Cultured neuronal networks generate spontaneous activity in the form of synchronized bursting events (SBEs)—short time events during which most of the recorded neurons fire rapidly. Each neuron in the SBE has its own temporal firing rate pattern. It has been shown that a large network can exhibit several SBE sub-groups, each with its own characteristic spatio-temporal pattern of activity. In th...

Concepts like knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, Internet society, and network society fail to grasp the dialectic of the continuity and discontinuity of society. These concepts take the changes associated with new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. Contemporary capitalism is highly antagonist...

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The efficient use of available resources is a key factor in achieving success on both personal and organizational levels. One of the crucial resources in knowledge economy is time. The ability to force others to adapt to our schedule even if it harms their efficiency can be seen as an outcome of social stratification. The principal objective of this paper is to use time allocation to model and ...

We revisit a recently introduced agent model [ACS 11, 99 (2008)], where economic growth is a consequence of education (human capital formation) and innovation, and investigate the influence of the agents’ social network, both on an agent’s decision to pursue education and on the output of new ideas. Regular and random networks are considered. The results are compared with the predictions of a m...

The network enterprises have appeared after the industrial revolution, and they have been studied indeed as a revolution in doing business. With the rise of the new informational platforms, a new type of network enterprise has appeared: a more collaborative, efficient and fast moving one; and thus, network society was born. Since then, there have been recorded changes in the human society, from...

Several concepts are available to indicate the type of society that evolves under the influence of the use of information and communication technology. The most popular concept is the information society. In this book that concept is used in combination with the concept network society to typify contemporary developed and modern societies marked by a high level of information exchange and use o...

Network society is an ever-changing robust system expanding new nods as long as they can communicate. Videos, as a source of information and communication, are one of the most strategic nods in this architecture. The present study is a scholarly attempt in investigating the effects of videos on facilitating the process of migration for the Iranian students. To this end, our case studies partici...