Abstract The history of intellectuals consists a complex web influences and interconnections philosophers, scientists, writers, their work, ideas. To understand how did these evolve over time, we mined network influence 12,500 intellectuals, enriched it with temporal dimension dividing the into six eras. We analyze time-sliced projections within-era, inter-era, accumulated-era networks, identif...

Information cascades are ubiquitous in both physical society and online social media, taking on large variations in structures, dynamics and semantics. Although there has been much progress on understanding the dynamics and semantics of information cascades, little is known about their structural patterns. In this paper, we explore a large-scale dataset including 432 million information cascade...

Inflammatory condition is the consequence of defensive mechanism of immune system against viral and bacterial infection, tissue injury, UV radiation, stress and etc. Persistently acute inflammation leads to chronic phase which is characterized by production of pro-inflammatory mediators from T cells. These molecules (e.g. IL-6, TNF-&alpha, IL-1&beta and IL-17) are mostly pleiotropic cytokines i...

long-term potentiation (ltp) is a process that certain types of synaptic stimulation lead to a long-lasting enhancement in the strength of synaptic transmission. studies in recent years indicate the importance of molecular pathways in the development of memory and learning. tropomyosin receptor kinase b (trkb) is a member of the neurotrophin receptor tyrosine kinase family, that its ligand is b...

Finite-state cascades represent an attractive architecture for parsing unrestricted text. Deterministic parsers speciied by nite-state cascades are fast and reliable. They can be extended at modest cost to construct parse trees with nite feature structures. Finally, such deterministic parsers do not necessarily involve trading oo accuracy against speed| they may in fact be more accurate than ex...

Cascades on social and information networks have been a tremendously popular subject of study in the past decade, and there is a considerable literature on phenomena such as diffusion mechanisms, virality, cascade prediction, and peer network effects. Against the backdrop of this research, a basic question has received comparatively little attention: how desirable are cascades on a social media...

Social network services (SNSs) have become new global and multilingual information platforms due to their popularity. In SNSs with content-sharing functionality, such as "retweets'' in Twitter and "share'' in Facebook, posts are easily and quickly shared among users, and some grow into large information cascades. Accompanied with such growth, cascades can spread over regions and languages. The ...

Information cascades are ubiquitous in both physical society and online social media, taking on large variations in structures, dynamics and semantics. Although the dynamics and semantics of information cascades have been studied, the structural patterns and their correlations with dynamics and semantics are largely unknown. Here we explore a large-scale dataset including 432 million informatio...