<i>Society and Solitude, Twelve Chapters</i> (review)

Developing the IBM i Virtual community: iSociety

Internet-based virtual communities have become an important mode of communication among people all over the world (Eschenbrenner et al., 2008). Scott and Johnson (2005) found that some of the most heavily visited sites on the World Wide Web are either fully or in part online communities. These communities allow groups of people to utilize many to many interactions as a mode for sharing experien...

Mistakenly seeking solitude.

Connecting with others increases happiness, but strangers in close proximity routinely ignore each other. Why? Two reasons seem likely: Either solitude is a more positive experience than interacting with strangers, or people misunderstand the consequences of distant social connections. To examine the experience of connecting to strangers, we instructed commuters on trains and buses to connect w...

Aneurysmal bone cysts. Review of twelve cases.

Correlation between Gleason scores in needle biopsy and corresponding radical prostatectomy specimens. A twelve-year review.

Background: Presence of discordance between the Gleason score on needle biopsy and the score of radical prostatectomy specimen is common and universal. In this study, we determined the accuracy of Gleason grading of biopsies in predicting histological grading of radical prostatectomy specimens and the degree of overgrading and undergrading of prostatic adenocarcinoma i...

Into the Desert: Solitude in Culture and Literature

Most studies of solitude have focused on the modern individualized sense of solitude, located or originating in urbanized Western cultures where solitude is seen as a companion to urban modernity. In this perspective the larger historical and cultural context goes almost unnoticed together with the fact that the preoccupation with solitude, in various forms and functions, has been around for a ...