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Eric Rice - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • social Networking Technology use and engagement in hiv related risk and protective behaviors among homeless youth
    Journal of Health Communication, 2016
    Co-Authors: Anamika Barmanadhikari, Eric Rice, Kimberly Bender, Rebecca Lengnickhall, Amanda Yoshiokamaxwell, Harmony Rhoades
    Abstract:

    Preliminary studies with homeless youth have found surprisingly pervasive social media use and suggest that youth’s online interactions may be associated with their HIV-related risk and protective behaviors. As homeless youth are transient and difficult to engage in place-based services, social media may represent a novel venue for intervention. A critical 1st step in intervention development is gaining greater understanding of how homeless youth use social media, especially as it relates to who they connect to and around what topics. Given the salience of social Networking sites in the lives of these otherwise difficult-to-reach adolescents, and their potential to disseminate prevention interventions, this study assessed associations between online social Networking Technology use and HIV risk behaviors among homeless youth in Los Angeles, California. Homeless youth ages 13 through 24 (N = 1,046) were recruited through 3 drop-in centers and surveyed about their social media use and self-reported HIV-rela...

  • homeless but connected the role of heterogeneous social network ties and social Networking Technology in the mental health outcomes of street living adolescents
    Community Mental Health Journal, 2012
    Co-Authors: Eric Rice, Seth Kurzban, Diana Ray
    Abstract:

    Although social integration tends to have positive effects on the mental health of housed adolescents, the role of homeless adolescents’ social networks is more ambiguous. Social network data were collected from 136 homeless adolescents in Hollywood, California to examine how network ties are associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression. Face-to-face relationships with street-based peers were a risk factor for both anxiety and depression, while contacting home-based friends through social Networking Technology was found to be protective for depression. Community-based and public agencies serving homeless adolescents should consider facilitating the maintenance of these protective relationships by providing internet access.

  • Social Networking Technology, Social Network Composition, and Reductions in Substance Use Among Homeless Adolescents
    Prevention Science, 2011
    Co-Authors: Eric Rice, Norweeta G. Milburn, William Monro
    Abstract:

    Peer-based prevention programs for homeless youth are complicated by the potential for reinforcing high-risk behaviors among participants. The goal of this study is to understand how homeless youth could be linked to positive peers in prevention programming by understanding where in social and physical space positive peers for homeless youth are located, how these ties are associated with substance use, and the role of social Networking technologies (e.g., internet and cell phones) in this process. Personal social network data were collected from 136 homeless adolescents in Los Angeles, CA. Respondents reported on composition of their social networks with respect to: home-based peers and parents (accessed via social Networking Technology; e.g., the internet, cell phone, texting), homeless peers and agency staff (accessed face-to-face) and whether or not network members were substance-using or non-substance-using. Associations between respondent’s lifetime cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine use and recent (previous 30 days) alcohol and marijuana use were assessed by the number of non-substance-using versus substance-using ties in multivariate linear regression models. 43% of adolescents reported a non-substance-using home-based tie. More of these ties were associated with less recent alcohol use. 62% of adolescents reported a substance-using homeless tie. More of these ties were associated with more recent marijuana use as well as more lifetime heroin and methamphetamine use. For homeless youth, who are physically disconnected from positive peers, social Networking technologies can be used to facilitate the sorts of positive social ties that effective peer-based prevention programs require.

  • the positive role of social networks and social Networking Technology in the condom using behaviors of homeless young people
    Public Health Reports, 2010
    Co-Authors: Eric Rice
    Abstract:

    OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of condom-using peers in the social networks of homeless young people differences in behaviors were assessed based on the social location of ties (home-based vs. street-based) and how those ties are maintained (face-to-face vs. via social Networking Technology). METHODS: "Ego-centric" social network data were collected from 103 currently sexually active homeless young people aged 16-26 years in Los Angeles California. Associations between condom use and the condom-using behaviors of social network influences were assessed using standard logistic regression. RESULTS: About 52% of respondents had a street-based peer who was a condom user. Having such a peer was associated with a 70% reduction in the odds of having unprotected sex at last intercourse. About 22% of respondents had a condom-using home-based peer with whom they communicated only via social Networking Technology. Having such a peer was associated with a 90% reduction in risky sexual behavior and a 3.5 times increase in safer sex behavior. CONCLUSION: The study revealed several implications for new human immunodeficiency virus-prevention interventions that mobilize these networks and social Networking technologies.

Fabrizio Gagliardi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • building an infrastructure for scientific grid computing status and goals of the egee project
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2005
    Co-Authors: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Bob Jones, Francois Grey, Marcelian Begin, Matti Heikkurinen
    Abstract:

    The state of computer and Networking Technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.

  • building an infrastructure for scientific grid computing status and goals of the egee project
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2005
    Co-Authors: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Francois Grey, Ob Jones, Marcelia Egi, Matti Heikkurine
    Abstract:

    The state of computer and Networking Technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.

Matti Heikkurine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • building an infrastructure for scientific grid computing status and goals of the egee project
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2005
    Co-Authors: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Francois Grey, Ob Jones, Marcelia Egi, Matti Heikkurine
    Abstract:

    The state of computer and Networking Technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.

Matti Heikkurinen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • building an infrastructure for scientific grid computing status and goals of the egee project
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2005
    Co-Authors: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Bob Jones, Francois Grey, Marcelian Begin, Matti Heikkurinen
    Abstract:

    The state of computer and Networking Technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.

Francois Grey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • building an infrastructure for scientific grid computing status and goals of the egee project
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2005
    Co-Authors: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Bob Jones, Francois Grey, Marcelian Begin, Matti Heikkurinen
    Abstract:

    The state of computer and Networking Technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.

  • building an infrastructure for scientific grid computing status and goals of the egee project
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2005
    Co-Authors: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Francois Grey, Ob Jones, Marcelia Egi, Matti Heikkurine
    Abstract:

    The state of computer and Networking Technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.