The focus of this article is to explore how regional academic networks, including balanced global and local relationships, can contribute to the development of science, technology, and science studies and area studies in Asia. On the one hand, local scholars can employ global connections to pursue continuous collaborative academic activities from a region to the world, to learn various informat...

in the almost new literature of social capital, the concept has mainly been considered domestic, while we can find social capital beyond state borders. in this article social capital has been connected to international relations through micro and macro aspects. the effect of information technology on social capital is then mentioned on both domestic and transnational scales. information technol...

this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of schema therapy in the treatment of social anxiety disorder. method: the research method was a single-case experimental design with multiple baselines. five clients were selected by purposive sampling method. they were received 20 individual sessions based on young's schema therapy model. the social phobia inventory (spin), liebowitz social anxi...

Interactions with other people can change how a person feels about themselves and their situation. This is a basic tenet of much previous work on research as diverse as social network, psychology, and management. Studying these changes previously has been extremely laborious due to the necessity of employing surveys, human observers, or interviews. These methods also mostly preclude observing h...

network scale-up is an indirect method for estimating the size of hidden, hard-to-count or high risk populations. social network size estimation is the first step in this method. the present study was conducted with the purpose of estimating the social network size of the tehran province residents and its determinants.maximum likelihood estimation was applied to estimate people's network sizes ...

background and aim:the aim of the present study was to study the relation between social connectedness, and quality attachment to parents and adults. method: in order to accomplish the stated goal, 120 college students were selected by means of random sampling. adult attachment scale, measure of childhood attachment to each parent, and scale of keen connectedness were given to participants to c...