In Chapter 1, evidence was presented to indicate that the improvements in health observed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were the product of rising standards of living and sanitary reform. This illustrates the general principle that the health of a population is closely tied to the physical, social and economic environment. This chapter expands on this point of view by examining...

The Internet creates an anonymous and non-authoritarian environment where people do not have social inhibitions and can express opinions freely. However, such disinhibition at times leads to abusive use of language and uncivil behavior in the online environment. This paper leverages data from a natural experiment on an online review platform that integrated social network platform personalizati...

Link prediction has become a common way to infer new associations among actors in social networks. Most existing methods focus on the local and global information neglecting the implication of the actors in social groups. Further, the prediction process is characterized by a high complexity and uncertainty. In order to address these problems, we firstly introduce a new evidential weighted versi...

As a generalization of the triple I method, the universal triple Imethod is investigated from the viewpoints of both fuzzy reasoningand fuzzy controller. The universal triple I principle is putforward, which improves the previous triple I principle. Then,unified form of universal triple I method is established based onthe (0,1)-implication or R-implication. Moreover, the reversibilityproperty o...

Social interactions typically involve movements of the body that become synchronized over time and both intentional and spontaneous interactional synchrony have been found to be an essential part of successful human interaction. However, our understanding of the importance of temporal dimensions of social motor synchrony in social dysfunction is limited. Here, we used a pendulum coordination pa...

Based on theoretical and empirical work, we argue that autonomy is likely an important underlying source of healthy sleep. The implication is that 'treatment' for sleep problems cannot be understood as an individual-level behavioral problem but must instead be addressed in concert with larger scale social factors that may be inhibiting high-quality sufficient sleep in large segments of the popu...

There is a growing interest in designing incentives to foster “green” or prosocial behavior in environment sustainability. We show that online social network is conducive to energy saving behavior through social influence. Using data collected from online community Carbonrally.com, we show that slower growing groups perform better in energy reduction. In addition, we also show that the strength...

Smart homes are distinguished not by the technology used in them, but by the relationships between the people using those technologies. These relationships may be social, cultural, or legal, and can affect how people choose to share their homes. One implication of this sharing is the need for authentication. This may involve sharing passwords or accounts. In this paper, we consider the issues o...

The main purpose of this paper was to determine factors that influence social sustainability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) telecentres in rural communities in Malaysia. A cross sectional survey method was employed in the study. Data were collected from 360 respondents who were randomly selected from users of the PID and MID telecentres and analyzed using AMOS and SPSS softwa...

Scholars have argued that credible commitment institutions have important impacts on political outcomes as diverse as economic growth and social order. If commitment institutions function as theorized, then their effects should vary across individuals, groups, or states, based on their respective vulnerability to promise breaking. Yet existing empirical studies never pursue this implication. Th...