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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 +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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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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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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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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Collaboration in Social Networks [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 The very notion of social network implies that linked individuals interact repeatedly with each other. This notion allows them not only to learn successful strategies and adapt to them, but also to condition their own behavior on the behavior of others, in a strategic forward looking manner.
Luca Dall'Asta +2 more
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Social hierarchies and social networks in humans [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 Abstract Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations. In humans, where there are multiple culturally valued axes of distinction, social hierarchies can take a variety of forms and need not rest on dominance relations. Consequently, humans navigate multiple domains of status, i.e.
Daniel Redhead, Eleanor A. Power
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The ties that bind? Social networks of nursing staff and staff's behaviour towards residents with dementia [PDF]
, 2013 This study investigated social networks of nursing staff and staff's behaviour towards residents with dementia. We focused on two types of networks: communication networks among staff, and networks between nursing staff and relatives/acquaintances of ...
Groenewegen, P.P. +10 more
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On compressing social networks [PDF]
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 2009 Motivated by structural properties of the Web graph that support efficient data structures for in memory adjacency queries, we study the extent to which a large network can be compressed. Boldi and Vigna (WWW 2004), showed that Web graphs can be compressed down to three bits of storage per edge; we study the compressibility of social networks where ...
CHIERICHETTI, FLAVIO +5 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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