introduction: social capital is multidimensional and it is about the value of social networks and relations between people. social capital refers to the relationships that forms the quality and quantity of the society’s social interactions. this study was designed to determine the relationship between social capital and faculty member’s job satisfaction in shiraz medical school. method: social ...

BACKGROUND International documents on ethical conduct in clinical research have in common the principle that potential harms to research participants must be proportional to anticipated benefits. The anticipated benefits that can justify human research consist of direct benefits to the research participant, and societal benefits, also called social value. In first-in-human research, no direct b...

Different laws have been proposed for the value of a social network. According to Metcalfe’s law, the value of a network is proportional to n where n is number of users of the network, whereas Odlyzko et al propose on heuristic grounds that the value is proportional to n log n, which is the Zipf’s law. In this paper we have examined scale free, small world and random social networks to determin...