This study uses data on campaign contributions and methods of network analysis to investigate the significance of interlocking directorates for political cohesion among corporate elites. Using quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) regression, the author shows that social ties formed through common membership on corporate boards contribute more to similarity of political behavior than commonaliti...

Children with slow expressive language development (SELD) as toddlers and a control group of children with normal language development (NL) were followed to early school age. Children with SELD were, at that point, subdivided into two groups: those who had moved within the normal range of expressive language (the History of Expressive Language Delay [HELD] subgroup); and those who continued to ...

Learning takes place in a social context, shaping and shaped by discourses. In online projects such as the Schome Park Programme, these discourses are material-semiotic practices (Haraway 1997) that make use of writing and other manifestations of digital literacies. Discourses include traceable patterns with linguistic features of distinctive forms and functions. Employing a sociocultural persp...

Although a thorough understanding of fatigue crack initiation is lacking, experiments have shown that the evolution of distinct dislocation distributions and surface roughness are key ingredients. In the present study we introduce a computational framework that ties together dislocation dynamics, the fields due to crystallographic surface steps and cohesive surfaces to model near-atomic separat...

In studies of social dynamics, cohesion refers to a group’s tendency to stay in unity, which – as argued in sociometry – arises from the network topology of interpersonal ties between members of the group. We follow this idea and propose a game-based model of cohesion that not only relies on the social network, but also reflects individuals’ social needs. In particular, our model is a type of c...

This article examines the sociological factors that explain why some creative teams are able to produce game changers--cultural products that stand out as distinctive while also being critically recognized as outstanding. The authors build on work pointing to structural folding--the network property of a cohesive group whose membership overlaps with that of another cohesive group. They hypothes...

Friendships with competitors can improve the performance of organizations through the mechanisms of enhanced collaboration, mitigated competition, and better information exchange. Moreover, these benefits are best achieved when competing managers are embedded in a cohesive network of friendships (i.e., one with many friendships among competitors), since cohesion facilitates the verification of ...

There has been a burgeoning literature about interfirm network and innovative performance. However, in reviewing the extant literature we find different interpretations regarding how firms should be tied to one another in networks. The paper employs case study to explore and explain the relative propositions of interfirm network, different organizational learning and technological innovation. I...

This study is intended to examine the problems of translating texts; it one few studies which tackle translation at a text level, area ignored by many researchers in field. More specifically, investigates achieving cohesion using Arabic conjunction wa و, fa ف and thumma ثُمَّ while texts from English into Arabic. Its population was third-year students who studied Translation courses Faculty Educat...