The diffusion of social media is having profound impacts on the relationship between government and citizens in many areas of government service provision. In the area of healthcare the emergence of new venues of interaction between patients and between patients and doctors is challenging the government-established digital channels for healthcare service provision. In this paper we present a cl...

These developments with respect to the structure of earnings have occurred during a twenty-year period in which, depending on which price index is utilized, the average level of real wages has been either constant or falling slightly. Thus, gains for one group of workers (college graduates, women, persons in their forties and fifties, and those in the highest percentiles of their relevant wage ...

In this study, we examine the social networking practices of the 100 largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. More specifically, we develop a comprehensive classification scheme to delineate these organizations' use of Facebook as a stakeholder engagement tool. We find that there are 5 primary categories of Facebook"statuses", which can be aggregated into three key dimensions -"inf...

1. Preliminaries. Only bounded operators on a Hilbert space § of elements x will be considered. If A is self-ad joint with the spectral resolution (1) A=f\dE(k), and if ^a = £>aC4) denotes the set of elements x for which ||E(X)#|| is an absolutely continuous function of X, then § 0 is a subspace; cf. [2, p. 240], [3, p. 436] and [6, p. 104]. If £ = £«, then A is called absolutely continuous. Th...

Self-monitoring and social comparison are theoretically related, as the former involves searching the environment for information to inform changes in one’s own behavior and the latter involves seeking out social information for the purposes of comparison. We examined the relation between these two constructs, while simultaneously examining how scale choice for self-monitoring can greatly influ...

We consider the imbedding inequality ‖ ‖ Lr(R d ) ≤ Sr,n,d ‖ ‖Hn(Rd); H n(R) is the Sobolev space (or Bessel potential space) of L2 type and (integer or fractional) order n. We write down upper bounds for the constants Sr,n,d, using an argument previously applied in the literature in particular cases. We prove that the upper bounds computed in this way are in fact the sharp constants if (r = 2 ...

Content analysis was used to study interactions in an online health community support group relying on discussion forum software as a medium for discussions. We found that the overwhelming majority of the threads considered are on topic, which indicates that the discussion forum does contribute to the group's mission. By applying existing scales to measure the complexity of interactions from a ...

The research-on infant speech has until recentlybeen mainly concerned with technical problems of measurement and with the establishment of normative sequences of speech development for the young child. As a clinical instrument these norms look extremely promising; they offer standardizations obtained from a large number of cases on the basis of which one may measure deviations in a manner simil...