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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, Alaa Moussawi, Gyorgy Korniss, Jonathan Z. Bakdash, Boleslaw K. Szymanski   +4 more
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A Generational Approach to the Crisis Parties: Common Origins and Common Features [PDF]

Acta Politologica
Over the past two decades, Western Europe has witnessed a boom in new political parties that have obtained significant electoral results, naturally embracing digital technologies and seeking to challenge their traditional counterparts by reconnecting ...
Jorge Bronet, Rosa Borge
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Gender and researchers with institutional affiliations in the global south/north in social network science

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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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, Claudio J. Tessone, Claudio J. Tessone, Tiziano Squartini   +3 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, Johannes Wachs, Riccardo Di Clemente, Ákos Jakobi, Bence Ságvári, János Kertész, Balázs Lengyel   +6 more
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Testing Schwartz’s Model of Cultural Value Orientations in Europe with the European Social Survey: An Empirical Comparison of Additive Indexes with Factor Scores

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, Shalom H. Schwartz, Jan Cieciuch, Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt   +4 more
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Multiple phenotypic traits as triggers of host attacks towards ant symbionts: body size, morphological gestalt, and chemical mimicry accuracy

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, Adrian Brückner, Philipp O. Hoenle, Bryan Ospina-Jara, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, Nico Blüthgen   +5 more
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Religious Involvement Across Europe: Examining its Measurement Comparability

Survey Research Methods, 2022
Religion permeates many aspects of individuals’ lives and interplays with a multitude of other theoretical constructs of interest for researchers.
Alisa Remizova, Eldad Davidov, Maksim Rudnev   +2 more
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Chemical and behavioral integration of army ant-associated rove beetles – a comparison between specialists and generalists

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, Adrian Brückner, Munetoshi Maruyama, Griffin Burke, Jana Wieschollek, Daniel J. C. Kronauer   +5 more
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Cybersecurity on US social networks

Американська історія і політика, 2017
The role and influence of social networks on American society is analyzed in this article. Cyber-attacks that threaten social activities as well as other risks for business, organizations, institutions, employers and employees are detected.
Olga Zernetska
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