Address correspondence to: Nelson Varas-Díaz, Ph D, University of Puerto Rico, Graduate School of Social Work, P.O. Box 23345, San Juan, PR 00931-3345. E-mail: [email protected] Social stigma continues to be a barrier for health promotion in our society. One of the most stigmatized health conditions in our time continues to be addiction to illicit drug use. Although it has been widely recognized...

t-shape profile barriers are one of the most successful barriers among many different profiles. it has been shown that using welled diffusers on the top of t-shaped barriers makes a reactive barrier that shows better performance than that of any other used profile barriers compared with their equivalent absorbent barrier. the contribution of the top surface of reactive t-profile barriers to the...

As the Internet population grows worldwide, new population using minor languages keeps joining the Internet. At this point, understanding how language difference affects virtual communities on the web becomes more and more important. As virtual communities, blogosphere, wikis, and social network sites were investigated. I argue that language difference serves as a barrier in the virtual communi...

Cyberbullying is recognized as a serious public health problem in youth and increasingly linked with both short and long term psychological, physiological and social consequences. In the age of social media, clinicians are expected to have a low threshold of suspicion for cyberbullying; however, an insufficient awareness of its prevalence along with a lack of available standardized interviewing...

Social skills often create a barrier to placement in less restrictive environments for persons with TBI. This case study illustrated the use of a positive talk program in the treatment of a person with long-standing social skill deficits. Occupational therapy intervention with speech-language consultation began with an evaluation of the cognitive barriers that influenced the client's social beh...

In this work we describe the PriSM framework for decentralized deployment of a federation of autonomous social networks (ASN). The individual ASNs are centrally managed by organizations according to their institutional needs, while cross-ASN interactions are facilitated subject to security and confidentiality requirements specified by administrators and users of the ASNs. Such decentralized dep...

in this paper two different methods are presented to approximate the solution of the fractional black-scholes equation for valuation of barrier option. also, the two schemes need less computational work in comparison with the traditional methods. in this work, we propose a new generalization of the two-dimensional differential transform method and decomposition method that will extend the appli...

according to statistics released by agricultural insurance fund (aif) less than 4 million acres out of 90 million acres has been covered by pastures insurance. this observation along with several facts motivated authors to study possible barriers which pastures insurance has been encountered in practice. the research population included all the experts in agricultural insurance fund. small popu...

results long-term exposure to lead acetate caused histopathology effects including dilatation, congestion, nuclei heterochromatic effects, increase in diameter of renal tubules and urinary barrier thickness in rabbit renal tissue. conclusions quantitative and qualitative results of long-term lead acetate exposure showed many histopathology side-effects, especially in the urinary barrier. materi...