A Dynamic Users’ Interest Discovery Model with Distributed Inference Algorithm by Shuo Xu, Qingwei Shi, Xiaodong Qiao, Lijun Zhu, Han Zhang, Hanmin Jung, Seungwoo Lee, Sung-Pil Choi

“…One of the key issues for providing users user-customized or context-aware services is to automatically detect latent topics, users’ interests, and their changing patterns from large-scale social network information. Most of the current methods are devoted either to discovering static latent topics and users’ interests or to analyzing topic evolution only from intrafeatures of documents, namely, text content, without considering directly extrafeatures of documents such as authors. …”
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A Rumor Spreading Model considering the Cumulative Effects of Memory by Yi Zhang, Jiuping Xu

“…This paper proposes a rumor spreading model which examines how the memory effects rate changes over time in artificial network and a real social network. This model emphasizes a special rumor spreading characteristic called “the cumulative effects of memory.” …”
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What can location-based social media reveal on human migration patterns in Europe? by Irma Kveladze, Johanna Carolina Jokinen, Carlos Tapia, Henning Sten Hansen

“…Besides, most Origin-Destination maps fail to illustrate the temporal dimension of social network phenomena within the geographical environment. …”
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Theater of Triumph and Transgression: ­Religious Discourse on Hospitality/­Hostility in the Viral Communication during the Pandemic by Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras, Hendrikus Paulus Kaunang, Jekonia Tarigan, David Akbar Hasyemi Rafsanjani

“…The research employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Social Media Analysis to explore and visualize viral communication on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. …”
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The Evolution and Determinants of Interorganizational Coinvention Networks in New Energy Vehicles: Evidence from Shenzhen, China by Jia Liu, Zhaohui Chong, Shijian Lu

“…In this context, this paper uses the joint invention patent of Shenzhen, a low-carbon pilot city of China, to investigate the dynamics of network influencing factors. The social network analysis shows that the scale of coinvention network of NEVs is constantly increasing, which is featured with diversified cooperative entities, and collaboration depth (i.e., the intensity of the interactions with these partners) is also expanding. …”
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Mapping Global Research on Early Childhood Special Education: A Bibliometric Analysis by Gamze İnci

“…This study uses bibliometric and social network analysis methods to analyze early childhood special education research published in international journals. …”
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I turbolenti anni Venti. Riflessioni sul ruolo delle biblioteche nell’attuale ecosistema informativo e su ciò che (auspicabilmente) verrà by Federico Meschini

“…In questo articolo si propone una risposta alla domanda sulla necessità delle biblioteche nell’attuale ecosistema informativo, caratterizzato da un accesso all'informazione apparentemente sconfinato e individuale, e dominato dalla frammentazione e dalla polarizzazione, fenomeni in cui i social network hanno un ruolo di amplificazione. Si sostiene, perciò, come le biblioteche, in quanto istituzioni di mediazione e strutturazione della conoscenza, siano più che mai necessarie, seppur in forme parzialmente diverse rispetto a quelle tradizionali. …”
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Should It Always Be Central? Substitution Effects of Multi-Network Embeddedness on Absorptive Capacity by Xiurui Xu, Shanwu Tian

“…However, how organizations can strategically allocate positions across different networks to enhance absorptive capacity remains unclear. Drawing on social network theory and the knowledge-based view, this study proposes that the relational embeddedness of organizations across networks produces an interactive substitution effect on absorptive capacity. …”
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Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat by Kubiak-Schneider Aleksandra, Mazurek Sebastien

“…NodeGoat, an open-source online software, helps in creating maps and social network charts as well as visualizing the data on a time axis. …”
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Autonomia e controllo dei minori on line. I nuovi confini della responsabilità genitoriale by Benedetta Agostinelli

“…A 14 anni, poi, il consenso al trattamento dei dati personali nei servizi della società dell’informazione (quindi anche social network) viene prestato direttamente dal minore e i sistemi di parental control, se attivati, vengono interrotti bruscamente e non possono essere mantenuti dai genitori senza la volontà del minore. …”
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Performing Not-Not-Me in SoMe: A New Theatrical Typology of Self-Presentation Online by Anne-Britt Gran

“…Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical model in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) is frequently used to analyze online self-presentations in social media (SoMe) and other social network sites (SNS). The term “self-presentation” seems to be here to stay. …”
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Explainable AI-based suicidal and non-suicidal ideations detection from social media text with enhanced ensemble technique by Daniyal Alghazzawi, Hayat Ullah, Naila Tabassum, Sahar K. Badri, Muhammad Zubair Asghar

“…The prompt identification of sentiments on social networking platforms is crucial for timely intervention serving as a key tactic in suicide prevention efforts. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of food security and urbanization: insights and implications by Yujun Wei, Yujun Wei, Xiaokun Wei, Zhonghua Ye, Jie Fan

“…Using statistical analysis, co-word analysis, and social network analysis, we map the intellectual landscape and global collaboration networks in FSU research. …”
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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…Therising popularity and scale of social networking sites such asTwitter may play an important role in detecting, affecting, andpredicting influenza epidemics. …”
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Network wars, polylog and script convention in socially destructive online groups by Ekaterina V. Bakshutova

“…Based on the hypothesis that constructive conventionalization of the discussion can be achieved with 30 % of the conventional writing positions, we conducted an experiment in the Russian-speaking sector of the social networking site Facebook. In the article, the example of three discussions started on May 18, 2019 (dedicated to the opposition of citizens in Yekaterinburg due to the construction of the temple and the death of the journalist S. …”
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Spread and Control of Mobile Benign Worm Based on Two-Stage Repairing Mechanism by Meng Wang, Zhide Chen, Li Xu, Huan Zhan

“…Both in traditional social network and in mobile network environment, the worm is a serious threat, and this threat is growing all the time. …”
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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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Economic groups, corporate networks and think tanks. The case of the Centro de Estudios Públicos in Chile by Juan Jesús Morales-Martín, Martín Alfonso Videla-Rocha, Roberto Ibacache-Monasterio

“…Regarding the methodology, social network analysis has been used to identify how corporate networks are organized when companies share directors and advisors (interlocking directorates). …”
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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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