How is social etiquette performed when offline interpersonal interactions are mediated online? Sixty semi-structured interviews with WeChat users, China's most popular media platform, show that the app's technical designs facilitated a set of online rules which reproduced those acquaintance communities. Three dimensions were considered and observed: respect, elegance, tidiness. Users honored fa...

Recent inapproximability results of Sly (2010), together with an approximation algorithm presented by Weitz (2006) establish a beautiful picture for the computational complexity of approximating the partition function of the hard-core model. Let λc(T∆) denote the critical activity for the hard-model on the infinite ∆-regular tree. Weitz presented an FPTAS for the partition function when λ < λc(...

Nurse educators yearn to teach in zestful workplaces where faculty and administrators work and play well together. Even when their interactions with professional colleagues are stressful, many still believe that zestful academic workplaces are possible. How can educators bridge the gap when a zestful ideal becomes a stressful reality? Since some report that the quality of their professional rel...