Background: Internet social media platforms have become quite popular, enabling a wide range of online users to stay in touch with their friends and relatives wherever they are at any time. This has led significant increase virtual crime from the inception these present day. Users harassed when confidential information about them is stolen, or another user posts insulting offensive comments the...

Electronic Social Networks and Constructive Learning: Designing Verifying the Application of Virtual in Collegiate face to Education

Mobile ad hoc social networks are selfconfiguring social networks that connect users using mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs, and cellular phones. These social networks facilitate users to form virtual communities of similar interests or commonalities. This paper proposes semantics-based mobile social network (SMSN), a novel framework of a fully functional mobile ad hoc social network that ...

this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between components of social capital (security, trust, social norms, social networks and participation in social activities) and physical activity participation among the adolescent students in yazd city. the statistical population of the study included adolescent students (14-17 years old) from yazd city. 382 adolescents were randomly selected t...

This study considers how local people relate their community identity to symbolic physical environment and how the geographical locations of these 'symbols' play a role in deciding the nature of social networks of the community groups organized for the purpose of regeneration. The subject of study is a mountainous rural village in Kochi prefecture, Japan, which has suffered depopulation and agi...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) provide a venue for virtual interactions and relationships between individuals. In some communities, OSNs also facilitate arranging offline meetings and relationships. FetLife, the worlds largest anonymous social network for the BDSM, fetish and kink communities, provides a unique example of an OSN that serves as an interaction space, community organizing tool, and...

Social media and social networks are embedded in our society to a point that could not have been imagined only ten years ago. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are already well known social networks that have a large audience in all age groups. Recently more trendy social sites such as Pinterest, Instagram, Vine, Tumblr, WhatsApp, and Snapchat are being preferred by the younger audience. The amou...

  Purpose: Different views of an individuals’ image may be required for proper face recognition.   Recently, discrete cosines transform (DCT) based method has been used to synthesize virtual   views of an image using only one frontal image. In this work the performance of two different   algorithms was examined to produce virtual views of one frontal image.   Materials and Methods: Two new meth...

Social media and social networks are embedded in our society to a point that could not have been imagined only ten years ago. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are already well known social networks that have a large audience in all age groups. The amount of data that those social sites gather from their users is continually increasing and this data is very valuable for marketing, research, and v...