Academic Articles & Research Papers

Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Social Networks and Brain Aging in Community-dwelling Older Adults in Japan: The NEIGE Study.

Educational intervention can rewire village social networks.

Exploration of the population size of men who have sex with men in Hainan colleges: A cross-sectional study based on geographical social network App.

Are quantitative targets for social network size and interaction frequency appropriate for public health guidelines on social connection? Evidence from loneliness and related mental health outcomes.

Bridging material culture networks and social networks in archaeology.

Identification and structural analysis of the interactional effect of the change drivers on the field of education

Due to its wide range and importance, the education system has very important and complex elements that if we neglect to monitor their future variations, it can lead to undeniable and profound damages to the results that are expected to be ...

Expertise, Knowledge, and Resilience in #AcademicTwitter: Enacting Resilience-Craft in a Community of Practice

Online communities of practice are a useful professional development space, where members can exchange information, aggregate expertise, and find support. These communities have grown in popularity within higher education—especially on soci...

Knowledge, attitude and human papillomavirus vaccination among market women in North-Central Nigeria

Abstract Non-vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has serious implications on population health. This study therefore investigates the awareness and knowledge of HPV and its vaccines, attitude towards HPV vaccines, and adoption ra...

Implementing media literacy in the classroom

Social networks use a variety of models from the spectrum of web technologies. These tools were designed for entertainment and communication purposes, and the most commonly used among students are the social media tools. Knowing this, teach...

Interpersonal communication regarding pregnancy-related services: friends versus health professionals as conduits for information

Abstract Background Social network characteristics influence a wide range of health behaviors but few studies examine the relationship between social network characteristics and pregnancy-related outcomes. Methods Using a baseline survey fr...

LPGRI: A Global Relevance-Based Link Prediction Approach for Multiplex Networks

The individuals of real-world networks participate in various types of connections, each forming a layer in multiplex networks. Link prediction is an important problem in multiplex network analysis owing to its wide range of practical appli...

Geography of Innovation

The geography of innovation refers to the spatial clustering of innovative activity and the advantages conferred by co-location. Economic actors realize gains when located to places with abundant resources, well-developed social networks an...

Options for Modeling Social Rational-Value Networks: Congruence Issues

The article introduces a new concept designed to describe the social and sociotechnical processes that were triggered by digital transformation and, in their turn, resulted in Industry 5.0. The author described and modelled egocentric, comm...

Feminist Gerontology and Old Men

This article outlines feminist gerontology and shows how its focus on power relations lends insight into the lives of those people disadvantaged by them as well as the people privileged by social inequalities. To illustrate the latter, I di...

Economics of International Business

Economics of International Business sets out a new agenda for international business research. Mark Casson asserts that it is time to move the subject on from sterile debates about transaction cost economies and resource-based theories of t...

The heterogeneous herd: Drivers of close‐contact variation in African buffalo and implications for pathogen invasion

Abstract Many infectious pathogens are shared through social interactions, and examining host connectivity has offered valuable insights for understanding patterns of pathogen transmission across wildlife species. African buffalo are social...

The “black box” of treatment: Patients’ perspective on what works in opioid maintenance treatment for opioid dependence

Abstract Background A lack of conceptual modeling of how the components of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) for opioid dependence (OD) work causes it to occasionally be labeled the “black-box” of treatment. This study had a two-fold objec...

Scrolling and Self: How Self-Esteem and Physical Activity Shape the Effects of Intagram Use on Eating Behavior in Universitary Students

Introduction The use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) has been continuously increasing in recent years [1], contributing to the rise of significant behavioral and psychological issues, especially when SNS are used as a coping mechanism f...

Structure of Spatial Correlation Network and Influencing Factors of Urban-Rural Integration in China

Urban-rural integration is a necessary way to realize the strategy of rural revitalization in the new era, and exploring the characteristics of the spatial correlation network of China's urban-rural integration and its formation mechanism i...

VEJEZ EN EDAD EXTREMA. UN ESTUDIO DE ETNOGERONTOLOGÍA SOCIAL

El trabajo busca ejemplificar, a través de seis estudios de caso, cómo viven la vejez los adultos mayores indígenas zoques cuando, producto de la edad avanzada, la enfermedad se convierte en insidiosa, multifactorial, su salud se diezma y e...