Previous studies regarding social interactions commonly adopt research methods that investigate causal relationships between variables. The existing approaches often utilize variables derived from general contexts, aiming to apply them universally ac...
Membership associations are vital to build social capital and networks among their members through the exchange of information and resources, roles especially valuable for emerging entrepreneurs. That is the case of associations catering to professio...
This study explores the potential of social media in improving education, engagement, and mobilization for climate change initiatives. Using the theoretical framework of resource mobilization and methods such as social network analysis (SNA) and bipa...
The administrative turn to urban regeneration in South Korea prompts an examination into the social aspects of sustainability for project areas. This retrospective study used social network analysis (SNA) to compass the 2015–2018 formation of J...
28 June 2022
Social prescribing can promote the creation of new relationships, which may then promote the building of social capital in communities. One example of a social prescribing tool in Japan is Osekkai conferences, which increase social participation and...
Social media platforms allow people to share information, connect, and build networks at an unprecedented scale with positive and negative consequences. Social network analysis (SNA) applies mathematical network and graph theory to visualise informat...
28 March 2022
Objectives: Population aging is a reality in most developed countries. In this era, an important health issue for these countries is promoting health and quality of life in the elderly population. Older adults’ social networks are associated wi...
The approach presented here introduces the use of directed and weighted graph indicators in order to incorporate the intensity of bilateral contacts. The indicators are tested on a reference email network, and their applicability in explaining the ro...
Despite the advances in computational literary analysis of Western literature, in-depth analysis of the South Asian literature has been lacking. Thus, social network analysis of the main characters in the Indian epic Mahabharata was performed, in whi...
Social network analysis has been widely used in various fields including online health communities. However, it is still a challenge to understand how patients’ individual characteristics and online behaviors impact the formation of online heal...
Social interactions are a very important component in people’s lives. Social network analysis has become a common technique used to model and quantify the properties of social interactions. In this paper, we propose an integrated framework to explore...
4 November 2021
Improving nursing students’ subjective happiness is germane for efficiency in the nursing profession. This study examined the subjective happiness of nursing students by applying social network analysis (SNA) and developing a strategy to improve the...
Tourism has been recognized as an important economic sector, requiring a high degree of involvement from the entrepreneurial sector to diversify tourism products and services to meet increasing demand. Tourism is often considered a tool for economic...
26 September 2018
The Social Network Analysis offers a view of social phenomena based on interactions. The aim of this study is to compare social reality through the cohesion variable and analyse its relationship with the resilience of university students. This inform...
The objective of this study was to investigate the association between social structure and incidence of tail-biting in pigs. Pigs (n = 144, initial weight = 7.2 ± 1.57 kg, 4 weeks of age) were grouped based on their litter origin: littermates, non-l...
(1) Background: The pyramid scheme has caused a large-scale plunder of finances due to the unsustainability of its operating model, which seriously jeopardizes economic development and seriously affects social stability. In various types of networks,...
In China, large hydraulic engineering projects have made a great contribution to social economic development; at the same time, they also lead to social risks that affect social stability. The pluralism of stakeholders in large hydraulic engineering...
25 October 2019
The uncertainty and complexity of natural hazards put forward new requirements for emergency management systems. In order to deal with natural hazards effectively, it is important to build a cooperative network between government organizations and so...
As network structure of virtual communities related to suicide and school shooting still remains unaddressed in scientific literature, we employed basic demographics analysis and social network analysis (SNA) to show common features, as well as disti...
19 September 2019
Social farming represents a hybrid governance model in which public bodies, local communities, and economic actors act together to promote health and social inclusion in rural areas. Although relational variables are crucial to foster social farm per...
12 October 2022
This study aimed to explore the effects of different types of social participation on the components of well-being, as well as the differences according to sex in the relationship between social participation and well-being. This was a cross-sectiona...
Social issues refer to topics that occur and become increasingly focused in various areas of society. Because of the evolutionary pattern of issues, detecting social issues requires monitoring various stories formed by members of society over time. V...
This study used social network analysis to examine the structure of the international trade of creative goods. The results showed that the US, Canada, Europe, and certain Asian countries (e.g., China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Thailand) ranke...
This study examines the impact of cooperative development levels and collaboration models on social network relations in İzmir, Türkiye. The research aims to uncover how the developmental stages of cooperatives affect their relational posit...
Formation of a hierarchy within an organization is a natural way of assigning the duties, delegating responsibilities and optimizing the flow of information. Only for the smallest companies the lack of the hierarchy, that is, a flat one, is possible....
31 December 2018
Social support is an important predictor of the health of a population. Few studies have analyzed the influence of caregivers’ personal networks from a gender perspective. The aim of this study was to analyze the composition, structure, and fun...
Social networking has become a crucial factor affecting regional economic activities. Employing the panel data of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta in China, we examine the influence of environmental regulation on industrial structure...
This study examines the dynamics of information dissemination and opinion formation in Indonesian social media through a comprehensive analysis of a high-profile youth violence case. Using social network analysis (SNA), we analyzed 264,155 activities...
15 November 2022
Social media data reveal patterns of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of users on a range of topics. This study analysed 4398 tweets gathered between 17 January 2022 and 3 February 2022 related to ecosystem services, using the keyword and hashtag...
The exponential growth in information on the Internet, particularly within social networks, highlights the importance of sentiment and opinion analysis. The intrinsic characteristics of the Spanish language coupled with the short length and lack of c...
This paper explores the emerging potential of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI for social network analysis (SNA) based on open-ended survey data as a source. We introduce a novel methodology, Survey-to-Multilayer Network (SURVEY2MLN), w...
21 August 2018
In adolescence, friends are important due to their influence on the acquisition of habits such as alcohol consumption. However, there is a lack of studies that describe the structural context of adolescents, which would be useful to implement prevent...
11 December 2024
In this cross-sectional study, the interactions between demographic characteristics and the body, mind, and social dimensions among participants of a holistic training program for social and personal development were examined and compared to a contro...
Over recent years, food safety has garnered widespread attention and concern from society. Concurrently, social media sites and online forums have become popular platforms to disseminate news, share opinions, and connect with one’s social netwo...
31 October 2018
Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a set of techniques developed in the field of social and behavioral sciences research, in order to characterize and study the social relationships that are established among a set of individuals. When building a socia...
A key challenge in project management is to understand to which extent the dynamic interactions between the different project people—through formal and informal networks of collaboration that temporarily emerge across a project´s lifecycl...
In the area of network analysis, centrality metrics play an important role in defining the “most important” actors in a social network. However, nowadays, most types of networks are dynamic, meaning their topology changes over time. The connection we...
In recent years, the huge growth in the number and variety of blockchains has prompted researchers to investigate the cross-blockchain scenario. In this setting, multiple blockchains coexist, and wallets can exchange data and money from one blockchai...
Social network analysis (SNA), or the application of network analysis techniques to social media data, is an increasingly prominent approach used in computational public health research. We conducted a systematic review to investigate trends around S...
Although tourism has gradually become a popular form of leisure and entertainment in China, the quality of China’s tourism development remains unclear. Through the panel data of 30 provinces in China, an SBM-DEA model and a social network analy...
The number of metal-organic frameworks (MOF) as well as the number of applications of this material are growing rapidly. With the number of characterized compounds exceeding 100,000, manual sorting becomes impossible. At the same time, the increasing...
The topic of sustainability has mostly been tied to economic development and environmental protection, yet not much attention has been paid to the need for high problem-solving capacity as this underlines both issues. One of the most straightforward...
The study of dramatic plays has long relied on qualitative methods to analyze character interactions, making little assumption about the structural patterns of communication involved. Our approach bridges NLP and literary studies, enabling scalable,...
Collaboration in tourism is widely perceived as a solution for achieving success and for ensuring sustainability in tourist destinations. However, collaboration is a complex and dynamic process, and although there is a growing interest in understandi...
Social media has had a strong presence in many people’s lives over the last decade. In addition, social media platforms have allowed people to share opinions, provide advice on numerous factors, including where to visit, as well as to stay connected...
This study utilizes the danmaku on the Bilibili platform as the research subject to examine how their characteristics vary according to the nature or focus of English teaching videos. By employing social network analysis, the study reveals distinctiv...
This paper discusses the issues of industrial cluster analysis. Initially, the authors explore theoretical approaches to understanding the clusters phenomenon and their identification and analysis. Looking at industrial clusters as network structures...
Social media provides a vital arena for rare disease (RD) communities, fostering support, advocacy, and knowledge sharing. Rare Disease Day generates a large-scale online conversation, yet previous research has relied mainly on static, cross-sectiona...
Patent keyword analysis involves extracting and examining keywords from patent documents. Since patents contain detailed information about technologies, analyzing them can provide valuable insights for efficient technology management. This paper prop...
In response to the phenomenon of global warming, the transportation sector aims to mitigate carbon emissions by promoting the use of public transportation. This study employs social network analysis to propose effective improvements to the public tra...
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