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Anorexia and Young Womens’ Personal Networks: Size, Structure, and Kinship [PDF]
Anorexia is a serious threat to young women’s wellbeing worldwide. The effectiveness of mental health intervention and treatment is often evaluated on the basis of changes in the personal networks; however, the development of such measures for young ...
Oxana Mikhaylova, Sofia Dokuka
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Uniting computers, mobile phones, and personal devices is the goal of Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN), which is meant to become a major part of future mobile communication networks. Personal Networks (PNs) extend the local scope of PANs by addressing virtual personal environments that span over a variety of communication architectures, PN is seen
Prasad, Ramjee, Ramjee Prasad
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Theorizing "cultural signatures" in worldwide personal networks. [PDF]
Background This paper advances the theory of “cultural signatures” in personal networks by integrating Goodenough’s concept of propriospect—the individual’s internalized model of culture—with a ...
José Luis Molina +5 more
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“WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!”: AN INQUIRY ON THE PERSONAL NETWORKS OF SELECTED OLDER ADULTS IN POST-HAIYAN DISASTER [PDF]
We have seen a considerable increase in the number of natural disasters worldwide. There are hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides, drought, tsunami among others that have affected us in recent years.
Reggy Capacio Figer
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Siblings as Overlooked Potential for Care and Support Across Households and Borders
The growing numbers of Lithuanian families living across borders have prompted the reflection on family relations through the lens of the need for care and support of dependent children and elderly parents. The authors of this article expand the analysis
Irma Budginaitė‐Mačkinė +1 more
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Searching for intermediaries An iterative structural deconstruction of personal networks [PDF]
Sociologists attempt to compare personal networks in order to identify explanatory factors that mayindicatedifferences betweenthem, aboveand beyond individual life histories.
Bidart Claire +2 more
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Personalized Home-Networks [PDF]
The paper provides details of a home-networking architecture based on an enhanced residential gateway. Initially the need for mechanisms allowing user-dependent network behavior is described and afterwards details of an initial implementation are provided in terms of architectural description, enabling technical components and interaction.
José Soler, Michael Gandy
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Objective: We investigate the relation between having online and offline personal networks and employment for male and female migrants in the Netherlands.
Başak Bilecen, Verena Seibel
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Loneliness and social isolation among young and late middle-age adults: Associations with personal networks and social participation. [PDF]
Child ST, Lawton L.
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Network Neuroscience and Personality [PDF]
AbstractPersonality and individual differences originate from the brain. Despite major advances in the affective and cognitive neurosciences, however, it is still not well understood how personality and single personality traits are represented within the brain.
Sebastian Markett +2 more
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