objectives the aim of this paper was to survey the relationship between attachment styles, self-monitoring and cybercrime in social network users. patients and methods the collins and read adult attachment scale, and the snyder self-monitoring and cybercrime scales were sent to 500 social network users. of these, 203 users (103 men and 100 women) filled out the questionnaires. results the resul...

[1] The key question that is asked in this study is ‘‘how are the three independent bias components of satellite rainfall estimation, comprising hit bias, missed, and false precipitation, physically related to the estimation uncertainty of soil moisture and runoff for a physically based hydrologic model?’’ The study also investigated the performance of different satellite rainfall products as a...

BACKGROUND Home blood pressure (BP) monitoring is gaining increasing popularity among patients and may be useful in hypertension management. Little is known about the reliability of stroke patients' records of home BP monitoring. OBJECTIVE To assess the reliability of home BP recording in hypertensive patients who had suffered a recent stroke or transient ischaemic attack. METHODS Thirty-ni...

In the era of managed healthcare, the measuring and reporting of surgical outcomes is a universal mandate. The outcomes should be monitored and reported in a timely manner. Methods for measuring surgical outcomes should be continuous, free of bias and accommodate variations in patient factors. The traditional methods of surgical audits are periodic, resource-intensive and have a potential for b...

This paper explains the time needed to negotiate the costs and benefits of voluntary joint ventures among local governments for economic development purposes. The dyad between local governments is the unit of analysis. The characteristic of the institutional tie is collected for 90 cooperative arrangements identified through a survey of local government officials in 12 metropolitan areas. Since...

Human reasoning is often biased by intuitive heuristics. A key question is why some people are less susceptible to this bias than others. It is debated whether the bias results from a failure to monitor one’s intuitive conclusions for conflict with logical considerations or from a failure to inhibit the tempting intuitions. This results in different views on the role of individual differences i...