The Internet of Things (IoT) and social networking integration, create a new concept named Social Internet of Things (SIoT) according to which the things are able to autonomously establish social relationships with regard to the owners. Things in SIoT operate according to a service-oriented architecture. There may be misbehaving owners and consequently misbehaving devices that can perform harmf...

Do infants develop meaningful social preferences among novel individuals based on their social group membership? If so, do these social preferences depend on familiarity on any dimension, or on a more specific focus on particular kinds of categorical information? The present experiments use methods that have previously demonstrated infants' social preferences based on language and accent, and t...

P atient education is based on a delicate balance between a suffering individual and a clinician. This professional is supposed to assume a public service duty falling between institutional requirements and the choices of patients. This task is complicated by one indisputable fact: it is impossible to make people do what one wants them to do. In this situation, the ethic considerations may coun...

generally, there are four approaches to social phenomena in soial sciences: the agent-based approach, the structural approach, the functional approach, and the critical realistic approach. these approachs, with respect to their specific interpretation of social phenomena, concentrate on the behavior of agents or on the structural charctristics or on both to arriv at explanations. this article i...

short story is a specific form of narration which can play the role of society corrector in critical societies. sādeq hedāyat and tāmer both show different aspects of their social problems. they magnify issues such as illogical family atmospheres, patriarchy, weak human relationships and consequences of modernity and modernism without having the basis of their acceptance in society and insecure...

Self-management has been a point of discussion among number of researchers. The teacher can manage discipline in the class by employing self-management strategies. Furthermore, it can also help students in managing their behaviors for long periods of time. Organizations need people who are more willing to work and adhere to the requirements on their own. They must understand how they can make b...

The choice of a suitable service provider is an important issue often overlooked in existing architectures. Current systems focus mostly on the service itself, paying little (if at all) attention to the service provider. In the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registries have been proposed as a way to publish and find information about...