Helping Russia.

Helping Cancer Patients to Fight with Infection

نوتروپنی در صورتی که منجر به شوک عفونی گردد، میتواند باعث مرگ بیمار شود مقابله با عفونت، شامل بررسی دقیق، مراقبت های پیشگیری کننده و مداخله به موقع می باشد. بیماران سرطانی بستری در بیمارستانها، اغلب در معرض خطر عفونت قرار دارند. بویژه اگر احتیاج به درمان شدید با روش های تشخیمی داشته باشند. هرگونه عفونت می تواند تهدیدی برای زندگی بیماران دارای نوتروپنی محسوب شود.

Collective helping and bystander effects in coevolving helping networks.

We study collective helping behavior and bystander effects in a coevolving helping network model. A node and a link of the network represents an agent who renders or receives help and a friendly relation between agents, respectively. A helping trial of an agent depends on relations with other involved agents and its result (success or failure) updates the relation between the helper and the rec...

Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability

Although it has been claimed that people care more about identifiable than statistical victims, demonstrating this “identifiable victim effect” has proven difficult because identification usually provides information about a victim, and people may respond to the information rather than to identification per se. We show that a very weak form of identifiability—determining the victim without prov...

From Russia with Love: The EU, Russia, and Special Relationships

This paper compares the institutions and goals of the USSR, the EU, and the CIS to understand the differing origins and competing tendencies of these alternative models of transnational governance. It then projects those models through history to examine the current relationships of the former Soviet Republics to the EU and the United States. Understanding the historical sources and development...

Helping people help themselves