Background: The new phenomenon of Internet addiction among teenagers and young adults is one of the modern addictions in industrial and post-industrial societies. The purpose of this research was to predict the Internet addiction based on the personality characteristics of high school students in Kerman. Methods: This research was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population in...

Many techniques are available for elicitation and refinement of requirements [5]. However, these require face-to-face interactions that are expensive in time and often require co-location. For these reasons, crucial interactions between end-users and requirements analysts may not even happen. In these situations, other techniques that do not require face-to-face interactions, such as questionna...

Groups generally perform better when they are able to establish a high level of group cohesion. It is commonly accepted that this status can be reached by establishing a positive social emotional environment in the group. In the field of Group Support Systems (GSS) many studies tried to compare the establishment of social emotional interactions among members in face-to-face and computer-mediate...

How does internal processing contribute to visual pattern perception? By modeling visual search performance, we estimated internal signal and noise relevant to perception of curvature, a basic feature important for encoding of three-dimensional surfaces and objects. We used isolated, sparse, crowded, and face contexts to determine how internal curvature signal and noise depended on image crowdi...

Using computer simulations we study how a corona of polymer molecules grafted to cellulose nanocrystal aggregate (CNA) particles influences the interaction between pairs of parallel CNAs. The resulting distance and orientation (face-to-face versus edge-to-edge) dependence is very rich and counterintuitive. Although the unperturbed polymer corona assumes cylindrical symmetry relatively quickly a...

Those who feel better able to express their “true selves” in Internet rather than face-to-face interaction settings are more likely to form close relationships with people met on the Internet (McKenna, Green, & Gleason, this issue). Building on these correlational findings from survey data, we conducted three laboratory experiments to directly test the hypothesized causal role of differential s...

OBJECTIVES Pharmacists and general practitioners (GPs) face an increasing expectation to collaborate interprofessionally on a number of healthcare issues, including medication non-adherence. This study aimed to propose a model of interprofessional collaboration within the context of identifying and improving medication non-adherence in primary care. SETTING Primary care; Sydney, Australia. ...