In mobile social networks, forwarding is a challenging problem since there may be no end-to-end paths. Existing schemes using overlays are not applicable to pure mobile social networks since they use environments different from the mobile social networks. To resolve this problem, we propose a novel forwarding scheme that considers the common neighbor similarity and contact probability. In the p...

Pectoral fin contact in bottlenose dolphins represents one form of tactile communication. Acoustic communication associated with pectoral fin contact is an additional level of communication that may change or enhance the tactile message between two individuals. In this study, we examine vocalization types associated with pectoral fin contact in a group of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops t...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.11.012 0003-3472/© 2017 The Association for the Study of A Group members interact with each other during multiple social behaviours that range from aggressive to affiliative interactions. It is not known, however, whether an individual's suite of social behaviours consistently covaries through time and across different types of social interactions. Consist...

aim: benefits of skin-to-skin contact (ssc) between mother and her newborn, specifically when it is conducted immediately after birth, have been recognized for more than 40 years. to determine why ssc is not conducted, the present study considers the opinions of the labor working midwifes about the reinforcing factors in ssc immediately after birth in tehran's hospitals in 2012-2013. methods: i...

BACKGROUND Many U.K. medical schools have patient contact in the first two years of the undergraduate course. AIM To compare the purposes and organization of early patient contact in UK medical schools and to relate these arrangements to the schools' curricular objectives. METHODS A telephone survey of lead educators in UK medical schools. Categories of contact were plotted against phases o...

While heterogeneity in social behaviour has been described in many human contexts it is often assumed to be less common in the animal kingdom even though scale-free networks are observed. This homogeneity raises the question of whether the patterns of behaviour necessary to account for scale-free social contact networks, where the degree distribution follows a power law, i.e. a few individuals ...

Social contact often initially depends on ascertaining the direction of the other person's gaze. We determined the brain areas involved in gaze monitoring by a functional neuroimaging study. Discrimination between the direction of gaze significantly activated a region in the left amygdala during eye-contact and no eye-contact tasks to the same extent. However, a region in the right amygdala was...

canola producers in the province of qazvin were surveyed in order to explore their perceptionabout technical skills influencing the production of canola. based on the perception ofrespondents, the results showed that the contact with agricultural service centers would encouragefarmers to produce canola. the results showed that there were relationship between perception ofrespondents about canol...

A critical issue concerning communication between remote persons by means of videoconferencing is the ability of the system to provide a high degree of social presence. In this paper we describe the results of a comparative evaluation of two videoconferencing systems. One was a traditional one with a camera mounted above the display. Main disadvantage of such systems is that they do not convey ...

Social exclusion evokes powerful motivations and emotions. The present studies examined how these motivations and emotions might differ following exclusion that is explicit, active, and direct (i.e., when one is rejected) versus implicit, passive, and indirect (i.e., when one is ignored). It was hypothesized that being rejected should produce a sense of social loss and lead to more prevention-f...