in order to elucidate the significance and the position of international cultural relations in transformation of global peace and security, we should initially study its indicators through the cultural relationships among the nations, public, private and international organizations, social movements, international displacement /migration and modern communication technologies and then we should ...

The paper presents the experiences made with the design and implementation of the PEACE message-passing kernel. PEACE is the object-oriented parallel operating system developed for the MANNA parallel computer. MANNA is a dual-processor-node distributed-memory machine using crossbar technology for node interconnection. Performance figures of the PEACE kernel configurations are presented and thei...

There have been many texts over the years examining issues to do with emotional health and well-being, most of which provide a discourse to argue that the practice of healing and the art of medicine have become overly ‘medicalised’ to the detriment of more integrated and holistic responses to people’s health and illness. For example, in Janzen’s The Social Fabric of Health w1x it was argued how...

A friendship graph is a graph in which every two distinct vertices have exactly one common neighbor. All finite friendship graphs are known, each of them consists of triangles having a common vertex. We extend friendship graphs to two-graphs, a two-graph being an ordered pair G = (G0, G1) of edge-disjoint graphs G0 and G1 on the same vertex-set V (G0) = V (G1). One may think that the edges of G...

Friendship: Development in a Historical Perspective Friendship is a relationship that has existed across historical times in all types of societies. In developmental psychology, Piaget’s classical distinction between voluntary and symmetrical peerand friendship relationships and the asymmetrical and—due to its biological nature—compulsory parent–child relationship is still valid. However, given...

Ethnically diverse settings provide opportunities for interethnic friendship but can also increase the preference for same-ethnic friendship. Therefore, same-ethnic friendship preferences, or ethnic homophily, can work at cross-purposes with policy recommendations to diversify ethnic representation in social settings. In order to effectively overcome ethnic segregation, we need to identify thos...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate cultural identity as a risk factor for mental health problems among adolescents. DESIGN A cross sectional school based population survey. Mental health problems were measured using the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. Pupils were classified into one of four cultural identity types on the basis of friendship and clothing choices. SETTING East London. ...

Peace is the parallel operating system developed for Suprenum. Originally designed as object-based operating system relying on a microker-nel, in the meantime an evolutionary change toward object orientation took place. Based on a kernel family, this new generation Peace system was designed to act as \software backplane" for parallel computing. The rationale for this metamorphosis is presented,...

This study tested whether adolescents' attachment style is related to friendship interactions and perceptions of friendship quality. Attachment pairings were contrasted to examine whether dyad members' security of attachment or their models of others was more related to friendship. A total of 44 pairs of same-sex adolescent friends were videotaped as they engaged in an intimate conversation. Pa...

This study examined whether individuals with different personality types (i.e., overcontrollers, undercontrollers, resilients) had different friendship quality development throughout adolescence. It also investigated whether personality types were indirectly related to romantic relationship quality in young adulthood, via friendship quality development in adolescence. The study employed six wav...