BACKGROUND The diagnosis of cancer and subsequent surgery represent a life-threatening and stressful experience with several factors relating to the patient's process of adaptation. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine adaptation status and related factors in patients who have been diagnosed with and undergone surgery for gastrointestinal tract cancer. METHODS The...

BACKGROUND researches about the relationship between language, cognition and socialization have evolved since the 70s. Language mediates social development allowing the individual to participate in social situations that include balanced communicative exchanges. AIM to assess the effectiveness of the Social-Communicative Adaptation Protocol in two groups of children and adolescents with autis...

In recent years much progress has been made towards understanding the selective forces involved in the evolution of social behaviour including conflicts over reproduction among group members. Here, I argue that an important additional step necessary for advancing our understanding of the resolution of potential conflicts within insect societies is to consider the genetics of the behaviours invo...

Information technology applications have to be adapted for meaningful dependable social mind to mind communication needs and purposes concerning strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) risks. For successful adaptation it seems to be important to dichotomize the mechanistic equipment participation in communication from analogous social understanding of the conveyed meaning intention. ...

Two mechanisms have attracted considerable attention from researchers studying the e¤ects of income on happiness: adaptation and social comparison. In this paper we study both mechanisms using a panel of British households. Besides dealing with the UK case in detail, the paper contributes to the literature by considering the two mechanisms together and testing for them both separately and joint...