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Social networks of British-Bangladeshi young women [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Akter Sina (also known as Sina Akter) and awarded by Brunel University.This research is about the Social Networks and Social Capital of British-Bangladeshi Young Women in relation to ...
Akter, Sina
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Social networks, social capital and poverty: panacea or placebo? [PDF]

, 2015
Our understanding of the links between social networks and the causes or solutions to poverty have been enhanced through theoretical and empirical research on the concept of social capital.
Besemer, Kirsten, Matthews, P, Matthews, Peter, Besemer, K   +3 more
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Opportunistic Social Networks for Academia [PDF]

, 2011
This paper begins by describing the behavioural shift in online interactivity and how it has empowered the growth of online social networks and emergent forms of social awareness.
Tiropanis, Thanassis, Leedham, James, Thanassis Tiropanis, James Leedham   +3 more
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Coaching legacies: influence propagation through temporal social networks in the Australian Football League

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023
We study the lineage network of coaches in the Australian Football League (AFL) using a novel process of influence propagation through temporal social networks.
Gordana Marmulla, Geoff Dickson, Hagen Wäsche, Ulrik Brandes   +3 more
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Nestedness Maximization in Complex Networks through the Fitness-Complexity Algorithm

Entropy, 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, Claudio Juan Tessone, Manuel Sebastian Mariani   +2 more
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Analysing the sensitivity of nestedness detection methods

Applied 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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Uptake and predictors of colonoscopy use in family members not participating in cascade genetic testing for Lynch syndrome

Scientific 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, Dina Eliezer, Yonit Addissie, Andrea Goergen, Sato Ashida, Laura Koehly   +5 more
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Correction to: Measuring school children’s attitudes toward immigrants in Switzerland and Poland

Measurement 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, Eldad Davidov, Jan Cieciuch, René Algesheimer, Martin Kindschi   +4 more
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Modelos estocásticos orientados en el actor utilizando RSiena (III).

REDES: 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
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A method to evaluate the reliability of social media data for social network analysis [PDF]

, 2020
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., Nasim, M., Mitchell, L., Falzon, L.   +3 more
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