What makes some risks dreadful? We propose that people are particularly sensitive to threats that could kill the number of people that is similar to the size of a typical human social circle. Although there is some variability in reported sizes of social circles, active contact rarely seems to be maintained with more than about 100 people. The loss of this immediate social group may have had su...

this research is intended to present an elucidation of interaction between textual context and circumstantial context while comprehending the text. this interaction is maintained in a specific hermeneutic circle of comprehending the text. the qur’ān is divine word and has characteristics that demands hermeneutic circle proportionate to it. therefore, in this research the characteristics influen...

With the dawn of social network and its attractiveness, people are interested to share their experience, such as rating, reviews, etc. which helps to recommend the items of user interest. The potential growth of the internet results the use of social networks such as Face book, Twitter, linked-in etc. which produces huge amount of information (data), which leads to overwhelming. To overcome ove...

Comprehensive geriatric assessment has become synonymous with geriatric practice. This includes evaluation of the older person's physical and mental health, and the functional and social status. We propose a new way of representing a person's condition, called the "polar diagram". This shows the subject's scores on the evaluation scales that are arranged in radial positions inside a circle. The...

We introduce the domain of preferences that are singlepeaked on a circle, which is a generalization of the wellstudied single-peaked domain. This preference restriction is useful, e.g., for scheduling decisions, and for one-dimensional decisions in the presence of extremist preferences. We give a fast recognition algorithm of this domain, provide a characterisation by finitely many forbidden su...

We develop an architecture for a federation of home gateways. We distinguish inner and outer circle friends and describe a mechanism for social-aware backup of content and sharing with friends. To facilitate remote access, content can be segmented and redundantly stored at gateways of friends. We develop innovative solutions that allow secure and redundant storage of segments with inner and out...

Human collective behavior can vary from calm to panicked depending on social context. Using videos publicly available online, we study the highly energized collective motion of attendees at heavy metal concerts. We find these extreme social gatherings generate similarly extreme behaviors: a disordered gas-like state called a mosh pit and an ordered vortex-like state called a circle pit. Both ph...