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Could social media reflect acquisitive crime patterns in London?

open access: yesJournal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2022
Embraced within the framework of crime opportunities integrated with Social Disorganization theory and Broken Windows theory, this paper intends to explore the patterns of four types of acquisitive crimes, using social media data, i.e., Twitter ...
Zenghui Wang, Yijing Li
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey of Location Prediction on Twitter

open access: yes, 2018
Locations, e.g., countries, states, cities, and point-of-interests, are central to news, emergency events, and people's daily lives. Automatic identification of locations associated with or mentioned in documents has been explored for decades.
Han, Jialong, Sun, Aixin, Zheng, Xin
core   +1 more source

Joint Promotion Partner Recommendation Systems Using Data from Location-Based Social Networks

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
Joint promotion is a valuable business strategy that enables companies to attract more customers at lower operational cost. However, finding a suitable partner can be extremely difficult.
Yi-Chung Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hoodsquare: Modeling and Recommending Neighborhoods in Location-based Social Networks

open access: yes, 2013
Information garnered from activity on location-based social networks can be harnessed to characterize urban spaces and organize them into neighborhoods.
Mascolo, Cecilia   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life

open access: yesArchitecture_MPS, 2018
Foursquare was a mobile social networking application that enabled people to share location with friends in the form of “check-ins.” The visualization of surrounding known social connections as well as unknown others has the potential to impact how ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Friend and POI recommendation based on social trust cluster in location-based social networks

open access: yesEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019
Friend and point-of-interest (POI) recommendation are two primary individual services in location-based social networks (LBSNs). Major social platforms such as Foursquare and Instagram are all capable of recommending friends or POIs to individuals ...
Jinghua Zhu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

GeoIntelligence: Data Mining Locational Social Media Content for Profiling and Information Gathering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The current social media landscape has resulted in a situation where people are encouraged to share a greater amount of information about their day-to-day lives than ever before.
Baatard, Gregory, Hannay, Peter
core   +1 more source

Geo-Spotting: Mining Online Location-based Services for Optimal Retail Store Placement

open access: yes, 2014
The problem of identifying the optimal location for a new retail store has been the focus of past research, especially in the field of land economy, due to its importance in the success of a business.
Karamshuk, Dmytro   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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