed to identify the various challenges encountered by peer support workers in Western Australia in the course of their work and to identify possible solutions to those challenges.We used the nominal group technique to collect and analyze the data.The main challenge encountered by participants was a lack of understanding of the peer support
Vivien, Kemp, Anthony R, Henderson
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Supporting VCR in Peer-to-Peer Video-On-Demand

2007 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 2007
Video-on-demand (VOD) is an interactive multimedia service, which delivers video content to subscribers (users). We propose a scheme of P2P VOD supporting VCR interactivities. By mining associations inside a video, the segments requested in VCR interactivities are accurately predicted based on the information collected through gossips.
Yuan He 0004, Yunhao Liu 0001
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Mobile Peer Support in Diabetes

2011
As in other domains, there has been unprecedented growth in diabetesrelated social media in the past decade. Although there is not yet enough evidence for the clinical benefits of patient-to-patient dialogue using emergent social media, patient empowerment through easier access to information has been proven to foster healthy lifestyles, and to delay ...
Taridzo Chomutare, Eirik Årsand, Gunnar Hartvigsen   +2 more
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