the use of social network sites (snss) has been booming in the world and it represents the new way of social interactions. the reports of problematic forms of internet usage brought attention to this issue. current study examines the correlation between subscales of identity styles and social skills with problematic internet use among facebook users. furthermore, this study aimed to find the pr...

ego identity defined as a fundamental element of a person and as self-continuum, mental andinward image that an individual has about him or herself. this subject investigated in contemporary world, amply.for actualizing and testing this concept, four bases including achievement, moratorium, foreclosure and diffusionintroduced and based on this framework, and the effect of different factors on e...

Editor ) Family medicine is not taught in Brazilian medical schools and family medicine faculty staff are absent in academic settings. Inspired by other countries associations of family medicine teachers, SOBRAMFA, the Brazilian Society for Family Medicine, was founded in 1992 as the first such society in Brazil to establish the basis and scientific method for family medicine, spreading its phi...

Currently, the UK government is attempting to relate the rights and entitlements of citizenship with a standard identifier for all British citizens and its representation in a national identity card. This teaching case describes the history of this endeavor as promoted by the UK government and its agencies. It also describes the reaction to these plans on the part of numerous other stakeholder ...

This paper examines whether European integration, manifesting itself in increased trade and FDI linkages, new specializations and economic policy coordination, contributed to the synchronization of business cycles in the enlarged EU. We estimate the effects on bilateral growth rate correlations in 1995-2008 in a simultaneous equations model which permits to model endogenous relationships and un...