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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"social communities"”.
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Popular event analysis in social communities
… techniques has led to the boom of various online communities. Good examples are social communities such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn, which successfully facilitate the information creation, sharing, diffusion, and evolution among web users. As a result, a popular topic or event can …
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Measuring and Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Power Systems, Emergency Services, and Social Communities
… human deaths worldwide. To mitigate losses, communities' readiness, flexibility, and resilience must be strengthened. To this end, appropriate techniques for forecasting a community's capacity and functionality in the face of impending crises must be developed and suitable community …
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Gossip, performance, and regulation: an examination of social communities in Tom Wolfe‘s I Am Charlotte Simmons
… qualities, but also the mentality of the social spheres they strive to be a part of. Namely, the reader is able to see how each character intentionally conforms to stereotypes in order to stay a part of his respective social domains. To do this, however, they often have to socially present …
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The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany
… important for the cultural construction of social communities and the dramatic display of power relationships, yet for the most part they have ignored domestic festivity, including Christmas, Germany's most popular holiday. This is the first full-length study that applies methodologies from …
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The use and perception of social network sites in telecommuting work environments
… available web applications and tools including social network sites, which provided the potential to address many of the challenges that have plagued telecommuting since its inception. These included questions surrounding communication, productivity, isolation and trust. Social network sites …
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Experiencing Citizenship in a Globalizing World: The Impact of Off-Campus Programs
… to begin to re-imagine the boundaries of their social communities and their responsibilities as global citizens, or whether these processes can occur through more locally or nationally-oriented service learning, volunteer, or internship experiences.</p> <p>This project combines several strands …
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Exploring Visitors Experiences of Online Cancer Communities
… who commonly report feeling isolated and lacking social support. Approximately 45 million adults in the UK use the internet, and online communities might be a culturally relevant way to connect people affected by cancer, allowing them to support one another. However, internet communication is …
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Energy resilience on a local level : inclusive planning for disaster
… between energy delivery systems and the range of social, medical, and fiscal systems they currently support. In the past decade, the fragility of aging electric power grids with inadequate redundant generation, transmission, or distribution capacity, has been clearly revealed by the power losses …
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Reading the personal: Toward a theory and practice of self -narrative in student writing
… and negotiate codes of belonging within multiple social communities. Chapter 1, "Situating Personal Writing," considers how the key terms of self narrative---self, experience, and voice---have become problematic in light of postmodern theories of the subject. Chapter 2, "Identity in …
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Tejiendo una red de resiliencia = weaving a web of resilience : Internal displacement, social networks and urban integration in Cartagena, Colombia
… ongoing violence, the disruption of spatial and social communities, and the dissolution of trust between individuals, organizations and the Colombian state, how do IDPs reconstitute social networks as part of integration into host cities? How are those social networks challenged and/or bolstered …
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Success Against the Odds: The Experience of At-Risk Students Who Graduate Fom Postseconday Institutions
… and earning sufficient grades; the management of social issues of home and campus life, and the strategies they employed that yielded success. This research used a case study and grounded theory methodology to analyze the interviews of four students. A comparative iterative analysis of the data …
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Social and environmental causes and reproductive consequences of ornamented plumage in the Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus)
… for how signal honesty is maintained, the social cost hypothesis and the physiological cost hypothesis, using the Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus). Male Red-backed Fairywrens typically exhibit ornamented red-black breeding plumage, but this species offers unique opportunities …
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Integrating Data Mining and Social Network Techniques into the Development of a Web-based Adaptive Play-based Assessment tool for School Readiness.
… with features that consider machine learning and social network aspects. A modified genetic algorithm was integrated into a web-based stealth assessment tool for school readiness. The research goal is to create a web-based stealth assessment tool that can learn the user's skills and adjust the …
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Probing topographical influences on biofilm formation using dynamic-mask multiphoton lithography
… Biofilms have persisted for billions of years as social communities of cells aggregated and attached on surfaces, and today they are both necessary and harmful within the human body and our surrounding environment. They show extremely high antibiotic resistance relative to planktonic cells and are …
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Kecerdasan spiritual anak punk di Kabupaten Malang
… from different countries. It creates many social communities in the society. There is a community with their special performing and their anarchy behavior that called by punk community. They feel comfort with their life style. Because of their attitudes, the societies opine that punkers are …
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Integrating Data Mining and Social Network Techniques into the Development of a Web-based Adaptive Play-based Assessment tool for School Readiness.
… with features that consider machine learning and social network aspects. A modified genetic algorithm was integrated into a web-based stealth assessment tool for school readiness. The research goal is to create a web-based stealth assessment tool that can learn the user's skills and adjust the …
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The difference walls make' : cultural dynamics and implications of change in Sāmoan architectural traditions and socio-spatial practices (1940-2006)
… rich cultural traditions, aesthetics, and social practices that are used to manifest, embed, and ‘advance’ social and cultural identities within social communities and physical landscapes. The ethnography describes how traditional open, round or oval house forms reflect and shape Sāmoan …
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Regnbågsungar: Familj, utbildning, fritid
… specifically, the aim is to explore if and how social conflict arises on the basis on their queer kinship structure. 28 interviews were conducted with informants that share the experience of growing up in Sweden with one or more homosexual, bisexual or transgender parents. Their age varied from …
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A study of the historical and linguistic factors that shaped Modern Spanish
… is concerned with how exposure to other language communities, including those speaking substrate languages of former times, as well as other social contexts including ruling social communities has influenced the changes which emerged in the shape of present-day Spanish. However, the findings in …
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