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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Rumor"”.
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Limit Cycles and Dynamics of Rumor Models
… thesis discusses limit cycles and behavior of rumor models. The first part presents the deterministic Daley-Kendall model (DK) with arrivals and departures and comparison of the Susceptibles, Infectives and Removed (SIR) model and the DK model. The second result is a part of the qualitative …
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Rumor, gender, and authority in English Renaissance drama
… masculine authority and identity. However, rumor's inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy poses the greatest threat to discerning listening. The paradox that emerges is that while the drama posits men as superior authors of information, it is men---and not women---who are responsible for the …
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
This project examines the personification of Fama in the authors Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius.These Latin authors were deeply influenced by Virgil’s famous personification of Fama in Aeneid 4, and their indebtedness to Virgil is expressed variously through their references to Fama in their own …
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Rumor source identification, contagion processes, and dynamics of social network formation and evolution
… about such flows. We examine the problem of rumor source identification in line graphs. As the size of the infected region grows arbitrarily large, we show that unlike the single source case, where the likelihood function concentrates near the midpoint of the infected region, the support of …
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Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumor, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire
… the relationships that weave together disaster, rumors, massacre, and narrative-making in an empire, this project explores rumors, trial discourses, and commemoration as sites of analysis to create a window on the contested construction of multiethnic modern Japan. By analyzing a wide range of …
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"Using Communication Strategies to Design Food Marketing Strategies: The ""Pork Fat"" Rumor in Indonesia"
… can be expected to be effective in all kinds of rumor situations in all industries (even within the food industry) in all places. The effectiveness of rumor quelling strategy appears to be related to, in addition to the variables under investigation, perceived importance of the rumor topic by …
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Information extraction with network centralities : finding rumor sources, measuring influence, and learning community structure
… problems using network centrality: finding rumor sources, measuring influence, and learning community structure. We develop a new network centrality called rumor centrality to find rumor sources in networks. We give a linear time algorithm for calculating rumor centrality, demonstrating its …
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Making Meaning Together: Information, Rumor, and Propaganda in British Literature of the First World War
… life. This project also highlights the role that rumor plays in modernity. The war years bring an expansion of government-directed information control, both in the form of actively produced propaganda and in the form of censorship, disrupting the conduits along which information travels under …
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Countering Anti-Vaccination Rumors on Twitter
<p>This study examined the effects of the counter-rumor on changes in the belief about the anti-vaccination claim, anxiety associated with the rumor, intentions to vaccinate a child and share the rumor. Particularly, we tested whether argument strength, source expertise, as well as the recipient’s …
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"Longing in vain to climb into the ducal bed": gossip and rumor in Orderic Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History
… the talk studies field that analyzes gossip and rumor, Chapter 2 discussed Orderic Vitalis' background, the historical approach of his sources and his own historical approach, Chapter 3 applied theoretical work on talk to the EH, Chapter 4 analyzed the performance of information management, and …
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INTERMEDIA AGENDA-SETTING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLITICAL BLOGS AND LEGACY NEWS MEDIA: A STUDY OF THE `OBAMA-IS-A-MUSLIM' RUMOR
… of incidents such as the "Obama-is-a-Muslim" rumor during the 2008 presidential election suggest that influential political blogs are playing a major role in setting the agenda of the legacy media. The power of the political blogosphere is forcing media practitioners, communication scholars …
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Detecting and Mitigating Rumors in Social Media
… opportunities for nefarious elements to spread rumors or misinformation. A rumor generally refers to an interesting piece of information that is widely disseminated through a social network and whose credibility cannot be easily substantiated. A rumor can later turn out to be true or false or …
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"Não possui fama nem rumor em contrário": limpeza de sangue e familiares do Santo Ofício (Bahia - 1681-1750)
Apesar de nunca ter sido instalado efetivamente na América Portuguesa, o Santo Ofício português atuou nesta região através de diversos mecanismos, como a utilização de agentes denominados Familiares. Para tornarem-se Familiares os candidatos deviam passar por investigações sobre sua limpeza de …
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The Red Thread Web: a case study of the uses and gratifications parents adopting a child from China discovered in the Rumor Queen blog
… website--more commonly known as the Rumor Queen. This dissertation utilizes case study research strategy and employs several qualitative research methods to investigate the broad topics and themes explored in the Rumor Queen website and to specifically examine the "uses and …
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Random combinatorial processes
… of random sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$; and rumor spreading algorithms on the $d$-regular tree.
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Knowledge Representation, Communication, and Update In Probability-Based Multiagent Systems
… in prob- abilistic systems is the so called rumor problem, where cycles in message passing cause redundant influence of beliefs. We develop algorithms to identify and solve the rumor problem in the context of our multiagent system. We compare and contrast our system with the MSBN multiagent …
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Investment decisions: Influence of an Internet stock message board.
… The question is addressed using psychology rumor literature and attitude theories. Message board postings are a type of rumor, since not all the information is verified and is usually intended to persuade a belief or influence a decision. Further, the messages may influence an investor by …
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"Sparks From Law's Anvil": The Evolution Controversies in New Mexico, 1925-2008
… unique, 1927 evolution controversy sparked by a rumor of legislation to mandate the teaching of evolution. From there, I describe New Mexico's high-profile role in the ongoing modern debate. By placing New Mexico within the context of the national debate, this thesis explores the ways in which …
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