the aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of information and communication technology on the structure of social networks. three major questions have been considered. first, how far does the combination of adolescent social links tend to be heterogeneous and how much is this change related to social and technological factors? second, does this alternation affect the power of adolescen...

Shape is an important quality index of cold rolling strip. Up to now, many problems in the shape control domain have not been solved satisfactorily, and a review on the research progress in the shape control domain can help to seek new breakthrough directions. In the past 10 years, researches and applications of shape control models, shape control means, shape detection technology, and shape co...

Although Slovenian science is permanently subject of analysis and reorganization, there are no evident improvements of its organizational structure and share of researchers in so called governmental and economic sector. There are opinions that the key problems of Slovenian science are in the field of technical sciences; that the cause of industrial non-competitiveness are engineers. The search ...

“The authors thank the help from the Statistical Analysis Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine and the Statistical Analysis Laboratory, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital. This study is based in part on data from the National Health Insurance Research Database provided by the National Health Insurance Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare and m...

nursing manpower plays an important role in care quality and health promotion. so any health care organization without an efficient nursing unit is not expected to survive for a long time. this study was conducted to estimate the number of the necessary nursing manpower for the selected hospitals according to the proposed model by the iran ministry of health.this research is a cross wardal stud...

Information systems are advancing, even though the logic of complementarity effect is still persisting, few researches discussed how information technology boosts up multilateral cooperation effect and how information technology come into being benefit through indirect network interlink. The paper will construct a model where knowledge sharing creates indirect relation value based on informatio...

The purpose of this research, is to study factors influencing privacy concerns about data security and protection on social network sites and its’ influence on self-disclosure. 100 articles about privacy protection, data security, information disclosure and Information leakage on social networks were studied. Models and algorithms types and their repetition in articles have been distinguished a...

Researches on asthma have found that air pollution increased asthma prevalence among sensitive age groups, including school children, and exposed them to the recognized health impacts. The aim of this study is to examine the association between elevated annual mean concentration of PM2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 micrometers) and surface ozone and asthma preval...