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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Network community"”.
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Essays on Organizational Network Communities and Firm Innovation Performance
… and an overview of the organizational networks and innovation literature. The chapter introduces the core issues and theoretical debates at the intersection of organizational networks and innovation. It argues that in today’s ever changing and knowledge intensive business landscape, …
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Efficient algorithms for analyzing large scale network dynamics: Centrality, community and predictability
<p>"Large scale networks are an indispensable part of our daily life; be it biological network, smart grids, academic collaboration networks, social networks, vehicular networks, or the networks as part of various smart environments, they are fast becoming ubiquitous. The successful realization of …
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Dark networks: a South African cash-in-transit crime case study
… the structure of cash-in-transit criminal networks in South Africa. Whilst the current literature on cash-in-transit robberies is sparse, academic research on the criminal networks involved in these crimes is non-existent, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining reliable data on …
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Structural Properties of Genotype-Phenotype Maps: Models, Estimates and Evolution
… connected through one-point mutations and form networks. These networks can be fully connected or fragmented into disjoint components, which are commonly referred to as neutral components (NCs). NCs are the most essential neutral units for populations evolving on the space of genotypes. The …
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Primary Lifelines: Friendship Groups of Women in Higher Education
… of friendship groups at the personal, network, community, and societal levels; (2) the processes which demonstrate trust at cognitive, affective, and behavioral levels of group interaction; and (3) the major role that friendship groups play in providing psychological support, …
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Connectivity biomarkers in neurodegenerative tauopathies
… and how the anatomical and neurochemical networks that underlie clinical features might be altered by disease. I investigate simple clinical biomarkers, showing that a two-minute test of verbal fluency is a potential diagnostic biomarker to distinguish between PD and PSP and that the ACE-R …
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HIGH PERFORMANCE DECENTRALISED COMMUNITY DETECTION ALGORITHMS FOR BIG DATA FROM SMART COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS
… world can be represented as models of complex networks and subsequently be analysed fruitfully. One fundamental property of the real-world networks is that they usually exhibit inhomogeneity in which the network tends to organise according to an underlying modular structure, commonly referred …
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Structured Mining and Analysis of Public Energy Data to Evaluate, Improve and Assist the Execution of the UK’s Built Environment Energy Efficiency Policies
… The geographical units created by complex network community detection, also called high-growth business community areas in our study, are shown to have their non-domestic buildings improved to a better average with a lower starting position compared to other areas. Further clustered …
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Statistical Analysis of Structured High-dimensional Data
… as multi-modal neuroimaging data and large-scale networks carry excessive amount of information, and can be used to test various scientific hypotheses or discover important patterns in complicated systems. While considerable efforts have been made to analyze high-dimensional data, existing …
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Global gamers, transnational play, imaginary battlefield: encountering the gameplay experience in the war-themed first-person-shooter, Call of Duty
… 2010. At the time of writing this thesis, this network community had already attracted more than 10 million fans worldwide. Besides the well-known Call of Duty series, other FPS titles like Medal of Honor, Fallout, and Battlefield series are all fed into the global gamers’ growing appetite for …
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Towards Real-time Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks are poised to change the way computer systems interact with the physical world. We plan on entrusting sensor systems to collect medical data from patients, monitor the safety of our infrastructure, and control manufacturing processes in our factories. To date, the focus of …
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Statistical inference on network data
Networks arise from modeling complex systems in various fields, such as computer science, social science, biology, psychology and finance. Understanding and analyzing networks help us better understand these complex systems and extract useful information. In this dissertation, we study problems on …
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Influence of Personal and State Level Variables on Perception of State Emergency Management Network Resilience In 47 States
… agencies is the state emergency management network. Many entities in a state emergency management network have different responsibilities during disaster states vs. non-disaster states. Regardless of their role and function, entities need to be able to exchange resources and information with …
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Expanding the Network Evaluation Toolkit: Combining Social Network Analysis & Qualitative Comparative Analysis
<p>Collective action networks are complex systems of interrelated individuals or groups that come together for a common social change purpose (Ernstson, 2011). Researchers have used social network analysis (SNA) to examine the relationship structures and characteristics of collective action …
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The broader social network of community planning: a diagnostic tool for communities to assess their planning capacity
… examined the relationship between social networks of a community and its planning capacity. Nine common patterns (traits) of effective planning efforts were identified and aligned with social network methods. This provided the framework from which to develop a tool determining the ability …