BACKGROUND Social networks influence health behavior, including tobacco use and cessation. To date, little is known about whether and how the networks of online smokers and non-smokers may differ, or the potential implications of such differences with regards to intervention efforts. Understanding how social networks vary by smoking status could inform public health efforts to accelerate cessat...

Most of recent research works on analyzing wireless LAN (WLAN) traces focused on individual user behaviors [1], [2], [3]. These previous works provide good understandings on WLAN users, and have made vast amount of WLAN traces available to the research community (e.g. from [1], [2], [3], [6]). However, we know from daily lives that we do not make random movement decisions. Usually, WLAN users s...

Close friendships become important at middle-school age and are unexplored in adolescents born prematurely. The study aimed to characterize friendship behaviors of formerly preterm infants at age 12 and explore similarities and differences between preterm and full-term peers on dyadic friendship types. From the full sample of N=186, one hundred sixty-six 12-year-old adolescents (40 born full te...

Adolescents' peer experiences may have significant associations with biological stress-response systems, adding to or reducing allostatic load. This study examined relational victimization as a unique contributor to reactive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses as well as friendship quality and behavior as factors that may promote HPA recovery following a stressor. A total of 62 ...

This research aims to determine the metaphorical perceptions of primary school 4th-grade students about friendship. The study group study, which was carried out within scope phenomenology design, one qualitative designs, consisted 144 4th grade studying in a public Istanbul Esenler 2021-2022 academic year. data were obtained through semi-structured interview form (Friendship is like ……… Because...

Abstract The aim of this article is to examine how markets enable companionship be disconnected from the concept friendship thus enabling an illusion without demands friendship. As a crucial early relationship for children, particularly germane world education. It recognises previous lack philosophical attention idea companionship—a key factor in friendship—and that omission contributes clarity...

The social Web is going mobile and needs support for friendship management in a distributed manner, while privacy concerns mandate con guring the public visibility of one's friends. In this paper we leverage existing Web standards to describe a simple P2P protocol for establishing, enforcing, and revoking hidden friendship relations and report on an implementation for a mobile platform. We exam...