Modeling Spatial Social Complex Networks for Dynamical Processes by Shandeepa Wickramasinghe, Onyekachukwu Onyerikwu, Jie Sun, Daniel ben-Avraham

“…The study of social networks—where people are located, geographically, and how they might be connected to one another—is a current hot topic of interest, because of its immediate relevance to important applications, from devising efficient immunization techniques for the arrest of epidemics to the design of better transportation and city planning paradigms to the understanding of how rumors and opinions spread and take shape over time. We develop a Spatial Social Complex Network (SSCN) model that captures not only essential connectivity features of real-life social networks, including a heavy-tailed degree distribution and high clustering, but also the spatial location of individuals, reproducing Zipf’s law for the distribution of city populations as well as other observed hallmarks. …”
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Measurement of Prosocial Reasoning among Chinese Adolescents by Frank H. Y. Lai, Andrew M. H. Siu, Chewtyn C. H. Chan, Daniel T. L. Shek

“…Upon revisions according to the expert opinions, the Chinese PROM demonstrated good content validity, “good-to-very good test-retest” reliability, and internal consistency. …”
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Vocational extension strategy aimed at the professional training of dental careers students by Judith Áucar López, Maitee Lajes Ugarte

“…This problem, in direct relation to vocational guidance, can be mitigated with actions such as the promotion of university outreach activities to school populations, which in turn allow the integral development of university students.…”
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Ecuadorian University Students’ Perception and Attitude Regarding Vaccination against COVID-19 by Lexter Mihalache, Jhonatan Miguel Siguencia Muñoz, Álvaro Paúl Moina Veloz

“…Timely information, personalized to the sociocultural level of the populations, turned out to be an effective strategy in changing opinions regarding vaccination.…”
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Overcrowding in prisons: Health and legal implications by Eva Nudd, Maha Aon, Kalliopi Kambanella, Marie Brasholt

“…Methods: Desk study based on literature searches in medical (Pubmed and Medline) and legal sources, including Google Scholar on legal opinions, Global Lex and decisions of UN treaty bodies and regional human rights mechanisms supplemented by online searches for grey literature. …”
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Identifikasi Pengaruh Pandemi Covid-19 terhadap Perilaku Pengguna Twitter dengan Pendekatan Social Network Analysis by Diana Purwitasari, Apriantoni Apriantoni, Agus Budi Raharjo

“…Twitter, media sosial yang fleksibel untuk berdiskusi dan bertukar pendapat, menjadi salah satu media populer dalam menyebarluaskan informasi COVID-19 secara dinamis dan up-to-date. …”
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The current state of the quality of homeopathic clinical research by Patricia M. Herman, Cindy C. Crawford, Margaret A. Maglione, Sydne J. Newberry, Paul S. Amieux, Kimberlee Blyden-Taylor, Raheleh Khorsan, Marcia Prenguber, Elizabeth Rice, Andy Shollar, Tiesha Tyson, Nazanin Vassighi, Ian D. Coulter

“…Regarding model validity, fewer than two-thirds of the studies were consistent with homeopathic principles.Our expert panel was mixed on whether the homeopathic research literature was missing important populations and/or conditions, and they suggested a variety of priority areas. …”
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The relationship between self-perception of smile aesthetics and personality traits of university students: A cross-sectional study by Claudia Denisse Piscoche-Rodríguez, Livia Sonia Zambrano de la Peña, Maria Eugenia Guerrero, Dian Agustin Wahjuningrum, Novaldy Wahjudianto, Karissa Navita Saragih

“…In other words, the students were open to suggestions, able to express their opinions, respectful of others, willing to embrace change, and capable of adapting to such change. …”
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