Social recommendation is popular and successful among various urban sustainable applications like products recommendation, online sharing and shopping services. Users make use of these applications to form several implicit social networks through their daily social interactions. The users in such social networks can rate some interesting items and give comments. The majority of the existing stu...

The world presents far more information than people have the capacity to examine. As a result, humans have evolved to use cognitive heuristics to decide quickly what information to pay attention to. For example, people pay more attention to items near the top of a list than those below [Payne 1951]. A consequence of this cognitive heuristic, called position bias, is the strong effect the presen...

objective: assessment of social skills is a necessary requirement to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral interventions. this paper reports the cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the farsi version of the social skills rating system-secondary students form (ssrs-ss) questionnaire (gresham and elliot, 1990), in a normative sample of secondary school s...

Innovation and social information use are influenced by individual characteristics, and are important for the creation and transmission of novel behavioral patterns. Here, we investigated which individual factors predict innovation rates and social transmission of information in a comparative study with identically reared common ravens (Corvus corax) and carrion crows (Corvus corone corone; Cor...

Although the clinical utility of the functional analysis is well established, its social acceptability has received minimal attention. The current study assessed the social acceptability of functional analysis procedures among 10 parents and 3 teachers of children who had recently received functional analyses. Participants completed a 9-item questionnaire, and results suggested that functional ...

OBJECTIVES Advances in biopsychosocial science have underlined the importance of taking social history and life course perspective into consideration in primary care. For both clinical and research purposes, this study aims to develop and validate a standardised instrument measuring both material and social deprivation at an individual level. METHODS We identified relevant potential questions...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) questionnaires are desirable for clinical practice but can be time-consuming to administer and interpret, making their widespread adoption difficult. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the performance of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-100 questionnaire as four item banks to facilitate adaptive testing using simulated computer adaptive test...