Social Network Analysis (SNA) provides graph algorithms to characterize the structure of social networks, strategic positions in these networks, specific sub-networks and decompositions of people and activities. Online social platforms like Facebook form huge social networks, enabling people to connect, interact and share their online activities across several social applications. We extended S...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) allow users to create and share content (e.g., posts, status updates, comments) in real-time. These activities are collected in an activity log, (e.g. Facebook Wall, Google+ Stream, etc.) on the user’s social network profile. With time, the activity logs of users, which record the sequences of social activities, become too long and consequently hard to view and nav...

Older people spend much time participating in leisure activities, such as taking part in organized activities and going out, but the extent of participation may differ according to both individual and environmental resources available. Chronic health problems become more prevalent at higher ages and likely necessitate tapping different resources to maintain social participation. This paper comp...

We examine the role of change agency in social innovations. Agency innovations can create new resources and capacities for transformative a region. To date, there is lack empirical studies investigating how manifests itself In particular, research has not yet investigated detailed activities innovation actors throughout phases processes. this paper we apply concept trinity to investigate actors...

regarding competitive world, economic factors and socialfactors could be effective on business. the social network has animportant role as social characteristics, propulsion and basic force forsocial cohesion in internet business activities. the purpose of this paper isto examine the impact of social networks on the internet businesssustainability by intermediation of entrepreneurial intention....

We assessed how children's self-concepts of ability for mathematics, English, social, and physical skills activities, ratings of the importance of these activities, and general self-esteem change across the transition to junior high school. Three types of change were assessed: change in mean levels, change in stability, and change in relationships. Twice each year during the sixth and seventh g...

In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis in the rural development literature on the multiple income-generating activities undertaken by rural households and the importance of assets in determining the capacity to undertake these activities. Controlling for endogeneity choice and applying Lee's generalization of Amemiya's two-step estimator to a simultaneous equation model, household ...

Search and Social have been widely considered to be two separate applications. Indeed, most people use search engines and visit social sites to conduct vastly different activities. This talk presents opportunities where search and social can be integrated synergistically. For instance, on the one hand, a search engine can mine search history data to facilitate uses to engage in social activitie...