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Prospects of BRICS currency dominance in international trade

dominance of the BRICS currency in international trade, if only trade relations are taken into account, whereas political and other aspects are neglected. ... political and other aspects are neglected. Keywords: World trade network, International trade, Currency, Opinion formation model Introduction Starting from the Bretton Woods agreements in 1944, the US dollar

Political corruption and the congestion of controllability in social networks

By viewing political and social corruption through the lens of the control theory of complex systems, this paper will provide some insight into the effects of corruption and outside control on ... payment through political corruption opportunities, can be identified by changes in an indicator of the controllability of the network at points where the network undergoes a structural change. A

A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media

political and social activism events on Twitter and analyzed three action types: synchronicity by hashtag, URL and @mentions.The CSI provides an overall quantification of synchronization across all action ... voice in political and social issues. The construction of citizen voice in these discussions has been established as civic values (Dumitrica 2020) . However, the multiplicity of voices and opinions on

A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics

Political ideology is a major social phenomena that plays a crucial role in the formation and dynamics of ideologically-aligned social groups. This alignment gives rise to some of the most powerful

Investigating the effect of selective exposure, audience fragmentation, and echo-chambers on polarization in dynamic media ecosystems

-chambers—called the highchoice news avoidance thesis by Karlsen et al. (2020). Ultimately, this process is argued to lead to political polarization. There are three frequently cited versions of this story ... of the polarization of political opinion. Background Media ecosystem Media scholars describe the media ecosystem as interacting with media consumers in two ways: through top–down and bottom-up

Networks of international football: communities, evolution and globalization of the game

history. Our analysis suggests that the evolution of the game receives considerable impact not only from major sport events, but also from multiple social and political incidents. The game of football and ... political incidents. The game of football and its evolution reflect significant historical transitions and turning points, and can provide a novel perspective for the study of the worldwide globalization

E-Elections: Law in Asia & Online Political Activities

e-eLeCTionS: L & onLine PoLiTiCaL a a W in aSia CTivTieS Matthew J. Wilson * I. IoducIntrno The Internet has had a profound influence on our global society. Widespread and affordable access to the ... , politicians, and other political actors to closer scrutiny. Essentially, the Internet provides a platform for rumors, harmful untruths, criticism, and embarrassing truths. In fact, the dissemination of

Political Parties, Elections and Election Systems by Etem Aziri

differences between them. Classification of political parties according to the author, can be based on different criteria ranging from philosophy and political, to the political programs of up to parliamentary ... treatment of political parties as a global phenomenon. In 2004 published the book "Political parties and democracy", while two years "Sociology of political parties" - in modified version. This book differs

A Twitter network and discourse analysis of the Rana Plaza collapse

chronological analysis [ 53 ]. Recent studies using discourse analysis approaches have examined political, corporate, and activist communication on other events such as COVID-19 [ 19 ], a Spanish journalist ... well as the structural and contentual complexity of the discourse all reach their peaks. The active discussion of various social, political, and economical aspects of the collapse reflects the societal

Content-based comparison of communities in social networks: Ex-Yugoslavian reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

same macro-language, is highly heterogeneous due to deep-seated cultural differences. Nationality, ethnicity, religion, past conflicts, and political affiliations are some of the factors that contribute ... endorsement, most retweets indicate links between like-minded users. Specifically, retweeting political tweets has proven to be a highly effective reflection of actual political alignments and influence

Publius Was Not a PAC: Reconciling Anonymous Political Speech, the First Amendment, and Campaign Finance Disclosure

VOLUME 14 2014 NUMBER 1 PUBLIUS WAS NOT A PAC: RECONCILING ANONYMOUS POLITICAL SPEECH, THE FIRST AMENDMENT, AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCLOSURE Benjamin Barr * and Stephen R. Klein** Congress shall make

Attributed Stream Hypergraphs: temporal modeling of node-attributed high-order interactions

can integrate time-evolving node attributes, i.e., labels that (may) change in time. This peculiarity allows studying not only how individuals’ characteristics change (e.g., opinions, political leaning ... medical staff and patients in a hospital ward (Vanhems et al. 2013) ; We build a case study on online social network discussions about political topics (Morini et  al. 2021) to describe aspects related

Correction: Content-based comparison of communities in social networks: Ex-Yugoslavian reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

an error in the name of a political party. The incorrect name is: Srpska Narodna Stranka. The correct name is: Srpska Napredna Stranka. Following publication of the original article (Evkoski et  al

Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography by Daniel Tanguay

The book ends with concluding remarks of the writer about the whole Leo Strauss’s thought. Although Leo Strauss’s philosophy is very complex especially in terms of so many different titles and ... twentieth century political philosophy but also enable to us with critical outlook about modern political philosophy and its problems. Apart from Introduction, the book consists of four main titles about Leo

The risk of aggregating networks when diffusion is tie-specific

are friends are also coworkers as well as political discussion partners, then there is no issue. Measuring one is the same as measuring all and taking their union. The view that we would have of the ... overall network structure would be the same. However, as we show below, when we pick a single dimension of a relationship– just political discussion partners, say– the network formed by those ties alone can

Semi-supervised graph labelling reveals increasing partisanship in the United States Congress

social and political networks. This work refines and expands upon a new semi-supervised graph labelling method, the GLaSS method, that exactly calculates absorption probabilities for random walks on ... roll call voting data for 42 meetings of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, from 1935 to 2019. Analysis of the 84 resultant political networks demonstrates strong and consistent

Operationalizing anthropological theory: four techniques to simplify networks of co-occurring ethnographic codes

(all academic evidence to the contrary) is used to legitimise political control by the core nation and the marginalisation of minority ethnicities. Moreover, discourse scholars work from the assumption ... -19 pandemic. Research participants were asked about their opinion on the current state of affairs in their respective countries, and their political choices over the years and at present. The

Selecting a significance level in sequential testing procedures for community detection

417 × 17 matrix where the first column represents the political affiliation-republican and democrat. The adjacency matrix A is calculated by thresholding the correlations among congressmen by τ, i.e ... political parties. Here too, the significance level has a large impact on the analysis. For example, when τ = 0.7, changing α from 0.06 to 0.04 drops the number of communities from 5 to 4. Therefore, a

From co-location patterns to an informal social network of gig economy workers

can be found in Table 1. Furthermore, the chosen period was selected while considering conditions such as weather, epidemic outbreaks, and political situations. Information about the couriers and their

Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks

, traditional approaches lack the analytical tools to handle the structural and dynamical aspects that characterize modern social, political and technological systems where corruption takes place. On this matter ... that deviates from that purpose by distorting the goal for which all socio-political structures are created, sacrificing the well-being of the collective for the benefit of the few. According to the UN