Network Weirdness: Exploring the Origins of Network Paradoxes
, 2014 Social networks have many counter-intuitive properties, including the "friendship paradox" that states, on average, your friends have more friends than you do. Recently, a variety of other paradoxes were demonstrated in online social networks. This paper
Hodas, Nathan O. +2 more
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The reliability, validity, and accuracy of self-reported absenteeism from work: a meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2014 Because of a variety of access limitations, self-reported absenteeism from work is often employed in research concerning health, organizational behavior, and economics, and it is ubiquitous in large scale population surveys in these domains. Several well
Johns, Gary, Miraglia, Mariella
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Beyond capital ideals : restoring banking stability [PDF]
The authors examine why emerging markets, in particular, are susceptible to and affected by financial difficulties. They show that these difficulties have a richer, more complex structure than they are sometimes believed to have - with marked information
Caprio, Gerard, Jr., Honohan, Patrick
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Spartan Daily, May 14, 1993 [PDF]
, 1993 Volume 100, Issue 68https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8426/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Response and Responsibility - Chapter 1 of The Feeling Intellect: Reading the Bible with C.S. Lewis
, 2010 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin\u27s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, Greetings, favored one! The
Newell, Roger
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Partition into heapable sequences, heap tableaux and a multiset extension of Hammersley's process
, 2015 We investigate partitioning of integer sequences into heapable subsequences (previously defined and established by Mitzenmacher et al). We show that an extension of patience sorting computes the decomposition into a minimal number of heapable ...
Bonchis, Cosmin, Istrate, Gabriel
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INTERNAL CONSISTENCY IN MODELS OF OPTIMAL RESOURCE USE UNDER UNCERTAINTY [PDF]
For several decades, economists have been concerned with the problem of optimal resource use under uncertainty. In many studies, researchers assume that prices evolve according to an exogenous stochastic process and solve the corresponding dynamic ...
Plantinga, Andrew J., Provencher, Bill
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Professional prognosticators : Is forecasting a science or an art? [PDF]
Economic indicators ; Economic ...
Doug Campbell
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Reversed better-than-average effect in direct comparisons of nonsocial stimuli depends on the set size [PDF]
, 2013 Studies on direct comparative judgments typically show that, for items that are positively evaluated, a single item randomly drawn from a larger set of similar items tends to be judged as better than average (the BTA effect).
Jakub Niewiarowski +3 more
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Letter to the Editor: More Than One-third of Orthopaedic Applicants Are in the Top 10%: The Standardized Letter of Recommendation and Evaluation of Orthopaedic Resident Applicants. [PDF]
Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2021 London DA.
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