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Understanding Jordanian Psychiatric Nurses’ Smoking Behaviors: A Grounded Theory Study
Nursing Research and Practice, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Purpose. Smoking is prevalent in psychiatric facilities among staff and patients. However, there have been few studies of how contextual factors in specific cultures influence rates of smoking and the health promotion role of psychiatric nurses. This paper reports the findings of a classical grounded theory study conducted to understand how contextual ...
Khaldoun M. Aldiabat +2 more
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Grouping Optimization Based on Social Relationships
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Grouping based on social relationships is a complex problem since the social relationships within a group usually form a complicated network. To solve the problem, a novel approach which uses a combined sociometry and genetic algorithm (CSGA) is presented.
Rong-Chang Chen, Sheng-yong Chen
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Towards Measuring Quality of Interaction in Mobile Robotic Telepresence using Sociometric Badges
Paladyn, 2013 The field of mobile robotic telepresence for social communication is in rapid expansion and it is of interest to understand what promotes good interaction.
Kristoffersson Annica +3 more
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Comparative Sociometric Profile Of Regular Alcohol Drinking Adolescents [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical & Clinical Research, 2015 Jacob Moreno defined sociometry as “the inquiry into the evolution and organization of groups and the position of individuals within them”. Every person composes their own group of significant others and the social relations in this dominated by the ...
Georgi Sarov
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The Biology and Natural History of Aphaenogaster rudis
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Workers from the genus Aphaenogaster are among the most abundant ants in the hardwood forests of eastern North America. The biology of these so‐called rudis‐group ant species, including details about their sociometry, productivity, natural history, and behavior, are synthesized here using published and newly collected data. The latter was collected, in
David Lubertazzi, Diana E. Wheeler
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Inflow process of pedestrians to a confined space [PDF]
, 2016 To better design safe and comfortable urban spaces, understanding the nature of human crowd movement is important. However, precise interactions among pedestrians are difficult to measure in the presence of their complex decision-making processes and ...
Boltes, Maik +7 more
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Empirical study of the degrees to which social support, social status and gender affect the academic achievement [PDF]
Современная зарубежная психология, 2015 The article reviews the studies of foreign authors concerning the impact of various factors on academic achievement. The factors under the study are: sociometric status, social support on the side of significant others, gender, support on the side of the
Volkov A.A., Zerkalova E.A.
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Sociometric status and leisure media consumption [PDF]
Национальный психологический журнал, 2018 Background. In the context of mass communication research a special value is placed on the discussion of the connection between using various means of mass communication and their particular features.
Alexander V. Sharikov
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Formalising the multidimensional nature of social networks [PDF]
, 2011 Individuals interact with conspecifics in a number of behavioural contexts or dimensions. Here, we formalise this by considering a social network between n individuals interacting in b behavioural dimensions as a nxnxb multidimensional object.
Barrett, Louise +2 more
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PageRank: Standing on the shoulders of giants
, 2010 PageRank is a Web page ranking technique that has been a fundamental ingredient in the development and success of the Google search engine. The method is still one of the many signals that Google uses to determine which pages are most important. The main
Franceschet, Massimo
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