Title: Remote Patient Monitoring , M-Health.

Abstract:

Humans are well known for their ability to keep track of social debts over extended periods of time, and for their tendency to preferentially cooperate with closely bonded partners. Non-human primates have been shown to cooperate with kin and non-kin, and reciprocate helpful acts. However, there is ongoing debate over whether they keep track of previous interactions and, if so, whether they can do it over extended periods of time, or are constrained to finalize exchanges within a single encounter. In this study, we used 3000 hours of all-day focal follows of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) to investigate whether both females and males reciprocate grooming within a single interaction, throughout the day, or over longer periods of time. We found that grooming was reciprocated more symmetrically when measured on a long-term, rather than on an immediate or short-term basis. Random giving, general allocation of grooming efforts, similarities among individuals and kinship do not appear to explain these highly reciprocal exchanges. Previously collected consecutive focal follows of single individuals revealed that dyads groomed an average of once every 7 days. Our findings strongly suggest that chimpanzees, similar to humans, are able to keep track of past social interactions, at least for a one-week period, and balance services over repeated encounters.

Biography:

Dr. Cristina Gomes is a graduate in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, I studied specialties in Public Health, Worker Health and Human Ecology at the National School of Public Health of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. I studied the Master's degree in Population and Development at Flacso Mexico and the doctorate in Population from the Colegio de México. I graduated in Executive Management, Negotiation and Strategic Thinking from Cornell University. In 2011, I was nominated for the Marquis Who's Who in the World Award and was elected to the International Committee of the Conference on Family Research (CFR) of the International Association of Sociology (ISA) for the period 2006-2010. My experience is concentrated in the area of Population and Development, particularly in public policies aimed at young people, women, indigenous people and the elderly, in the areas of poverty, inequality, family, protection and social security. In the last 18 years I have worked in various international organizations. From 2006 to 2010 I worked at the United Nations as Regional Advisor on Population and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); from 1998 to 2008 at FLACSO-Mexico, for the Ford Foundation and the Population Council. His topics of interest are poverty, inequalities, discrimination, racism and social policies. He has developed evaluations of social policies in Mexico and Brazil, the most recent on the National Policy on Health of the Black Population.