NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND DYNAMICS: RECIPROCITY, COMPETITION AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Report Title Networks are commonly used to study complex systems. This often requires a good understanding of the structural characteristics and evolution dynamics of networks, and also their impacts on a variety of dynamic processes taking place on top of them. In this thesis, we study various aspects ...

In 1958 E. Lehmer found an explicit description of those primes p for which a given prime q is a cubic residue. Her result states that if one writes 4p = L + 27M, then q is a cubic residue if and only if M/L ≡ (t − 1)/(t − 9t) mod q for some integer t. Recently, Z. Sun has stated a similar result for cubic nonresidues which follows from several corollaries appearing in an earlier paper of his. ...

in this paper, we discuss the ways that communication accommodation theory (cat) can be a useful framework for understanding and diagnosing interactional issues in interpersonal and intergroup conflict situations. we argue that the theory’s construct of attuning strategies provides a multidimensional view of mutual adjustment, leading to insights relevant to successful versus unsuccessful confl...