Solidarity and kinship has long been an intangible emblem to Malay community especially in the rural area. It is visibly seen through the dependability among each unit of the community either in religious and social events including the matrimonial or wedding. Nevertheless, the inevitable phenomenon, modernization legitimately alters every facets of human life not only the routines, traditions,...

BACKGROUND We extend the „Wedding Ring‟ agent-based model of marriage formation to include some empirical information on the natural population change for the United Kingdom together with behavioural explanations that drive the observed nuptiality trends. OBJECTIVE We propose a method to explore statistical properties of agent-based demographic models. By coupling rule-based explanations drivin...

Social networking sites experience huge growth in their number of members. For marketing purposes they are very beneficial to spread Word-of-Mouth in terms of product recommendations. A closer view detects that social networking sites can be divided in open(OSNs) and invitation-only social networking sites (ISNs). Their members may behave different in contributing knowledge in terms of product ...

Why is Neuroticism so harmful to marriage and other intimate relationships? Given that such relationships generally involve a sexual component, the current longitudinal study explored whether the apparent negative impact of own and partner's Neuroticism on marriage could be explained by dissatisfaction with the sexual relationship. Just after their weddings, 72 couples reported their marital sa...