This study examines how adolescent experience in Internet cafés (known as wangba Chinese) relates to academic attainment urban, rural, and Tibetan schools of China. By documenting the frustrations teenagers express their negotiations with adults surrounding access use and, by comparing self-reported standing students from similar backgrounds they differ wangba, finds that visiting is not strong...

BACKGROUND Self-harm is common among young people and is evident in increasingly younger age groups. Many young people who self-harm do visit their GP but do not access specialist support. GP's can find it challenging to raise and discuss this sensitive subject with young people during short consultations. OBJECTIVE To explore GP's capabilities, motivations and opportunities for discussing se...

One of the consequences of the new era threatening the cultural health of societies is the prevalence of deviant behaviors among young people. Young people today are more exposed to the use of new media and modern media culture, and this has significant effects on their behavior. The purpose of this study was to study the relationship between the amount and type of social media use with the ten...

Let M be a simply connected complex submanifold of C . We prove that M is irreducible, up a totally geodesic factor, if and only if the normal holonomy group acts irreducibly. This is an extrinsic analogue of the well-known De Rham decomposition theorem for a complex manifold. Our result is not valid in the real context, as it is shown by many counter-examples.

Since their inception, social networking sites (SNSs) have experienced exponential growth. While substantial research has been dedicated to users’ initial adoption of SNSs, the fall of MySpace reminds us that the long-term success of SNSs depends on users’ post adoption staying power. Inspired by this, this work-in-progress investigates users’ “stickiness” with a specific SNS. Based on Li et al...

This paper reports on an empirical investigation of the relationship between print and hypertext reading skills. Subjects in the study were university students at a public Midwestern university. A repeated-measures, counter-balanced design was employed. Subjects were categorized as highand low-ability readers based on a standardized measure of reading achievement. Experimental tasks required su...

Content contribution from individuals is critical to the viability of online communities. In this study we identify the factors that are associated with the quantity and the quality of content sharing in a photo sharing community, where the act of content creation is decoupled from the act of content sharing. We draw on theories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and find that the prospect ...

BACKGROUND The development of services that are responsive to the needs of users is a health policy priority. Finding ways of engaging young people in research to gain insights into their particular experiences, perspectives, and needs is vital but challenging. These data are critical to improving services in ways that meet the needs of young people. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate Web-base...

I read with interest the article Garrett and Kirkman et al. wrote on the limited success of the pilot telemedicine sexual health service and their reflections on needing more advice from what young people thought to have got it right. A 2008 UNICEF statement entitled ‘Young People: Partners for Health’ written by an international group of young people states: “Young people need to be at the for...

CONTEXT We know little about young people's views of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the frequency of teenage pregnancy. OBJECTIVE To compare the views of young people and professionals about ways to reduce the frequency of teenage pregnancy. DESIGN Comparison of consensus emerging from adult and teenagers' workshop discussions and subsequent modified two-round Delphi questionn...