Talk pages play a fundamental role in Wikipedia as the place for discussion and communication. In this work we use the comments on these pages to extract and study three networks, corresponding to different kinds of interactions. We find evidence of a specific assortativity profile which differentiates article discussions from personal conversations. An analysis of the tree structure of the art...

IL-17-producing CD4(+) T cells have been recognized as key players in organ-related autoimmune disease; however, the parameters that govern their development are yet to be elucidated fully. By using both in vivo and in vitro systems, we have investigated the role of antigen dose, pathogen-associated molecular patterns, and CD40-CD40 ligand (CD40L) cross-talk in Th17 differentiation. We found th...

This study investigates the occurrence and role of small talk in a number of different social activities, based on video-recorded corpus data from the GSLC (The Gothenburg Spoken Language Corpus) which represents a broad range of different social activities. The study builds on findings from studying communication in different social activity types and compares them with respect to the occurren...

BACKGROUND Communication errors can reduce patient safety, especially in emergency situations that require rapid responses by experts in a number of medical specialties. Talking to each other is crucial for utilizing the collective expertise of the team. Here we explored the functions of "team talk" (talking between team members) with an emphasis on the talk-work relationship in interdisciplina...

Research on how teachers design to support learning and use different designs is still in its infancy. The explorative study reported here aims approach an understanding of activities by analysing upper secondary teachers’ work while using pedagogical patterns. Ten working pairs two were invited document based findings reveal that (1) patterns inspire embark a process aligns with their own cont...

April 7 is known as “World Health Day” and one of the main responsibilities of World Health Organization is to improve the knowledge of the world population in order to prevent various diseases(1). This organization selects an illness or a disorder in terms of a unique slogan in order to plan for educational, prevention, curative and re-strengthening the operation of countries aroun...

Estimates of contact among children, used for infectious disease transmission models and understanding social patterns, historically rely on self-report logs. Recently, wireless sensor technology has enabled objective measurement of proximal contact and comparison of data from the two methods. These are mostly small-scale studies, and knowledge gaps remain in understanding contact and mixing pa...