BACKGROUND Hazardous drinking among adolescents is a major public health concern. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of binge drinking/alcohol consumption and its association with different types of friendship networks, gender and socioeconomic status among students in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study on a representative r...

This article provides a qualitative analysis of the social interactions between Chinese and Tanzanian participants within joint Chinese-Tanzanian educational initiative in Confucius Institute programming at University Dar es Salaam. The addresses issue how people involved understand their those governments context increased presence sub-Saharan Africa. shows that friendships are motivated by bo...

In this paper we study the signed Roman dominationnumber of the join of graphs. Specially, we determine it for thejoin of cycles, wheels, fans and friendship graphs.

In January 2011, the scheduling plans of Britain’s biggest TV station, BBC1, were leaked to the press. After the recent success of BBC comedies such as Outnumbered (2007-) and My Family (2000-11), BBC1 Controller Danny Cohen apparently told his team of producers that BBC Comedy was becoming ‘too middle class’, and failing in its responsibility to appeal to working class viewers (Gammell, 2011; ...

the topic of human relationships—be they positive and sympathetic, or negative and hostile—receives a great amount of attention in the qur’ān. human beings need to be aware of both their friends and their enemies in order to learn how to engage with both groups, how to make additional friends and defend themselves from harm caused by enemies, and, if possible, turn these enemies into friends. t...

AIM To determine the prevalence of tobacco use and its association with types of friendship networks, socioeconomic status and gender among Brazilian adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out with a representative sample of 905 students aged 15 to 19 years. Information on social networks and tobacco use was collected by the self-administered questionnaire 'Alcohol, Smoking ...

Friendships are essential for adolescent social development. However, they may be pursued for varying motives, which, in turn, may predict similarity in friendships via social selection or social influence processes, and likely help to explain friendship quality. We examined the effect of early adolescents' (N = 374, 12-14 years) intrinsic and extrinsic friendship motivation on friendship selec...