Transnationalism and Social Work Education [PDF]
Transnational movements, networks, and relationships are everywhere in this “world on the move” (Williams & Graham, 2014, p. i1). Transnational peoples maintain relationships of interdependence and support with families and communities in their places of
Betts A. +10 more
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Social working memory: neurocognitive networks and directions for future research. [PDF]
Navigating the social world requires the ability to maintain and manipulate information about people's beliefs, traits, and mental states. We characterize this capacity as social working memory (SWM).
Lieberman, Matthew D, Meyer, Meghan L
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Directed generosity and network formation: network dimension matters [PDF]
We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a
D'Exelle, Ben, Riedl, Arno
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COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN PRENATAL AND POSTPARTUM MOTHERS [PDF]
This study investigates the communication patterns of prenatal and postpartum mothers and their influence on health outcomes, self-efficacy, and social support networks.
Isaiah AGBO +2 more
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Integrating Decision Support and Social Networks
We elaborate on the shifting of decision support systems towards social networking, which is based on the concepts of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technology.
Francisco Antunes, João Paulo Costa
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The measurement of social support: The social support network inventory
HE PLURALISTIC OR BIOPYSCHOSOCIAL model of illness acknowledges that social factors play a role in the development of physical and emotional illness. Or, in Cassel’s language, that there is a “contribution of the social environment to host resistance.“’ Research continues to explore those social variables which directly or indirectly contribute to ...
J A, Flaherty, F M, Gaviria, D S, Pathak
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Social Network Supported Process Recommender System [PDF]
Process recommendation technologies have gained more and more attention in the field of intelligent business process modeling to assist the process modeling. However, most of the existing technologies only use the process structure analysis and do not take the social features of processes into account, while the process modeling is complex and ...
Yanming Ye, Jianwei Yin, Yueshen Xu
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SOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORKS – THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE IN DEALING WITH DIFFICULT SITUATIONS [PDF]
The main purpose of the article is to show social support of people with disabilities from a structural perspective. This perspective shows the relationship between the structure of social networks of people with disabilities and the actions they take ...
Dorota Żuchowska-Skiba
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Subjective Perception of Disease and Community Health Services. An Exploratory Research at Hospice Casa Speranţei Braşov [PDF]
This article proposes a two-dimensional approach to a current topic in the sociology of health and disease: the relationship between illness and social services providing support to patients and their families.
CODRINA ŞANDRU
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Networks of Care among Families with Internationally Adopted Children in Spain
This study examines the relevance of informal support networks in adoptive parenting (“networks of care”). We try to go beyond the potential difficulties and specific stressors involved in International Adoption (IA) processes and the relevance of the ...
Jorge Grau Rebollo +1 more
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