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The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2020 Objectives The disruption and contraction of older adults’ social networks are among the less discussed consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to provide an evidence-based commentary on racial/ethnic disparities in social network ...
G. Gauthier +4 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 +2 more
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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 +5 more
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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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, 2021 Soziologie : Sociology in the German-Speaking World : Special Issue Soziologische Revue 2020 / Edited by Betina Hollstein, Rainer Greshoff, Uwe Schimank, and Anja Weiß; München ; Wien : De Gruyter 415-428 (2021).
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Social GAN: Socially Acceptable Trajectories with Generative Adversarial Networks [PDF]
2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2018 Understanding human motion behavior is critical for autonomous moving platforms (like self-driving cars and social robots) if they are to navigate human-centric environments.
Agrim Gupta +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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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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Social norms in networks [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2018 Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this paper, we investigate how social norms affect individual effort, aggregate effort, and welfare. While individual productivity always positively affects own effort and utility, we show that taste for ...
Philip Ushchev +3 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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