Does capital at home matter more than capital at school? Social capital effects on academic achievement Mikaela J. Dufur a,∗, Toby L. Parcel b, Kelly P. Troutman c a Department of Sociology, 2008 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States b Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Campus Box 8107, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27603, United States c Departmen...

The current use of Artificial Intelligence methods as tools for theory construction in sociology is reviewed. The main use seems to be the modelling of cognitive models processes of individual actors. Other approaches to simulation in sociology uses very simple models of individual actors, especially cellular automata. The theoretical importance of this kind of model for sociology is neglectabl...

In this paper, recent concepts in the management of war wounds of the maxillofacial region are described. A brief differentiation is also given between general practice medicine and military medicine.

OBJECTIVE To assess the public's awareness of human papillomavirus (HPV) as a causative factor for oropharyngeal cancer. STUDY DESIGN Twenty-three-item survey. SETTING Local shopping malls and Maxwell Air Force Base in 2012. METHODS Respondents were randomly chosen to participate in 23-item survey at various local shopping malls and at Maxwell Air Force Base in 2012. The χ(2) test was use...

Conscientious objection is the right of physicians to reject a practice or action that violates their ethical or moral principles (1). In majority of democratic countries, an individual has a legitimate right to conscientiously object and refuse to act according to the law or its individual provisions that prescribe behavior contrary to the individual’s conscience. However, it is necessary that...