To improve the personal relations among students the use of community of inquiry method was hypothesized to be effective, especially if the content being learned in this way is Philosophy for Children (P4C). To find support for this hypothesis, a group of 50 female students whose interpersonal relations were below the average was selected and then divided into two subgroups of experimental and ...

It has been found that design creativity is closely related with personal characteristics and design-related abilities. To verify this fact systematically, I inspected personal characteristics and learning styles. Moreover I assessed spatial perceptual ability, constructive perceptual ability and visual reasoning ability as design-related ability. Also, students were received several designrela...

We describe the design and implementation of ReferralWeb, a system for identifying experts on keyword queries and generating a path of social relations by which to contact them. This system models and extracts existing social and professional relationships in the computer science community by mining publicly available documents on the internet. Using similar techniques, experts are also isolate...

This article combines studies of transitivity and homophily in an empirical analysis of personal network integration. Using a national sample of individual’s personal networks, the paper reveals that transitivity Ž . explains a majority of cases of network integration with two important caveats: 1 recent work on networks and social structure points to important structural constraints on persona...

Hierarchies in the correlated forms of power (resources) and status (prestige) are constants that organize human societies. This article reviews relevant social psychological literature and identifies several converging results concerning power and status. Whether rank is chronically possessed or temporarily embodied, higher ranks create psychological distance from others, allow agency by the h...

We describe the design and implementation of ReferralWeb, a system for identifying experts on keyword queries and generating a path of social relations by which to contact them. This system models and extracts existing social and professional relationships in the computer science community by mining publicly available documents on the internet. Using similar techniques, experts are also isolate...

I have been chairman of the Joint Consultants Committee/ Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services Independent Practice Subcommittee for six years. But, as I have now retired from the National Health Service and private practice, I handed over this role to Mr John Chawner last month. I feel strongly about the importance and legitimacy of private practice in this country and think that thi...