News tagged with social structure
Honoring the fundamental role of microbes in the natural history of our planet
Inspired by a 2009 colloquium on microbial evolution convened at the Galapagos Islands, a new book from ASM Press, Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw celebrates Charles Darwin and his landmark publication ...
May 30, 2012 |
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Whether tweets live or die depends more on network, competition for attention than message or user influence
On the global social media stage, it's not so much the message but rather network structure and competition for attention that determine whether a meme becomes popular and shows staying power or whether it ...
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Protecting people from deadly floods, quakes in the Philippines
Typhoons thrash the Philippines every year, causing flash flooding and mudslides that often kill hundreds of people in the Southeast Asian nation. Many blame the death and destruction on the wrath of nature. ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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India probes Google over 'forex transactions'
Indian authorities are probing whether online giant Google broke domestic foreign-exchange transactions rules while shifting funds abroad, the Press Trust of India reported on Friday.
Feb 10, 2012 |
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I wanna talk like you (oo)
The role of social structure in animal communication is hotly debated. Non-human primates seem to be born with a range of calls and sounds which is dependent upon their species. But overlying this there seems to be some flexibility ...
Dec 16, 2011 |
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Violent passions -- jealous cleaner shrimp murder their rivals
The hermaphroditic cleaner shrimp Lysmata amboinensis usually live in monogamous pairs, but dark passions underlie their social structure. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Fronti ...
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Mass. schools team up for supercomputer center
(AP) -- At a gritty industrial site occupied a century ago by a textile mill, five universities are collaborating to install supercomputers that will recreate the start of the universe and perform other research.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 09, 2011 |
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Ambrosia beetles have highly socialized systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ambrosia beetles have long eluded scientists when it comes to being able to study their natural social structure. These beetles live deep within the solid wood of trees and when you disturb ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Bull elephants' social behavior varies with the rainfall
(PhysOrg.com) -- The lone bull elephant is an image as iconic to the African savanna as the lonesome cowboy on horseback is to the American West. Although female elephants form tightly knit groups guided ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Monogamous queens help bees cooperate
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published today in Nature Communications online journal suggests that monogamy and close genetic relationships work together to enhance the cooperative social structure of ins ...
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Male African cichlid fish go from 'zero to 60' when mating calls, researchers find (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In African cichlid fish society, only the dominant male reproduces. But Stanford researchers have found that if the dominant male disappears, a subordinate cichlid can rise to the procreative ...
Jul 14, 2011 |
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An egalitarian Internet? Not so, study says
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Internet is often thought of as a forum that enables egalitarian communication among people from diverse backgrounds and political persuasions, but a University of Georgia study reveals ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Anthropologists link human uniqueness to hunter-gatherer group structure
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most complex human mysteries involves how and why we became an outlier species in terms of biological success.
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Illinois income tax increase a missed opportunity for tax reform
Already under fire for raising taxes on individuals and businesses, the state Legislature missed a major opportunity to update the Illinois tax structure, says a University of Illinois law professor.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 19, 2011 |
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An equation for friendship
If only they had been there in 1939: Plugging in numbers representing the friendliness between pairs of nations at the outset of World War II, researchers at Cornell University used a computer program to successfully predict ...
Jan 17, 2011 |
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