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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis and Optimal Control Strategies for a New Rumor Spreading Model with Comprehensive Interventions. [PDF]
Qual Theory Dyn Syst, 2021 Li T, Guo Y.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their ...
Susanne Y. P. Choi +4 more
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Locating source of rumor on online social networks : from rumor spreading model to algorithm
, 2017 A series of source locating algorithms have been brought up in recent studies. However, less work has been done to compare their performance on online social networks as well as the performance on multiple source detection problems.
Luo, Fan
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Direction-reversing Quasi-random Rumor Spreading with Restarts
, 2013 Doerr and Fouz [\emphAsymptotically Optimal Randomized Rumor Spreading}, ICALP 2011] presented a new quasi-random PUSH algorithm for the rumor spreading problem on complete graphs.
Winzen, Carola, Winzen, C.
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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina +4 more
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, 2021 The rumor-free equilibrium state and rumor-endemic equilibrium state are two symmetric descriptions of the status of a system. The constant spreading of rumors would affect the smooth operation of emergency management procedures and cause unnecessary ...
Raoqing Xie +6 more
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Criminology, 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
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ECRModel: An Elastic Collision-Based Rumor-Propagation Model in Online Social Networks
IEEE Access, 2016 With the rapid development of online social networks (OSN), the influence of rumor propagation on social life raises great concern. Traditional rumor-propagation models, which do not fully consider the features of OSN, are not suitable for use in OSN. In
Zhenhua Tan +5 more
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The stochastic evolution of a rumor spreading model with two distinct spread inhibiting and attitude adjusting mechanisms in a homogeneous social network. [PDF]
Physica A, 2021 Li M, Zhang H, Georgescu P, Li T.
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