Is there a friends-and-neighbors effect for party leaders?

Heterogeneous Friends-and-Neighbors Voting∗

Previous work shows that candidates receive more personal votes, frequently called “friends-and-neighbors” votes, in areas where they have local attachments. This article examines heterogeneity in friends-and-neighbors voting near candidates’ counties of birth and residence in U.S. statewide executive office elections. Using two large datasets, I estimate how the magnitude of the friends-and-ne...

Is There a “Party” in Your Genes?

Friends and neighbors on the Web

The Internet has become a rich and large repository of information about individuals. The links and text on a user's homepage to the mailing lists the user subscribes to are reflections of social interactions a user has in the real world. We devise techniques to mine this information in order to predict relationships between individuals. Further we show that some pieces of information are bette...

General Anxiety and Dental Fear: Is There A Relationship?

Introduction: Anxiety is an emotional state that helps healthy people defend themselves against threats. Dental anxiety is referred to a patient's specific response to stressful dental practices. The prevalence of dental anxiety is estimated to be between 3-43%. The relation between dental caries and dental anxiety is well understood, which happen as the result...

Salivary and Serum Ferritin Levels: Is There a Correlation?

Background and Aim: Blood samples are used for the diagnosis of many diseases. Serum ferritin level is known to be a marker of anemia and iron overload disorders. However, blood collection is an invasive method. Saliva, as a bio-fluid, contains a va-riety of important components that are successfully used for assessment of body health. The use of saliva samples for ferritin evaluation can be re...