Theoretical framework and methods for the analysis of the adoption-diffusion of innovations in agriculture: a bibliometric review by Rafael Mesa Manzano, Javier Esparcia Pérez

“…In recent years, social scientists have studied the diffusion and adoption of agricultural innovations from different approaches, such as innovation diffusion theory, behavioral models, econometric models, social capital and social network analysis, among others. In this study we analyze the scientific literature through a bibliometric analysis based on co-citation networks, to explore the theoretical pillars and bibliographic coupling, with which we explore the current methodological research trends of the last 50 years. …”
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Trade associations, bureaucracies, and productive credit in Colombia, 1958-1974 by Fernando Chisnes-Espitia

“…The argument is that State autonomy depends on two main factors: the level o dependency of high bureaucracies regarding economic elites on one side, and the relational process of the Sate with the social groups involved in the specific policy. Using a Social Network analysis related to the high bureaucracies of the Central Bank of Colombia and the study of interactions between produces associations (as organized agent of the economic elites) with the State it studies the mechanism in which the relation State and economic elites impact the specific policy of development credit.…”
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Sign Inference for Dynamic Signed Networks via Dictionary Learning by Yi Cen, Rentao Gu, Yuefeng Ji

“…Mobile online social network (mOSN) is a burgeoning research area. However, most existing works referring to mOSNs deal with static network structures and simply encode whether relationships among entities exist or not. …”
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Animals as Online Resources for Human Storytelling. Between Exploitation and Anthrozoological Empowerment by Iris Bauer

“…Based on Spivak’s concept of subalternity, online-animals are discussed as subaltern representations, that are instrumentalised in human story telling: as an economic resource, as a projection surface for individual life writing and identity creation and as a means of social networking. Yet social media are also discussed as a space in which anthrozoological empowerment can take place. …”
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A Survey on Energy Harvesting and Integrated Data Sharing in Wireless Body Area Networks by Xiaoling Xu, Lei Shu, Mohsen Guizani, Mei Liu, Junye Lu

“…In this attempt, we focus mostly on energy acquisition, data integration and data sharing, and collaboration of WBANs, from the viewpoint of energy harvesting development, the social network and smartphone application in WBANs, and the integration of WBANs and cloud system networks computing to analyze related issues of WBANs. …”
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Louis Vuitton’s Strategies for Enhancing Customers’ Engagement on Instagram and Weibo by Xincheng Wu

“…Four types of publics and three social-mediated publics are illustrated to facilitate the reader's understanding of social network analysis. Furthermore, the findings revealed different approaches adopted by Instagram and Weibo to cater to local traditions and cultures to make more profits and occupy a larger market share. …”
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Social Capital and Selectivity in Academic Co-Authorship Networks: the Case of Accounting Sciences in Brazil by João Estevão Barbosa Neto, Silvio Segundo Salej Higgins, Jacqueline Veneroso Alves da Cunha, Antônio Carlos Ribeiro

“…The present study tests structural autonomy, one of the two established hypotheses on social capital, from the point of view of social network analysis. The test is a pplied in a case study of the academic co - authorship networks of accounting science programs in Brazil during the period from 2002 - 2010. …”
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The Use of Big Data to Improve Human Health: How Experience From other Industries Will Shape the Future by Timothy E Hewett, Greg Olsen, Mark Atkinson

“…Practitioners of data science in human health-related domains typically see a world that differs substantially from practitioners in other domains such as advertising, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing, or social networking. This commentary discusses what those differences are (Project vs Product Focus, Independent vs Integrated Efforts, Causality vs Prediction Driven, Statistical vs Machine Learning Centricity) why they exist, and the future convergence that we believe is on the horizon. …”
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L'e-santé en France : déclinaisons et implications territoriales by Joy Raynaud

“…Telemedicine facilitates access to care but is not a measure for compensating the lack of doctors: territorial anchoring and knowledge of the health and medical-social network are essential. These issues reaffirm the importance of local health governance, which relies on the population and territorial responsibility of health professionals and their coordination ability to meet the health needs of their territory.…”
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Blockchain-based secure and fair crowdsourcing scheme by Junwei Zhang, Wenxuan Cui, Jianfeng Ma, Chao Yang

“…The crowdsourcing schemes which utilize the social network to solve complex tasks are an important part of open cooperation over the Internet. …”
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Gender and community development in Iran with emphasize in driving force the case study: Nemat Abad Tehran by Mohammad Eskandari Sani

“…According to the findings it is recommended that, the strategy for development of community-based planning can be very effective in urban planning system in Iran as this strategy for host communities could bring about social welfare, justice, and socio- economic suitability. Also Social Network, marriage, education level, employment are the most important elements that affect women's participation in the development of community-driven development programs.…”
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Exploring the use of mobile phone data for domestic tourism trip analysis by Maarten Vanhoof, Liane Hendrickx, Aare Puussaar, Gert Verstraeten, Thomas Ploetz, Zbigniew Smoreda

“…We show how temporal patterns of mobile phone use differ from baseline behaviour, how destinations of trips can algorithmically be derived, and how future research can integrate information on the activation of the social network. Our main contribution is that we describe current barriers and sketch direction for future research.…”
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Theorising unconventional climate advocates and their relationship to the environmental movement by R. M. Colvin, Robyn E. Gulliver, Xiongzhi Wang, Ajay Adhikari, Sarah J. Boddington, Kelly S. Fielding, Winnifred R. Louis

“…In this paper we theorise ‘unconventional climate advocates’ as those who combine advocacy for climate action with a social identity that departs from the prototypical environmentalist identity. Using social network analysis we show that unconventional climate advocates in Australia are peripheral to the main environmental movement, that is, the conventional advocates for climate action. …”
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Building a High-Performance Graph Storage on Top of Tree-Structured Key-Value Stores by Heng Lin, Zhiyong Wang, Shipeng Qi, Xiaowei Zhu, Chuntao Hong, Wenguang Chen, Yingwei Luo

“…Additionally, TuGraph demonstrates superior performance in the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) Social Network Benchmark (SNB) interactive benchmark.…”
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Mediating Effect of Organizational Learning Capacity on the Relationship between Relational Embeddedness and Innovation Performance in Freight Logistics Service by Pengxia Bai, Qunqi Wu, Qian Li, Chenlei Xue, Lei Zhang

“…Firstly, a theoretical model is constructed based on Social Network Theory, and four research hypotheses are presented. …”
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Quantifying Women’s Marginalisation in Ibero-American Film Culture During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Network-Science Proposal by Ainamar Clariana-Rodagut, Alessio Cardillo

“…The research presented here uses the tools of social network analysis to empirically show a socio-cultural phenomenon already addressed by the social sciences and history: the historical marginalisation of women in the field of cinema. …”
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An Improved Clustering Method for Detection System of Public Security Events Based on Genetic Algorithm and Semisupervised Learning by Heng Wang, Zhenzhen Zhao, Zhiwei Guo, Zhenfeng Wang, Guangyin Xu

“…The occurrence of series of events is always associated with the news report, social network, and Internet media. In this paper, a detecting system for public security events is designed, which carries out clustering operation to cluster relevant text data, in order to benefit relevant departments by evaluation and handling. …”
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The Cultural Science of Consumption: Brains, Networks, and Identities by Herrmann-Pillath Carsten

“…The paper proposes a general theory of consumer behaviour in ‘social network markets’ – where individual choices are determined by the choices of others – by conceptualising such markets as examples of distributed cognition; itself part of an ‘externalist’ perspective on human identity. …”
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Innovation Efficiency and the Spatial Correlation Network Characteristics of Intelligent-Manufacturing Enterprises by Ningning Fu

“…This research used the modified gravity model to determine the innovation efficiency and the spatial correlation of IM enterprises in China and used UCINET software to reveal the innovation efficiency and spatial network characteristics of IM enterprises through a social network analysis. The study found that the relationship was significant and frequently close between innovation efficiency and the spatial correlation network of IM enterprises. …”
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How to Analyze and Enhance Participation in Electronic Networks of Practice by Charkhsaz Fatemeh, Isaai Mohammad Taghi, Dayani Malihe

“…Clustering categorizes conversations into four types, each exhibiting participation patterns and attributes. Social network analysis further reveals the network’s structure and participants’ interrelations. …”
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