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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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Opinion manipulation on Farsi Twitter
Scientific 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
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Social networks and resilience in work teams
, 2022 This chapter explores social networks and resilience in an organizational context, focusing on work teams and their strategies for preparing, managing and learning from adversities. To date, only few studies have considered social networks in relation to
Pauksztat, Birgit,, Pauksztat, Birgit
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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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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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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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Dynamics of private social networks [PDF]
, 2014 Social networks, have been a significant turning point in ways individuals and companies interact. Various research has also revolved around public social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook.
Mifsud, Jonathan, Montebello, Matthew
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Beyond the Core: Who Has Larger Social Networks? [PDF]
, 2021 The sociological literature on social networks overwhelmingly considers the number of core social contacts. Social networks, however, reach far beyond this small number of social ties.
Hofstra, Bas +5 more
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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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Frontiers in Zoology, 2018 Host-symbiont interactions are embedded in ecological communities and range from unspecific to highly specific relationships. Army ants and their arthropod guests represent a fascinating example of species-rich host-symbiont associations where host ...
Christoph von Beeren +5 more
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