24(S),25-Epoxycholesterol—A Potential Friend

24(S),25-epoxycholesterol--a potential friend.

According to current concepts, oxysterols are the physiological mediators of a number of cholesterolinduced metabolic effects (for a review, see Bjorkhem et al1). Most of the evidence for this is however still indirect, and there is a discrepancy between the great number of studies demonstrating potent effects of oxysterols under in vitro conditions and the few studies consistent with a regulat...

Value of a friend, a friend of your friend, and a friend of the friend of your friend: Social discounting in n degrees of separation

Jones and Rachlin (2008) found that the amount of money a person is willing to forgo in order to give $75 to another person decreased as a hyperbolic function of perceived social distance, in the same way as occurs in intertemporal choice. This study aimed to extend this finding to the domain of social networks, in which social distance is defined by degrees of separation. A total of 334 partic...

Friend Suggestion and Friend Browsing in Web 2.0 Applications

Web 2.0 and social network applications have become increasingly popular. It is important for these applications to help users in maintaining their social networks by providing functions on friend suggestion and friend browsing. However, little study in this area has been reported in the literature. This paper proposes the design of two modules for friend suggestion and friend browsing. The fir...

My “friend on Facebook” and my “Facebook friend”

Donath et al. (2004) discuss social networking display as a whole, and its characteristic functions, affordances and constraints when existing in online environment. Focusing on the connections displayed as an integrated part of individual’s self-descriptive profiles, the authors analyze the psychology of establishing and managing one’s social networks within the framework of signaling theory. ...

Analyzing and Enhancing Routing Protocols for Friend-to-Friend Overlays