Against the backdrop of accelerating restructuring in the global economy and trade landscape, understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of timber trade networks has become increasingly crucial. Utilizing cross-national timber trade data from 2000 to...
12 February 2023
The globalization of trade has caused tremendous pressure on water resources globally, and a virtual water trade provides a new perspective on global freshwater sharing and water sustainability. No study has yet explored the structural characteristic...
Clarifying the dynamic evolution characteristics and driving mechanism of the global log trade network (GLTN) can provide references for the trade decision-making of various countries. Based on the stochastic actor-oriented model, this paper analyzed...
12 January 2023
In 2022, a new outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic created considerable challenges for the Shanghai public health system. However, conventional prevention and control strategies, which only rely on formal organizations, inefficiently decrease the numbe...
Both interests and peer relations are crucial for adolescents in finding out who they are and want to be as a person. Yet, our knowledge of the co-evolution of friendships and interests is limited to studies focusing on single interest domains and/or...
In some mountainous areas of Japan, the Ki-no-Eki system, in which wood is collected to thin the forest and is exchanged for community currency, has been specifically designed and implemented as a solution to current and emerging forest governance is...
10 June 2020
Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a variety of public health strategies have been implemented by governments worldwide. However, the fact that strict government mandates focus on physical distancing does not mean that social connectedness for volu...
This study utilizes the joint bond joint underwriting data of China’s securities firms from 2011 to 2020 to systematically explore the evolutionary characteristics of China’s collaborative bond joint underwriting networks from temporal, t...
Mapping the structural characteristics of attack behavior, this study explores how violent conflict evolved with the implementation of civil gang injunctions (CGIs). Networks were generated by linking defendants and victims named in 963 prosecutions...
With the growing accessibility of tools such as online surveys and web scraping, longitudinal social network data are more commonly collected in social science research along with non-network survey data. Such data play a critical role in helping soc...
The sustainable evolution of cooperative innovation networks is determined to a great extent by the effectiveness of their governance mechanisms. In this study, we draw from social network and stakeholder theories to emphasize two types of mechanisms...
The nature of interdependence between states encourages them to establish cooperation in different fields, leading to multiple relations. The policy alignments of states on trade and political relations can be regarded as the most critical agenda in...
Depression in adolescents has been linked to poor life outcomes, including suicidal ideation, peer victimization, and fewer friendships. Less is known about how depressed adolescents perceive their peer interactions. Based on the depression-distortio...
24 October 2021
Background: Previous studies have found that adolescents’ depressive symptoms are influenced by social networks in a stressful context, especially focusing on the processes of social selection and social influence. The current study aimed to explore...
Against the backdrop of China’s commitment to achieving carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, inter-provincial carbon emissions form a complex interconnected spatial network—clarifying its operational mechanisms is crucial...
Prefabricated construction (PC) is considered to be a low-carbon construction method. Implementing prefabricated construction projects (PCPs) requires multiple industry organizations to participate and collaborate. As different PCPs are initiated and...
Humanitarian supply chains often face sudden demand surges, disrupted transportation, limited inventory visibility, and fragmented coordination under disaster uncertainty. Digital twins can improve real-time visibility and adaptive resource allocatio...
Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) remains a critical challenge for urban mobility. In this direction, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely investigated for ATSC, showing promising improvements in simulated environments. However, a n...