Background Infertility is a disease that results in the abnormal functioning of the male or female reproductive system. Systematic research planning on any subject, including infertility is in need of solid data regarding previous efforts in this field and to identify the gaps in the research. Objective The aim of this research is to study the thematic structure of articles related to inferti...

This study sought to analyze characteristics of the social support network of the elderly with chronic pneumopathies, establishing links with health maintenance/rehabilitation. The assumptions of Social Network Analysis (SNA) methodology were used, addressing the social support concept. A questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, both applied to 16 elderly people attended by a public hospit...

a decrease in natural resources and their non-uniform distribution can affect social relationships between residents ofwatersheds, creating conflict and shifting groupings. the present study used the network analysis method to test thehypothesis that change in hydrologic parameters and water shortages in the village of tutang has led to the new groupingsin the social cooperation network of the ...

the concept of coordination in supply chain management is different from the viewpoint of the roles of this chain and this difference causes more uncoordination at the entire of the supply chain. hence, regarding to the importance of this subject at the performance of supply chain, the clarification of the coordination concept as a casual model seems very necessary. in this research, the cognit...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to report interaction patterns among Iranian authors of emergency medicine using social network analysis methodology, focusing on coauthorship network. METHODS The bibliographic data of Iranian authors on the 'emergency medicine' field during the years 2001-2011 were retrieved from the Science Citation Index Expanded database. Co-occurrence matrices we...

Animal conservation practices include the grouping of captive related and unrelated individuals to form a social structure which is characteristic of that species in the wild. In response to the rapid decline of wild African lion (Panthera leo) populations, an array of conservational strategies have been adopted. Ex situ reintroduction of the African lion requires the construction of socially c...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the network structure of collaboration between medical centers sharing authorship of scientific articles on smoking. MATERIAL AND METHODS Articles reporting smoking research by authors from 2 or more Spanish medical centers between 1999 and the end of 2003 were identified through the Science Citation Index. The network of collaboration behind the research was analyzed and...

Analysis and Visualization of Large Networks Using Pajek Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana) The first part of the contribution is a short overview of program Pajek. Pajek (Slovene word for Spider) is a program, for Windows (32 bit), for analysis and visualization of large networks. It is freely available, for noncommercial use, at its homepage: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/p...

Objective – Identify whether companies with substantial aspects related to sustainability and corporate social Responsibility (CSR) high market values are consistent what is presented in reports posts on media. Methodology The virtual communities investigated were based Interbrand rankings, the most valuable brands, Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Twitter was network chosen elements of netnogra...

This study was conducted to analyze the perspectives of transnational media reporting on Sino-US trade. News reports from Associated Press and Xinhua Agency were collected March 20, 2018, October 31, 2018. Text mining frequency analysis performed by Python examine significant keywords news reports. Eigenvector centralities Modularity Gephi. QAP correlation analyses Ucinet. As a result, had diff...