From Customs to Fashion: Ideologies, Trends, Social Hierarchies

Adaptive Social Hierarchies: From Nature to Networks

Social hierarchies are a common feature of the Animal Kingdom and control access to resources according to the fitness of the individual. We use a similar concept to form an Adaptive Social Hierarchy amongst nodes in a heterogeneous wireless network so that they can discover their role in terms of their base attributes (such as energy or connectivity). Three different methods of forming the hie...

Politeness Orientation in Social Hierarchies in Urdu

The present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of Urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. The researcher took politeness theory of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. To observe politeness of Urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was used as an instrument to...

Fashion\Trends in Web Design

In this paper we describe a preliminary, in-progress, research of fashion\trends in HCI. First, we present the motivation for this research, as this topic has not been methodically researched despite the accelerating pace and growing influence of fashion\trends in modern life. In order to provide appropriate theoretical background, we define and explain the fashion and trend phenomena using res...

The Role of Social Factors on the Fashion Trends (Case of Study: Female Students in Islamic Azad University of Andimeshk)

The fashion and increase of consumers cultural is an important problem. This paper studies the effective Socio-Cultural Factors on the fashion trends among the girl student’s in Andimeshk. About 200 girls in Andimeshk (South west of Iran) were randomly chosen. The research method was survey and correlation with questionnaire. The data were analyzed through SPSS package along with Pearson coeffi...

Hair fashion trends and formaldehyde health risks.