Epidemiological studies have suggested that the association between city upbringing and minority status with risk for schizophrenia can be explained by social mechanisms. Neuroimaging approaches hold promise for investigating this claim. Recent studies have shown that in healthy individuals, city upbringing and minority status are associated with increased activity in brain circuits involved in...

Online social activities are undoubtedly fascinating due to the many ways they seem novel relative to social life in the offline world. Asynchronous, persistent, and multimedia conversations, malleable self-presentation, fluid group boundaries and social ties, and the freedom from the strictures of geographic proximity serve to distinguish blogs, wall posts, video chat, and tweets from the rich...

The impact of the social environment on asthma has recently begun to receive increasing attention. This article reviews the current literature to investigate the impact of the social environment at three levels-the neighborhood level, the peer level, and the family level-and to explore pathways through which the social environment "gets under the skin" to impact asthma onset and morbidity. Rese...

Originally conceived with different goals in mind, both Business Process Management (BPM) tools and social software applications help organizations in enacting multi-actor processes. The paradigms they are inspired to are, however, very different and this is mostly true if we focus on how coordination among actors is carried on. In a BPM context, usually, the process that has to be enacted is w...

Social experiences occurring during infancy have been demonstrated to exert persistent effects on neurobiological and behavioral outcomes. This social modulation of the developing brain has been observed in humans and animal models of abuse, neglect, and variation in parental style. Although the mechanisms through which these effects are achieved likely involve diverse cellular and molecular pa...

Few studies have attempted to distinguish between cues and signals in the context of chemical communication. A number of chemical substances have been shown to vary with physiological state, such as stage of oestrus cycle, fertility, dominance status or nutritional condition, but little is known about whether this variation is incidental or adaptive. Here, we provide evidence of a substance who...

We examine OnLive Traveler as a case study. Traveler is a clientserver application allowing real-time synchronous communication between individuals over the Internet. The Traveler client interface presents the user with a shared virtual 3D world, in which participants are represented by avatars. The primary mode of communication is through multi-point, full duplex voice, managed by the server. ...

The genome is programmed by the epigenome. Two of the fundamental components of the epigenome are chromatin structure and covalent modification of the DNA molecule itself by methylation. DNA methylation patterns are sculpted during development and it has been a long held belief that they remain stable after birth in somatic tissues. Recent data suggest that DNA methylation is dynamic later in l...

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Possessing social and problem-solving skills is essential for successful performance in life. The family and educational system can equip students with these vital skills. This study was carried out to determine the relationship between the family environment, social skills, and problem solving among female students. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical populati...