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Too Centralized to Fail? A Bitcoin Network Analysis

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2021
As the title provocatively suggests, in this article we explore empirically and question on the basis of research outcomes the implications of one of the most distinctive features of Bitcoin as a digital currency: the positively advertised de ...
Fiammetta Corradi, Lorenzo Pagliaro
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Scale-free network growth by ranking [PDF]

, 2006
Network growth is currently explained through mechanisms that rely on node prestige measures, such as degree or fitness. In many real networks those who create and connect nodes do not know the prestige values of existing nodes, but only their ranking by
Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, J. Kleinberg, S. Fortunato, Santo Fortunato   +4 more
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Atrakcyjność studiów pedagogicznych w opiniach studentów – analiza porównawcza [PDF]

Edukacja Ustawiczna Dorosłych, 2019
Artykuł prezentuje badania, których celem było zdiagnozowanie opinii studentów pedagogiki na temat atrakcyjności studiów pedagogicznych. skoncentrowano się na poczuciu satysfakcji ze studiowania pedagogiki, planów odnośnie do wyboru pracy zgodnie z ...
Anna Dudak
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Treatment and management of advanced heart failure in elderly

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2019
Heart failure (HF) is a life-limiting condition, associated with high morbidity. End-stage, known as advanced heart failure (AHF), is more common among the elderly.
Nidal Tourkmani
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“Diversity’s good unless you have a Southern accent, then you’re a hick”: Self-evaluation, linguistic insecurity and symbolic domination in Middle Tennessee

Anglophonia, 2022
The linguistic variety spoken in the south of the United States (Southern American English, hereafter SAE), is a well-documented field of investigation (Farington et al., 2018; Feagin, 2018; Fridland, 2003, 2008; Labov et al., 2006; Nunnally & Bailey ...
Marc-Philippe Brunet
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Made in China [PDF]

, 2005
China has a long history in commerce and marketing. For many centuries, 'Made in China' was a high quality, prestige label imported exclusively for the royals and the rich.
Fan, Y
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Perception, prestige and PageRank

PLOS ONE, 2019
Academic esteem is difficult to quantify in objective terms. Network theory offers the opportunity to use a mathematical formalism to model both the esteem associated with an academic and the relationships between academic colleagues. Early attempts using this line of reasoning have focused on intellectual genealogy as constituted by supervisor student
David Zeitlyn, Daniel W. Hook
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Individual preferences, social mobility and electoral outcomes [PDF]

, 1990
This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male's occupation, occupational prestige of the father and ‘left/right’ score of the political party he prefers.
Graaf, Nan Dirk de, Ultee, Wout
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METHOD GAPS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVEL OF QUALITY COSMETIC SERVICES

Research on Enterprise in Modern Economy Theory and Practice, 2016
The aim of the research presented in this study is the assessment of the level of quality of services provided by selected cosmetic institute from Tricity. The Servqual method was used to determine the level of quality. The results of the study indicate
Ewa Malinowska, Kamila Domażalska
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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