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The role of online social networks in improving health literacy and medication adherence among people living with HIV/AIDS in Iran: Development of a conceptual model. [PDF]
Online social networks have been used to enhance human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention, diagnosis, and treatment programs worldwide.
Azam Bazrafshani +3 more
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Role-Aware Information Spread in Online Social Networks [PDF]
Understanding the complex process of information spread in online social networks (OSNs) enables the efficient maximization/minimization of the spread of useful/harmful information.
Alon Bartal, Kathleen M. Jagodnik
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Social network analysis has been widely used in various fields including online health communities. However, it is still a challenge to understand how patients’ individual characteristics and online behaviors impact the formation of online health social ...
Yingjie Lu +3 more
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Online Social Networks and Women’s Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study between Iran and Hungary
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of online social networks on women’s entrepreneurship in Hungary and Iran in a comparative study. The statistical population of the present study consists of women entrepreneurs active in the field of ...
Parisa Bouzari +3 more
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From Offline Social Networks to Online Social Networks: Changes in Entrepreneurship [PDF]
The paper reviewed studies of entrepreneurship based on the emergency of online social networks. Similar to offline social networks, entrepreneurs’ online social networks have their own unique characteristics.
Yang SONG
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A time evolving online social network generation algorithm
The rapid growth of online social media usage in our daily lives has increased the importance of analyzing the dynamics of online social networks. However, the dynamic data of existing online social media platforms are not readily accessible.
Pouyan Shirzadian +4 more
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How to network in online social networks [PDF]
In this paper, we consider how to maximize users' influence in Online Social Networks (OSNs) by exploiting social relationships only. Our first contribution is to extend to OSNs the model of Kempe et al. [1] on the propagation of information in a social network and to show that a greedy algorithm is a good approximation of the optimal algorithm that is
Neglia, Giovanni +3 more
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Many studies have shown that passive use of mobile social networks affects people's physical and mental health. However, few studies have explored the association between neuroticism and passive use of social networks, and the mediating factors that may ...
SiWei Zhang, Qi Wu, RenFu Liu
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How do online social networks grow? [PDF]
Online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Gowalla allow people to communicate and interact across borders. In past years online social networks have become increasingly important for studying the behavior of individuals, group formation, and ...
Konglin Zhu +3 more
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A method to evaluate the reliability of social media data for social network analysis [PDF]
In order to study the effects of Online Social Network (OSN) activity on real-world offline events, researchers need access to OSN data, the reliability of which has particular implications for social network analysis.
Weber, D. +3 more
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