Social contacts
Social contacts and the locations in which they occur as risk factors for influenza infection.
... human social behaviour and transmission is an intriguing aspect of the life cycle of respiratory viral ...between social contacts and biologically confirmed infection has not previously been tested ...
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Quantifying social contacts in a household setting of rural Kenya using wearable proximity sensors
... few contacts be- ing recorded with this age ...of social networks and con- tacts [, ...different social, economic, cultural and demographic ...daily contacts and why day-to-day differences ...
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Quantifying social contacts in a household setting of rural Kenya using wearable proximity sensors
... few contacts be- ing recorded with this age ...of social networks and con- tacts [, ...different social, economic, cultural and demographic ...daily contacts and why day-to-day differences ...
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Epidemic modelling by ripple spreading network and genetic algorithm
... his/her social contacts and physical movements happen within a small group of people (compared with the whole community) and a limited physical space (compared with the entire ...the social ...
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Testing the hypothesis of preferential attachment in social network formation
... existing social contacts give more opportunities for future social ...which social contacts are made, however, PA does not imply a divergent second moment for the distribution of ...
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Behavioural responses to neighbourhood reputations
... Hirschman discerns two types of customer responses: exit and voice. The exit option is exercised when consumers stop buying a product or quit a certain organisation and possibly switch to a competing brand or ...
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(Dis-)integrative Effects of MUD-Usage as Seen by the Players
... (social contacts with relative anonymity), over which Ulrike stumbled, Julia has changed her life positively – at least from a subjective point of ...
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Differences in quality of life in home-dwelling persons and nursing home residents with dementia – a cross-sectional study
... functions, social contacts, sleep patterns, physical activity levels, exposure to light, and medication of PWDs in nursing homes and home-dwelling PWDs, and whether living in nursing homes was associated ...
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Elderly people in many respects benefit from interaction with dogs
... the results of the literature research in books can be summarized as follows: the human-animal relation- ship is a neglected topic that is addressed only mar- ginally. Rheinz describes the interaction between hu- mans ...
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Venus.pdf
... Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to ...
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Modelling the loss and retention of contacts in social networks: The role of dyad-level heterogeneity and tie strength
... investigated social network dynamics over time, with a particular focus on the retention in the social network ...of social contacts over a four-year ...for social network evo- ...
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Osteoarthritis and functional disability: results of a cross sectional study among primary care patients in Germany
... the social network contributes to physical ...and social contacts would rep- resent a possible confounder for our findings, conse- quently we assessed this correlation but no significance could be ...
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Experiences of rejection by mental health patients— A qualitative study
... experienced social relationships in personal settings as well as in ...reduced social contacts due to various degrees of acceptance and knowledge of people in general; service users reported on ...
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Association of functional and structural social support with chronic kidney disease among African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study
... structural social support have been associated with some clinical outcomes, it may have been more appropriate to measure the asso- ciation between CKD and specific self-management ...between social support ...
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Altered social behavior and ultrasonic communication in the dystrophin-deficient mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
... physical contacts, while they went back to normal exploratory activity upon interruption of social ...altered social behavior in mdx mice [34, ...influenced social hier- archy and/or ...
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Online social network contacts as information repositories
... whether contacts are used as sources of information were: the accessibility of the contacts; what they know about them; what they know about their knowledge, and; social ...
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Benefiting From the Community Structure in Opportunistic Forwarding
... have shown that node mobility in DTNs is not entirely random, and instead, some patterns can be found more or less. Based on this observation, some researchers proposed utility-based routing protocols[7][33][34], in ...
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Finding and removing highly connected individuals using suboptimal vaccines
... close contacts (comprising family members and close friends which can easily be traced) and casual contacts who will be more worrisome in case of an outbreak, because they are more difficult to detect and ...
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Watershed Management through Social Mapping - a means of Community Participation
... There are different ways for having better community participation. We can have informal discussion with the people and also some formal meeting if required. We must get mixed with local people so that it will be easy ...
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Exploring the drivers of investment decision making in entrepreneurial pitches
... Business plans are presented to potential investors by submitting them to venture capital firms, whose contacts are available on the internet, by using their social ties to reach investo[r] ...
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