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Several key characteristics of social media through which users create virtual identities affect their psychological experiences. One of the most important ways for doing this is the use of the profile picture. This research is a follow-up study ofWu, Huang, and Yuan’s (2015), and it further examines Taiwanese, Chinese and International students’ choices of profile pictures and what their motivations are. Gender plays a role in determining the choice of profile picture. The study also found out that Taiwanese students, Chinese students, and International students are drawn towards different type of profile pictures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The capability of learners to work cooperatively and to coordinate efforts in a team is becoming more important to the success of any job and advancement of knowledge. In cooperative learning, the literature regarding the impact of social technologies is controversial. Because of this controversy, the object of this study is to examine students' experiences and feedback regarding teamwork in cooperative simulation interactions. The research object was addressed in a two-phase study with an experimental design. The participants were 328 students of 6 classes from a large city in China. In this experiment, communication through face-to-face encounters, mobile instant messaging, and combinations thereof were executed based on qualitative and quantitative data. Our research results describe the differences between experimental treatments. Various relevant teaching implications are discussed as well. • Cooperative simulation is enabled by social interaction. • This study examines student's experience in cooperative simulation interactions. • Participants advocated for face-to-face interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facebook has been gaining popularity ever since it was first introduced and offers the user the chance for self-presentation. This study examines the motivations behind the choice of a profile picture and the image of the user that it gives out. The research was conducted in the form of an on-site visual study evaluating the profile pictures of Facebook’s users. Relations between profile pictures and user’s personality were examined. User personalities were found to have an influence on choice of profile pictures and profile pictures were found to reflect the user’s personality. Our study supports the theory of collaborative learning through learning from peers as results shows that other’s choice of profile pictures affects viewer’s own future choice of profile picture. If they like the impression made by a particular type of profile picture, they are likely to learn from it and upload the same type of profile picture with the aim of sending the same positive impression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transportation problems faced by the elderly and people with disabilities have received attention from policymakers and practitioners. Eden Social Welfare Foundation (Eden) has observed the challenges and expectations from the elderly and people with disabilities while operating Rehabuses and long-term care services in Taiwan. This study presents a social business model for people with disabilities based on Eden's mobile-based service platform for barrier-free transportation. This social business model illustrates how information and communication technology (ICT) is integrated with transport service providers and government resources to satisfy the transportation needs of disabled people. • Propose a social business model for barrier-free transportation. • Integrate service providers and government resources to build a sharing platform. • Satisfy the transportation needs of people with disabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the public content on the websites of targeted universities in North America and English speaking-Europe to examine their commitment to education in sustainable transportation. Analyzing about 5000 shows that most of them were worth three credits, more sustainable transportation courses were offered to graduate students than to undergraduates, lecturing was the most common teaching method, and, on average, North American universities offered more sustainable transport courses than did their European counterparts. Finally, the environmental issue was emphasized and discussed far more than the economic and social issues in the sustainable transport context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: To identify new transglycosylase inhibitors with potent anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) activities, a high-throughput screening against Staphylococcus aureus was conducted to look for antibacterial cores in our 2M compound library that consists of natural products, proprietary collection, and synthetic molecules. About 3600 hits were identified from the primary screening and the subsequent confirmation resulted in a total of 252 compounds in 84 clusters which showed anti-MRSA activities with MIC values as low as 0.1μg/ml. Subsequent screening targeting bacterial transglycosylase identified a salicylanilide-based core that inhibited the lipid II polymerization and the moenomycin-binding activities of transglycosylase. Among the collected analogues, potent inhibitors with the IC50 values below 10μM against transglycosylase were identified. The non-carbonhydrate scaffold reported in this study suggests a new direction for development of bacterial transglycosylase inhibitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]