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Correction to: Measuring school children’s attitudes toward immigrants in Switzerland and Poland

open access: yesMeasurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2021
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Charlotte Clara Becker   +4 more
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Uptake and predictors of colonoscopy use in family members not participating in cascade genetic testing for Lynch syndrome

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Cascade genetic testing provides a method to appropriately focus colonoscopy use in families with Lynch syndrome (LS). However, research suggests that up to two-thirds at risk to inherit LS don’t participate.
Donald W. Hadley   +5 more
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Modelos estocásticos orientados en el actor utilizando RSiena (III).

open access: yesREDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, 2022
Este texto es el tercer guión de una serie de seis guiones escritos en el lenguaje y ambiente de programación R que conjuntamente constituyen la introducción al software RSiena para estimar modelos estocásticos orientados en el actor para redes ...
Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, Alvaro Uzaheta
doaj   +1 more source

Nestedness Maximization in Complex Networks through the Fitness-Complexity Algorithm

open access: yesEntropy, 2018
Nestedness refers to the structural property of complex networks that the neighborhood of a given node is a subset of the neighborhoods of better-connected nodes.
Jian-Hong Lin   +2 more
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Opinion manipulation on Farsi Twitter

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
For Iranians and the Iranian diaspora, the Farsi Twittersphere provides an important alternative to state media and an outlet for political discourse. But this understudied online space has become an opinion manipulation battleground, with diverse actors
Amirhossein Farzam   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Insurance Networks [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and time-constant as well as time-varying confounders.
Markussen, Simen, Røed, Knut
openaire   +3 more sources

Analysing the sensitivity of nestedness detection methods

open access: yesApplied Network Science, 2017
Many bipartite and unipartite real-world networks display a nested structure. Examples pervade different disciplines: biological ecosystems (e.g. mutualistic networks), economic networks (e.g. manufactures and contractors networks) to financial networks (
Alexander Grimm, Claudio J. Tessone
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Measuring school children’s attitudes toward immigrants in Switzerland and Poland

open access: yesMeasurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2020
For decades, social scientists have been interested in studying individual attitudes toward ethnic minorities or immigrants and their development over time. Whereas these attitudes have been commonly studied among adults, little is known about children’s
Charlotte Clara Becker   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research note: Bolsonaro’s firehose: How Covid-19 disinformation on WhatsApp was used to fight a government political crisis in Brazil

open access: yesHarvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021
Brazil has one of the highest rates of cases and deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the world. Two factors contributed to the high rates: the Brazilian government underestimated the pandemic and a large amount of disinformation was spread through social ...
Felipe Bonow Soares   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Limits of Risk Predictability in a Cascading Alternating Renewal Process Model

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Most risk analysis models systematically underestimate the probability and impact of catastrophic events (e.g., economic crises, natural disasters, and terrorism) by not taking into account interconnectivity and interdependence of risks.
Xin Lin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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