The article is devoted to the visualization of image a Chinese in periodical press Urals 1950s. Using methodology critical discourse analysis, authors identify several target groups that form image, describe their characteristic features and highlight general special characteristics. source base was made up materials from Ural press. During “Great friendship” who took part labor training at ent...

Abstract. Social exclusion, even from minimal game-based interactions, induces negative consequences. We investigated whether the nature of relationship with excluder modulates effects ostracism. Participants played a virtual ball-tossing game stranger and friend (friend condition) or their romantic partner (partner while being fully included, excluded, excluded only by stranger, close other. R...

In 1957, Charlotte Friend described a novel retroviral disease in mice characterized by splenic enlargement, erythroleukemia, and death.1 This rapidly progressive disease, now known as Friend disease, has provided a powerful tool for the study of multistage carcinogenesis. Transformed murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cells, isolated from Friend virus–infected mice, have also provided a versatile mo...

In this paper we give an overview of the Foafing the Music system. The system uses the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and Rich Site Summary (RSS) vocabularies for recommending music to a user, depending on her musical tastes. Music information (new album releases, related artists’ news and available audio) is gathered from thousands of RSS feeds —an XML format for syndicating Web content. On the oth...

We investigate information cascades in the context of viral marketing applications. Recent research has identified that communities in social networks may hinder cascades. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel method for injecting social links in a social network, aiming at boosting the spread of information cascades. Unlike the proposed approach, existing link prediction methods do not ...

This paper focuses on two of three related projects that are currently being undertaken as part of a larger investigation into whether the semantic web can be brought to hobbyist groups on the Internet. A lot of research is being done into the semantic web and creating semantic web applications. This research tends to fall into two categories academic applications such as AKTive Space or simple...