this article aims to sociological explain of fear of crime in the province of hamedan. at the regional level the cities are the unit of analysis and we have tried to explain the fear of crime in these cities with emphasis on the level of development. independent variables included in the micro-level social disorganization, social capital and social control. the population consists of all heads ...

Locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe they can control events affecting them. Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, is the most common anxiety disorder. It is characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between locus of control with anxiety and social phobia in adolescent’s...

aim and background: one of the most important learning disabilities is spelling learning disability which is accompanied by memory problems and social skills. the main aim of present research was to review the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on memory and social skills of children with spelling learning disability. methods and materials: the research method of present study w...

As Duckworth and Kern (2011) note, currently over 1% of the abstracts in PsycInfo are indexed by "selfcontrol" or one its synonyms. As part of this widespread interest, cognitive and neural scientists are debating the psychological mechanisms of self-control (Ainslie, 1975; Metcalfe & Mischel, 1999; Muraven & Baumeister, 2000), and the implementation of these mechanisms in the brain (Figner, et...

Cardiovascular health disparities continue to pose a major public health problem. The authors evaluated the effect of education administered within social networks on the improvement of hypertension in 248 African Americans compared with historical controls. Patients formed clusters with peers and attended monthly hypertension education sessions. The authors assessed the likelihood of reaching ...

The increased use of social media in Arab regions has attracted spammers seeking new victims. Spammers use accounts on Twitter to distribute adult content in Arabic-language tweets, yet this content is prohibited in these countries due to Arabic cultural norms. These spammers succeed in sending targeted spam by exploiting vulnerabilities in content-filtering and internet censorship systems, pri...

In the Social Web, the users are invited to publish a lot of personal information. These information can be easily retrieved, and sometimes reused, without providing the users with fine-grained access control mechanisms able to restrict the access to their profiles, and resources. In this paper, we present an access control model for the Social Semantic Web. Our model is grounded on the Social ...

A major security problem for a network oriented environment is executing untrusted code. Private information risks being disclosed or tampered with if unveri ed remote code manages to gain access to local resources. Since a program only shows to the user what it wants the user to see, it can hide some of its actual actions. This is the essence of a Trojan horse. In the days before global networ...