Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher: Methods Inquiry, by Jennifer Cyr (2019), is an essential research tool first-time researcher who utilizing focus groups. The book breaks information down into digestible bites and spirals material reiterating major points to ensure understanding. For a beginning researcher, this thorough resource guidance in establishing effective questions yield ...

Studies on stress and its impacts on animals are very important in many fields of science, including animal science, because various stresses influence animal production and animal welfare. In particular, the social stresses within animal groups have profound impact on animals, with the potential to induce abnormal behaviors and health problems. In humans, social stress induces several health p...

Patients and caregivers often seek help and support through online forums for their ailments. In many health forums, users can not only participate in existing, sitedefined user groups but also initiate their own groups. To better understand the mechanism and usefulness of such user-created groups, we comparatively studied their characteristics against those of site-defined groups, based on an ...