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The Origins of Fashion. [PDF]

open access: yesEvol Anthropol
d'Errico F, Rigaud S.
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Secure personal network

2008 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2008
Recently, Personal Networks (PNs) have been focused in supporting the userpsilas business and private activities without jeopardizing privacy and security of the users and their data. The support in business and private activities will take place through the userpsilas own personal network consisting of a core Personal Area Network (PAN) extended with ...
Anggraeni, Puri Novelti   +2 more
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Personal Networks: An Overlay Network of Wireless Personal Area Networks and 3G Networks

2006 Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, 2006
A personal network is an overlay network which builds on different wireless networking technologies. This overlay network is responsible of glueing the different wireless networking technologies. In this paper, we consider the cooperation of two key technologies to realize a personal network, namely, wireless personal area network and universal mobile ...
Anthony C. C. Lo   +4 more
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From Personal Area Networks to Personal Networks: A User Oriented Approach

Wireless Personal Communications, 2002
This paper introduces Personal Networks (PN), a new concept related to the emerging field of pervasive computing that extends the concept of a Personal Area Network (PAN). The latter refers to a space of small coverage (less than 10 m) around a person where ad-hoc communication occurs, typically between portable and mobile computing devices such as ...
Niemegeers, I.G.M.M.   +1 more
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Personal Networks

2021
Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the influence of social media, and much more.
Bernice Pescosolido, Edward B. Smith
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Personality and personal network type

Personality and Individual Differences, 2008
The association between personality and personal relationships is mostly studied within dyadic relationships. We examined these variables within the context of personal network types. We used Latent Class Analysis to identify groups Of Students with similar role relationships with three focal figures.
Doeven-Eggens, Lilian   +4 more
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Personal Networks and the Schizophrenias

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1980
It is likely that certain elements in the individual's current social environment act causally in the onset of schizophrenia. The construct known as ‘social support’ has recently been invoked as one such element which, when deficient, may be a causal factor. The evidence for this is unsatisfactory and likely to remain so.
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The Neuroscience of a Person Network

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2007
In their article, Farah and Heberlein (2007) argue that evidence from neuroscience may help us understand why a specific and non-arbitrary definition of personhood is so difficult.
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