The design of distributed infrastructures to support remote collaboration among groups of social scientists raises new computational and networking challenges that Grid developers are currently targeting. Beyond such technical goals, however, the e-Science programme as a whole is increasingly recognizing the critical need for a comprehensive understanding of ordinary dayto-day work in the scien...

The social connections people form online affect the quality of information they receive and their online experience. Although a host of socioeconomic and cognitive factors were implicated in the formation of offline social ties, few of them have been empirically validated, particularly in an online setting. In this study, we analyze a large corpus of georeferenced messages, or tweets, posted b...

In a large social media corpus (2.9 million tokens), we analyze Flemish adolescents’ non-standard writing practices and look for correlations with the teenagers’ social class. Three different aspects of adolescents’ social background are included: educational track, parental profession, and home language. Since the data reveal that these parameters are highly correlated, we combine them into on...

Social impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a hallmark feature of its diagnosis, may underlie specific neural signatures that can aid in differentiating between those with and without ASD. To assess common and consistent patterns of differences in brain responses underlying social cognition in ASD, this study applied an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to results f...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To study geographical differences in diastolic blood pressure and the influence of the social environment (census percentage of people with low educational achievement) on individual diastolic blood pressure level, after controlling for individual age and educational achievement. To compare the results of multilevel and ecological analyses. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis per...

BACKGROUND Non-concordance with medication remains a major public health problem that imposes a considerable financial burden on the health care system, and there is still a need for studies on correlates of non-concordance. Our first aim is to analyse whether any of the individual characteristics age, educational level, financial strain, self-rated health, social participation, and trust in th...

BACKGROUND Few studies have focused on the social inequalities associated with environmental noise despite its significant potential health effects. This study analysed the associations between area socio-economic status (SES) and potential residential exposure to road traffic noise at a small-area level in Marseilles, second largest city in France. METHODS We calculated two potential road no...

I. Introduction The purpose of this work is to endow an embodied conversational computer agent with the ability to establish and maintain an ongoing social relationship with a user. This ability is not only important in entertainment applications (e.g., as in Tamagotchis and Furbies which are specifically designed to establish ongoing relationships with their users) and affect support systems (...

OBJECTIVES To identify demographic and socioeconomic determinants of need for acute hospital treatment at small area level. To establish whether there is a relation between poverty and use of inpatient services. To devise a risk adjustment formula for distributing public funds for hospital services using, as far as possible, variables that can be updated between censuses. DESIGN Cross section...

This paper aims to develop a method integrating techniques: Content Analysis, Bibliometric Analysis, Social Network Analysis and Concept Mapping in a Systematic Literature Review Environment. The application of the method will occur in the area of Industrial Energy Efficiency. This paper hopes to contribute with the field of Research Methodology. Key-words – Systematic Literature Review, Conten...