Social networks and Internet connectivity effects
This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as b...
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Support seeking and support giving within couples in an anxiety-provoking situation: The role of attachment styles.
This study examined how adult attachment styles moderate spontaneous behavior between dating couples when 1 member of the dyad is confronted with an anxiety-provoking situation....
Can You See the Real Me? Activation and Expression of the “True Self” on the Internet
Those who feel better able to express their “true selves” in Internet rather than face‐to‐face interaction settings are more likely to form close relationships with people met o...
Random-Walk Computation of Similarities between Nodes of a Graph with Application to Collaborative Recommendation
This work presents a new perspective on characterizing the similarity between elements of a database or, more generally, nodes of a weighted and undirected graph. It is based on...
Organizational Responses to Crisis: The Centrality of Trust
Within this division, there is a real problem with the lower level people not trusting the people at the top, because the people feel that the management doesn't tell them the t...
Corticosteroid Therapy for Critically Ill Patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Corticosteroid therapy in patients with MERS was not associated with a difference in mortality after adjustment for time-varying confounders but was associated with delayed MERS...
The funds, friends, and faith of happy people.
New studies are revealing predictors of subjective well-being, often assessed as self-reported happiness and life satisfaction. Worldwide, most people report being at least mode...
Establishing rigour in qualitative research: the decision trail
The aim of this paper is to show the way in which the decision trail of a qualitative research process can be maintained. It is argued that the trustworthiness (rigour) of a stu...
Rape Trauma Syndrome
The authors interviewed and followed 146 patients admitted during a one-year period to the emergency ward of a city hospital with a presenting complaint of having been raped. Ba...
A face(book) in the crowd
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new peop...
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis*
The Campaign was associated with sustained, continuous quality improvement in sepsis care. Although not necessarily cause and effect, a reduction in reported hospital mortality ...
Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Community-Dwelling Elderly
These are the final results of a survey of sleep-disordered breathing, which examined objective and subjective information from a large randomly selected elderly sample. We rand...