When does saying no to a helping request hurt person's influence? Across five studies, when someone was asked for help, had two opposing effects on their actual and perceived influence by increasing dominance, but decreasing prestige. The cost of providing help moderated these effects. Overall, refusing decreased little time, effort, or money, compared both agreeing control condition. This effe...

BACKGROUND International travellers are at risk of travel-related, vaccine-preventable diseases. More data are needed on the proportion of travellers who refuse vaccines during a pre-travel health consultation and their reasons for refusing vaccines. METHODS We analyzed data on travellers seen for a pre-travel health consultation from July 2012 through June 2014 in the Global TravEpiNet (GTEN...

Abstract Social work in Brazil advocates a radical and critical model of social theorisation practice. This article explores the Brazilian theoretical practice model, identifying profession as being vortex Covid-19, increasing state economic austerity, attacks on previously hard-won progressive policy inequality precarity. provides challenging environment. The professional re-conceptualisation ...

The study aims to identify the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and its impact on Egypt Sudan. This is based qualitative method, reached results most important were that Egyptians feel they are being targeted in their national security, intervention of regional international countries help Ethiopia build dam an attack Egyptian security. considered a threat water security threatens source which f...

Increasing regulation may soon cost forensic patients the opportunity to benefit from participating in research. A wise preventive strategy is the institutional use of quality assurance and related processes for regulating its internal research. Candilis and colleagues provide abundant useful information for this purpose. Additional models to consider include a centralized Institutional Review ...

Tracking with a discriminative classifier becomes popular recently. The online updating makes it easy to adapt to target appearance variations. However, this also brings drifting problem. It’s necessary to find a tracking method with strong adaptivity and anti-drifting ability. In this paper, an online semi-supervised boosting method is proposed at first, and based on it, we propose a novel tra...