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Harvard 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
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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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Measuring school children’s attitudes toward immigrants in Switzerland and Poland
Measurement 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
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Limits of Risk Predictability in a Cascading Alternating Renewal Process Model
Scientific 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
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Applied Network Science, 2022 The following article aims to understand the prevalence of ascribed social characteristics such as the role of gender and the country of institutional affiliation of the authors in two prominent journals of social network science. Accordingly, we explore
Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, Francisca Ortiz
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Social networks as inauthentic sociality [PDF]
, 2014 This article argues that social networks constitute an inauthentic form of sociality. The two component concepts of this claim, inauthenticity and sociality, are explored in order to avoid some widespread misinterpretations. Inauthenticity is examined on
Staehler, Tanja
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Inequality is rising where social network segregation interacts with urban topology
Nature Communications, 2021 Not much is known about the joint relationships between social network structure, urban geography, and inequality. Here, the authors analyze an online social network and find that the fragmentation of social networks is significantly higher in towns in ...
Gergő Tóth +6 more
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Survey Research Methods, 2023 Schwartz (2004) proposed a theory of seven cultural value orientations, ordered in a circle, that form three cultural value dimensions, hierarchy vs. egalitarianism, mastery vs. harmony, and autonomy vs.
Hermann Duelmer +4 more
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Bitcoin Transaction Networks: An Overview of Recent Results
Frontiers in Physics, 2020 Cryptocurrencies are distributed systems that allow exchanges of native (and non-) tokens between participants. The availability of the complete historical bookkeeping opens up an unprecedented possibility: that of understanding the evolution of a ...
Nicoló Vallarano +3 more
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Frontiers in Zoology, 2021 Background Ant colonies are plagued by a diversity of arthropod guests, which adopt various strategies to avoid or to withstand host attacks. Chemical mimicry of host recognition cues is, for example, a common integration strategy of ant guests.
Christoph von Beeren +5 more
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