Background: There is no substitute to mother breastfeeding; on the one hand, mothers need all-out support, especially in the first days after delivery, which is one of the effective factors for women’s success in breastfeeding. Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between social support and early termination of breastfeeding. Methods: This retrospective study e...

Collaborating groups sometimes have to resolve conflicts among group members in terms of their preferences and values. When face-to-face or other synchronous communication is not possible, this type of conflict resolution is made relatively difficult by the low bandwidth of communication. We present an approach to this problem that is based on the idea of generative models of group members who ...

Ž . Groups using group decision support systems GDSS for addressing organizational problems is an evolutionary process. An analytical model incorporating evolutionary processes exists, capturing this adaptation in the group decision-making Ž . process. This model is based on the genetic algorithm GA and can be used to estimate GA parameter values from experimental data. This research effort exa...

mechanisms, such as floor control, support fair access to shared resources whose semantics do not allow for concurrent usage. One new approach integrates group coordination with extended multicast services. E arly implementations of collaboration technology facilitated applications such as joint calendar scheduling and groupware 1 products. E-mail and the World Wide Web provided the basic suppo...

Long term group work by small teams is a central part of many learning and workplace activities. Widespread group support tools such as wikis, version control systems and issue tracking systems are an invaluable aid for groups. They also have the potential to provide evidence for valuable models of the group activity. This paper describes Narcissus, designed as a new way to improve group-work b...

The emphasis on building co-operative/collaborative environments has brought out the issue of group interactions and conflicting situations,inevitable in group problem-solving. MArCo, our prototype, has an artificial conflict mediator that tries to provoke reflection and articulation on the solution process. In order to intervene more effectively, the mediator takes the group characteristics in...