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The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on 576 interviews with incarcerated men and 131 correctional staff across five Western Canadian prisons, we reconceptualize the prison code as subcultural law, documenting the “informal prisoner justice system” as its enforcement arm. Although scholars have treated the code primarily as cultural values prescribing loyalty, silence, and
Luca Berardi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lending Relationships Along Ownership Lines: Institutional Cross‐Ownership and Bank Loan Contracts Relations de prêt selon les structures de propriété : propriété croisée institutionnelle et contrats de prêt bancaire

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We find that banking relationships built through institutional cross‐ownership influence the granting of loans as well as loan contract terms. Firms that are newly added to institutional cross‐owners' portfolios are more likely to borrow from banks that previously issued loans to other firms within the same portfolio.
Zhiming Ma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to Spread a Rumor

open access: yes, 2019
We study the problem of randomized information dissemination in networks. We compare the now standard PUSH-PULL protocol, with agent-based alternatives where information is disseminated by a collection of agents performing independent random walks. In the VISIT-EXCHANGE protocol, both nodes and agents store information, and each time an agent visits a ...
Giakkoupis, George   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Rumor evolution in social networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The social network is a main tunnel of rumor spreading. Previous studies concentrated on a static rumor spreading. The content of the rumor is invariable during the whole spreading process.
Guan, J, Zhou, S, Zhang, Y, Zhang, Z
core  

Investigating proxies for retail investor attention in financial markets

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 521-550, March 2025.
Abstract Investor attention influences financial markets but “depends on where you search” (Ben‐Rephael et al., The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, 30, 3009). We explore various retail investor attention proxies and their correlations with company characteristics and market reactions.
Daniel Cahill   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rumor source detection for rumor spreading on random increasing trees

open access: yesElectronic Communications in Probability, 2015
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Fuchs, Michael, Yu, Pei-Duo
openaire   +2 more sources

Rumor spreading model considering rumor’s attraction in heterogeneous social networks

open access: yes, 2018
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. In this paper, we propose a modified susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model with introduction of rumor’s attraction and establish corresponding mean-field equations to characterize the dynamics of SIR model on ...
Song, B, Xia, LL, Zhang, L
core   +1 more source

Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Rumor Processes on N [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We study four discrete-time stochastic systems on N, modeling processes of rumor spreading. The involved individuals can either have an active or a passive role, speaking up or asking for the rumor.
Mauricio Zuluaga   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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