Contacts of Science with Social Problems

Satisfaction with Social Contacts of Older Europeans

This paper analyses the determinants of an important component of well-being among individuals aged 50 years or older in eleven European countries: satisfaction with social contacts. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and anchoring vignettes to correct for potential differences in responses scales across countries and socio-demographic groups. On average, old...

Patients with Schizophrenia and Social Contacts

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia have severe problems with personal and social relations which affect their quality of life. AIM The aim of the paper was to monitor personal and social relations in patients with schizophrenia and to find out the differences regarding socio-demographic characteristics and ambulatory and day hospital treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS The investigation inc...

Social science. Computational social science.

Experimenting with Politics SOCIAL SCIENCE

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A Numerical Method for Friction Problems with Multiple Contacts

Friction problems involving "dry" or "static" friction can be difficult to solve numerically due to the existence of discontinuities in the differential equations appearing in the righthand side. Conventional methods only give first-order accuracy at best; some methods based on stiff solvers can obtain high order accuracy. The previous method of the author [16] is extended to deal with friction...