Social media have enjoyed a rapidly increasing adoption among users in recent years. Millions of users execute billions of actions (in form of tweets, messages, replies, likes, etc.) every day. The massive amount of social interactions online has contributed to the proliferation of social advertising. Alongside the interest in online and social advertising, Twitter has introduced several advert...

Sunni Islam has no supreme legal authority and disagreement by doctors of Islamic law over all issues not clarified by Islamic law is physiological. This is the case with Medically Assisted Reproduction: after an initially critical attitude, tolerance, limited exclusively to homologous practices, is spreading, whilst recourse to heterologous practices is considered on a par with adultery or for...

Premarital precursors of infidelity were evaluated in a sample of 72 couples (N = 144) who were taking part in a longitudinal study of marriage. Premarital self-report and observational data were compared for couples who experienced infidelity and those who did not experience infidelity in the first years of marriage. Couples in which the male engaged in marital infidelity were characterized, p...

We review the relationship between polygyny and HIV and identify a positive individual-level correlation, and a negative ecological correlation. We subsequently examine two mechanisms that contribute to the individual-level correlation. First, we find that men in polygynous marriages have more extramarital sex than men in monogamous unions (both in terms of self reports and in terms of spousal ...

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We investigate paid endorsement as a crowd-sourcing social advertising mechanism that allows advertisers to bypass publishers (e.g., Facebook) and recruit individual endorsers of their own choice at affordable prices. Specifically, we investigate (i) how incentives affect endorsers’ participation and effectiveness, (ii) what types of endorsers are most effective in generating online engagement ...

CONTEXT Gender inequality is a long-recognized driver of the HIV epidemic. However, few studies have investigated the association between gender-based power and HIV risk in India, which has the world's third largest HIV epidemic. METHODS Population-based data collected in 2003 from 3,385 couples residing in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, North India, were used to examine associations between ...

Abstract Objective To understand the meanings attributed by older adult with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using Long-Term Home Oxygen Therapy (LTOT) regarding romantic relationships and sexual practice. Method Qualitative study in which seven semi-structured interviews were carried out patients a confirmed diagnosis of COPD LTOT, treated an outpatient service. The content analys...