fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. it challenges the safety of cities. for this reason it has gained considerable attention among the sociologists and criminologists over the last 20 years. whilst men experiencing relatively high rates of violence, they report their fear of crime less than women. in the contrary women have a much greater fear of crime than men, but are victimized le...

At the moment, 14 European Talent Centres belong to the recently formed European Talent Support Network, which, in the long run, can bring new dimensions to pan-European cooperation in supporting young talented people all over Europe.  Exchange and adaptation of best practices, spread and application of scientific results, possibilities of mutual visits of young talents, their teachers, me...

Precision medicine requires precise evidence-based practice and precise definition of the patients included in clinical studies for evidence generalization. Clinical research exclusion criteria define confounder patient characteristics for exclusion from a study. However, unnecessary exclusion criteria can weaken patient representativeness of study designs and generalizability of study results....

In two studies we investigate whether social exclusion—a well-studied, common and quite painful social experience-influences people’s perceptions of novel social networks. In a first study, exclusion experiences led people to report that novel networks were more dense relative to those who had not been excluded. As predicted, this was true only for social networks; exclusion had no impact on pe...

F or as long as there have been provider networks that engage in managed care contracting—whether HMOs, PPOs, IPAs, PHOs, or now ACOs—there have been antitrust lawsuits challenging exclusion from those networks. These suits tend to share a core set of facts. An excluded provider group contends that the denial of its application for admission to the network was the product of a conspiracy among ...

By developing the new services such as VoIP and Videoconference, using a mechanism is needed to support the quality of service of the application programs. Different models have been presented to guarantee the quality of service. Among these, the differentiated services can be mentioned which was presented by IETF. In the architecture of the differentiated services, no admission control mechani...

conclusions based on the results, participants in the study didn’t have favorable status with respect to perceived social support (in all dimensions) from their social network members. while, social support as one of the social determinants of health, plays an important role in improving psychological conditions in people’s lives; therefore, being aware of social support and designing effective...

This study examines the evolution of social networks within groups of six subjects playing a prisoners dilemma game. In each round subjects cannot discriminate in their action choice but can exclude others from their social environment. Four treatments are considered, varying the cost of exclusion and the information flow through the network. Observed cooperation levels strongly depend on the t...

The research focuses on the issue of learning technologies for people with mild intellectual disabilities. analysis carried out is grounded in theses network society. initial objectives addressed three main issues: risks digital exclusion disabilities highly technological developed societies; a conceptual view as tools to support social inclusion; and importance creating accessible e-learning e...