Despite the many potential benefits to its users, social networking appears to provide a rich setting for criminal activities and other misdeeds. In this paper we consider whether the risks of social networking are unique and novel to this context. Having considered the nature and range of applications to which social networks may be applied, we conclude that there are no exploits or fundamenta...

The integration between official statistics and social media data is a challenging topic. This contribution aims to present a recentlydesigned framework to compare sentiment analysis on social media content with social and economic data. Such framework which has already been applied, in a preliminary fashion, to the Felicittà project is meant to integrate official statistics and correlate it wi...

Although animal researchers established the role of testosterone as a 'social hormone' decades ago, the investigation of its causal influence on human social behaviors has only recently begun. Here, we review and discuss recent studies showing the causal effects of testosterone on social interactions in animals and humans, and outline the basic neurobiological mechanisms that might underlie the...

In order to evaluate social benefits in electrical power inspection scientifically and assess social responsibility performance of power supply enterprises roundly and rationally, social benefits evaluation system of electrical power inspection based on FAHP was constructed in this study. Firstly, social benefits evaluation index system of electrical power inspection was established based on it...

This paper discusses the design and evaluation of an online social network used within twenty-two established after school programs across three major urban areas in the Northeastern United States. The overall goal of this initiative is to empower students in grades K-8 to prevent obesity through healthy eating and exercise. The online social network was designed to support communication betwee...

This paper explores the relationship between the creative process and social intelligence. Creativity has established value in modern, knowledge-based economies but is complex, multi-faceted and often group-led. Social intelligence is one method for navigating this complexity using intuition, communication, collaboration and empathy. A ‘creative vortex’ model (originally derived from PhD thesis...

Autoantibodies and circulating immune complexes are common associated findings in inflammatory disease of unknown aetiology. In most circumstances, however, it is far from easy to demonstrate their pathogenic significance. Sometimes pathological events can be linked clearly with the presence of autoantibodies. These include antibodies found in autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and myasthenia gravis...

Social networks are some of the largest and fastest growing online services today. Facebook, for example, has been ranked as the second most visited site on the Internet, and has been reporting growth rates as high as 3% per week. One of the key features of social networks is the support they provide for finding new friends. For example, social network sites may try to automatically identify wh...

Trust is a promising research topic for social networks, since it is a basic component of our real-world social life. Yet, the transfer of the multi-facetted concept of trust to virtual social networks is an open challenge. In this paper we provide a survey and classification of established and upcoming trust systems, focusing on trust models. We introduce a set of criteria as basis of our anal...