In a participant-observer ethnographic study, the researcher offers evidence from 10 years of observation of the Josh Groban fandom as an example of fans becoming friendly acquaintances of celebrities.Contrary to the way much of the psychological literature depicts fans, as celebrity worshippers or stalkers, the largest percentage of the fans obser
Abstract Introduction Mental health is considered a major public health issue.Non-psychiatric physicians often engage in the treatment of mental disorders.The aim of this study was to describe psychiatric drug prescription knowledge and practices among non-psychiatric specialists and evaluate their training needs.Methods A descriptive cross-section
This paper explores the resources and support that parents in the UK are able to access through their social networks, and analyses how these networks are organized and sustained.Concern over a perceived demise in community relations and trust have driven many recent UK family policy initiatives and have underpinned proposals to increase parenting
Transportation Problem (TP) is an important network structured linear programming problem that arises in several contexts and has deservedly received a great deal of attention in the literature.The central concept in this problem is to find the least total transportation cost of a commodity in order to satisfy demands at destinations using availabl