Social consequences of illness (Chapter 5)

Chapter 5 NODE CLASSIFICATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

When dealing with large graphs, such as those that arise in the context of online social networks, a subset of nodes may be labeled. These labels can indicate demographic values, interest, beliefs or other characteristics of the nodes (users). A core problem is to use this information to extend the labeling so that all nodes are assigned a label (or labels). In this chapter, we survey classi ca...

Class differences in the social consequences of illness?

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate adverse social consequences of limiting longstanding illness and the modifying effect of socioeconomic position on these consequences. DESIGN Cohort study on the panel within the annual Swedish Survey of Living Conditions where participants were interviewed twice with eight years interval 1979-89 and 1986-97. Sociodemographic characteristics, self reported longs...

Chapter 3 - Health Consequences of Tobacco Use

Chapter 5. Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades

This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that Africa’s slave trades had a detrimental impact on long-term economic development. This is done by first constructing estimates of the number of slaves taken from each region of Africa between 1400 and 1900. The estimates are constructed by combining data on the number of slaves shipped from African ports with data...

Chapter 5 Reviewers

It is obvious from the review of theories in Chapter 3 that the authors have a good gras~ “~. the teacher retention literature. They review several dift.erent theories and a broad rang<’ ‘“ variables that influence retention, and rely upon the writings of Grissmer and collea$~~’% extensively, which makes sense given their recent contributions to the knowledge base in ?N;s area. The hypotheses p...