Past research has shown that adolescent peer groups make a significant contribution to shaping behavior but less is known about the role of peer groups in adolescent dating relationships. This longitudinal study examined the contribution of aggressive peer group norms on relationship quality and dating violence among dating adolescents. At the beginning of the school year (T1) and 6 months late...

Background and Purpose: One landmark of adolescence is the increasing value young people place on friendship and relationship with peers.The aim of this study was to determine adolescents and key informants’ perceptions and experiences regarding to importance of peer groups. Methods: Sixty-seven female adolescents (12–19 years) and 11 key informants, recruited from urban and rural areas from S...

A fundamental consideration in designing successful trust scores in a peer-to-peer system is the self-interest of individual peers. We propose a strategyproof partition mechanism that provides incentives for peers to share files, is non-manipulable by selfish interests, and approximates trust scores based on EigenTrust[5]. The basic idea behind the partition mechanism is that the peers are part...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the comparative effect of teacher-, peer-, andself-assessment on EFL learners’ vocabulary achievement. Accordingly, 90 female Englishlanguage learners selected out of an initial 140 intermediate EFL learners based on theirperformance on a sample piloted PET took part in the study. All three groups were taught bythe same teacher using the same cour...

How do social platforms such as Facebook help migrant communities cope with the adversities faced during migration journey? This is question that drove this study, which explores on- and offline experiences of Malagasy migrants in France their journeys. We use complementary mixed methods, including an online survey (2021, n = 340) participant observation in-group public interactions on 28 group...

Peer-to-peer applications (P2P) are no longer limited to home users, and start being accepted in academic and corporate environments. While file sharing and instant messaging applications are the most traditional examples, they are no longer the only ones benefiting from the potential advantages of P2P networks. For example, network file storage, data transmission, distributed computing, and co...