Social Support Network among People Living with HIV/AIDS in Iran by Ameneh Setareh Forouzan, Zahra Jorjoran Shushtari, Homeira Sajjadi, Yahya Salimi, Masoumeh Dejman

“…This study considers social network interactions as a potential source of support for individuals living with HIV/AIDS in Iran. …”
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Improving Robustness of Biometric Identity Determination with Digital Watermarking by Juha Partala, Angelos Fylakis, Anu Pramila, Anja Keskinarkaus, Tapio Seppänen

“…This knowledge could originate, for example, from the tagging of those people on a social network. In our proposal, a single payload consists of a correction vector that can be added to the extracted biometric template to compile a nearly noiseless identity. …”
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External image of hypermarket as a factor of influence on consumer behavior by A. N. Timokhovich

“…Insufficient use of the hypermarket’s website and official Internet resources by representatives of target groups (social network accounts, mobile application) has been revealed. …”
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A TEI Schema for the Representation of Computer-mediated Communication by Michael Beißwenger, Maria Ermakova, Alexander Geyken, Lothar Lemnitzer, Angelika Storrer

“…The focus of the schema is on those CMC genres which are written and dialogic―such as forums, bulletin boards, chats, instant messaging, wiki and weblog discussions, microblogging on Twitter, and conversation on “social network” sites. The schema provides a representation format for the main structural features of CMC discourse as well as elements for the annotation of those units regarded as “typical” for language use on the Internet. …”
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Exploring the Driving Factors for Low-Carbon Development of the Construction Industry in China by Yiyu Geng, Youquan Xu, Ke Ma, Yuanyuan Li, Zhigang Zhang

“…Initially, through a comprehensive literature review and expert interviews, six distinct stakeholders and twenty-one relevant driving factors were identified. Following this, Social Network Analysis was employed to evaluate the data collected from the surveys. …”
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Elicitation Study Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour that analyses the intention to Adopt Electronic Commerce in the Elderly by Nadia Soto-Hernández, Elizabeth E. Grandón, Patricio Ramírez-Correa

“…The methodology followed can be replicated in this population to understand the use of other information technologies such as smartphones and social network sites, among others. …”
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Modeling Public Opinion Polarization in Group Behavior by Integrating SIRS-Based Information Diffusion Process by Tinggui Chen, Jiawen Shi, Jianjun Yang, Guodong Cong, Gongfa Li

“…In addition, the BA network (proposed by Barabasi and Albert) model is used as the agent adjacency model due to its closeness to the real social network structure. After that, the Monte Carlo method is applied to conduct experimental simulation. …”
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Online interaction of Olympic volunteers after the Games by M. P. Sukharkova

“…The article is devoted to the community of Olympic volunteers after the event through the study of their online activity in social network “Vkontakte”. Olympic volunteering refers to the event-oriented direction of volunteering, which is characterized by a limited period of time for the implementation of volunteering practices, but a long period of training volunteers and the opportunity for volunteers to acquire unique work experience during the organization and holding of a major sports event. …”
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Gender (im)balance in the Russian cinema: on the screen and behind the camera by Xenia Leontyeva, Olessia Koltsova, Deb Verhoeven

“…We also undertook a social network analysis (SNA) of the characters’ communications. …”
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The current problems of the digital reflection of social reality: rethinking scientific concepts by M. Kibakin, S. Grishaeva

“…Special attention has been paid to the consideration of the concept of social network of the American sociologist Richard Mark Emerson in the context of digitalization. …”
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What do the CEOs’ LinkedIn posts reveal about their mindsets towards organisational culture? A discourse analysis of LinkedIn posts by the CEOs of Swedish unicorn startups by Ona Žeimytė, Giedrė Lapinskienė

“…In an information-overloaded age, CEOs’ social network communication reflects their attitudes towards organisational culture and sends important signals to both employees and society. …”
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Future destinations: how people cured of hepatitis C using direct acting antiviral drugs progress in a new HCV-free world. A thematic analysis by Sarah R. Donaldson, Andrew Radley, John F. Dillon

“…Cure provides a mechanism to strengthen family bonds, however social networks in the wider community remain limited. …”
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Romantic pre-wedding tourism: a lucrative market for a destination’s tourism development? The example of the Dalat climatic resort in Vietnam by Anh Thư Lê

“…As this item has become one of the essential memorial elements of the entire wedding, it is no longer simply a private keepsake and must be original in order to impress guests and the couple’s social network. Such is its importance that fiancés turned newlyweds use it as a tool to assert their new identity by publishing it on social networks even before the day of the official ceremonies. …”
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Balance correlations, agentic zeros, and networks: The structure of 192 years of war and peace. by David Dekker, David Krackhardt, Patrick Doreian, Pavel N Krivitsky

“…Social network extensions of Heider's balance theory have led to a plethora of adaptations, often inconsistent with Heider and each other. …”
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A Conceptual Approach to Complex Model Management with Generalized Modelling Patterns and Evolutionary Identification by Sergey V. Kovalchuk, Oleg G. Metsker, Anastasia A. Funkner, Ilia O. Kisliakovskii, Nikolay O. Nikitin, Anna V. Kalyuzhnaya, Danila A. Vaganov, Klavdiya O. Bochenina

“…Examples of different areas (healthcare, hydrometeorology, and social network analysis) were elaborated with the proposed approach and solutions.…”
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Gendered associations of situational and dispositional factors with exclusion from social relations and loneliness in older age by Georgios Pavlidis, Georgios Pavlidis

“…Relevant deficiencies in the social network of older persons may be gendered and associated with personality and socioeconomic barriers, with direct implications for older persons’ welfare. …”
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A Simple Visualization Method for Three-Dimensional (3D) Network by Sangkwon Kim, Chaeyoung Lee, Jintae Park, Sungha Yoon, Yongho Choi, Junseok Kim

“…It is used to describe and interpret datasets in various fields such as social network, biological network, and metabolic regulation network. …”
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DIGITAL REPUTATION OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER BODIES: DISCURSIVE FACTORS AND COMMUNICATIVE TECHNIQUES OF MANAGEMENT by Elena A. Bazhenova, Mariya A. Shirinkina

“…More than 2.5 thousand posts by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation published in the VKontakte social network and Telegram messenger were selected as the material for the research. …”
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Description of network meta-analysis geometry: A metrics design study. by Fernanda S Tonin, Helena H Borba, Antonio M Mendes, Astrid Wiens, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Roberto Pontarolo

“…We aimed to propose metrics adapted from graph theory and social network-analysis literature to numerically describe NMA geometry.…”
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Complex adaptive systems science in the era of global sustainability crisis by Li An, B.L. Turner, II, Jianguo Liu, Volker Grimm, Qi Zhang, Zhangyang Wang, Ruihong Huang

“…., institutions, policies, social network) in the corresponding social-environmental systems (SES). …”
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