The current study aimed to examine the relationship between personality traits and interpersonal states. Eighty undergraduate participants were administered trait inventories, then 40 dyads video recorded doing collaborative tasks. These recordings coded for moment-to-moment communion agency using Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics. Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling was used u...

A tribute briefly describing Raymond Bradley’s gratitude to David Loye for his friendship, support, and mentorship. Their relationship began through a mutual acquaintance, the world-renowned neuropsychologist Karl Pribram, extended over four decades before David’s passing.

This study examined an online professional development program designed to support meaningful acquaintance and reduce stereotypes prejudices among teachers from different cultures in Israeli society. The rationale of the was based on premise that indirect contact might improve intergroup relations diverse societies. progress gradually, starting basic leading a deeper acquaintance, using variety...

Dysfunction of pancreatic islet beta cells underlies both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and appears to result in part from the local release of proinflammatory cytokines. An improved understanding of the mechanisms that mediate islet responsiveness to proinflammatory cytokines may therefore expand our knowledge of the role of cytokine signaling in the development of diabetes, providing potential n...

BACKGROUND Decision makers often assume they know the public's standpoints and see themselves as capable of representing them. The aim of this study is to assess the level of acquaintance that senior decision-makers in the Israeli health system have concerning the priorities of the public in whose name they act. METHODS A phone survey was conducted with a representative population sample and ...

1 University of Antwerp, Belgium, Epidemiology and Social Medicine 2 Service public de Wallonie 3 Federal Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Brussels Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, VUB, Brussels Epidemiology and Social Medicine, UA, Antwerp 4 Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium 5 IRSSESP, Université Catholique de Louvain 6 Scientific Institute of Publi...

We introduce an agent-based acquaintance model in which social links are created by processes in which there is no explicit homophily. In spite of the homogeneous nature of the social interactions, highly-clustered social networks can arise. The crucial feature of our model is that of variable transitive interactions. Namely, when an agent introduces two unconnected friends, the rate at which a...

PROSA tries to simulate the evolution of human relationships from simple acquaintance to friendship and partnership. Our target is to obtain a self– reconfiguring P2P system which possesses some of the desirable features of social communities. We show that PROSA naturally evolves into a small–world network, with an high clustering coefficient and a relly short average path length.

Basing on the acquaintance with anatomy and physiology of the skin, the authors show that the emphasis placed on the functional aspect of human health, introduced by the Penal Code of 6 June 1997, should change the way contusions are subsumed under provisions of the aforementioned code.