The social behavior of peers in peer-to-peer network can be inferred from the observable factors of the system and its components as it is created, lives and evolves. Following a social metaphor, it should be possible to use the observation of these behaviors to organize the network of peers for purposes as various as improving the retrieval performance, efficiently managing storage, improving ...

Healthcare innovation has enabled patients to take a more central role in the management of their disease conditions. The innovative trend has not precluded the central role of primary care givers and experts yet. However, the increasing prominence of social media (SM), such as the Twitter microblogging platform has ensured that a parallel path has been created for people to seek for health-rel...

We consider the problem of mapping data in peerto-peer systems. Such systems rely on simple value searches to locate data of interest. However, different peers may use different values to identify or describe the same data. To accommodate this, peer-to-peer systems often rely on mapping tables that list pairs of corresponding values for search domains that are used in different peers. We illust...

Advances in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and web technologies have recently enabled P2P personal and social networking. The key to the success of such systems is middleware and tools that will allow non-expert consumers to manage their networks and share their resources easily and intuitively. This is the motivation behind MyNet, a P2P platform that enables non-expert users to easily organize their resou...

This Article-in-Press has been permanently withdrawn. The editorial policy of Medical Hypotheses makes it clear that the journal considers "radical, speculative, and non-mainstream scientific ideas", and articles will only be acceptable if they are "coherent and clearly expressed." However, we received serious expressions of concern about the quality of this article, which contains highly contr...

Kim, Youn-hee. (2017). The nature of peer interaction: Role relationships formed in pair interaction. English Teaching, 72(1), 131-158. This study examines the nature of peer interaction, in particular pair interaction, of adult learners engaged in a range of activities in naturalistic EFL lessons. Six pairs engaged in seven different activities followed by a stimulated recall interview. Data f...

The aim of this study was to compare 2 methods for developing a clinical practice guideline (CPG) on the management of asymptomatic, impacted mandibular third molars. Outcome measures were the mean time invested by the participants for each method, the quality of the CPGs measured using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) indicator and observations of the group discu...