With the recent advances of Internet Things, and increasing accessibility ubiquitous computing resources mobile devices, prevalence rich media contents, ensuing social, economic, cultural changes, technology applications have evolved quickly over past decade. They now go beyond personal computing, facilitating collaboration social interactions in general, causing a quick proliferation relations...

There is a lack of published research data on the goal conversions of the real e-commerce systems and e-commerce users’ behavior in Macedonia and the Balkan countries. We present the findings of the 6 months research on the strategies applied on the regional e-commerce online bookstore Kupikniga.mk. Several conversion channels and combination funnels were applied, like paper flyers, TV and news...

BACKGROUND High quality counseling of potential parents is needed in the process of disclosure to donor offspring, which is important for the child and for family relationships. We performed a search for facts to identify the role of counseling in couples undergoing gamete donation. METHODS We systematically searched Pubmed, EMBASE and Psychinfo. Studies were included if they reported on coun...

introduction: social capital is multidimensional and it is about the value of social networks and relations between people. social capital refers to the relationships that forms the quality and quantity of the society’s social interactions. this study was designed to determine the relationship between social capital and faculty member’s job satisfaction in shiraz medical school. method: social ...

Working from a social relationship and life course perspective, we provide generalizable population-based evidence on partnered sexuality linked to cardiovascular risk in later life using national longitudinal data from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) (N = 2,204). We consider characteristics of partnered sexuality of older men and women, particularly sexual activity a...

The current industry standard for recommender system uses variants of collaborative filtering (CF), where recipient-source relationships are determined by the extent to which the recipient and source share interests. This research attempts to improve the performance of these CF recommender systems by identifying additional measures of relationship indicators based on theories from communication...

Incentivized social advertising, an emerging marketing model, provides monetization opportunities not only to the owners of the social networking platforms but also to their influential users by offering a “cut” on the advertising revenue. We consider a social network (the host) that sells ad-engagements to advertisers by inserting their ads, in the form of promoted posts, into the feeds of car...