According to a 2015 Global Web Index report, today's average adult spends 6.15 hours a day online. More than a quarter of this time is spent on social networking sites. Life in the digital age means an abundance—arguably ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 4, 2015
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Communities are defined by flux: friendships that form and break, loyalties that shift, and visitors passing through. But these dynamic interactions aren't represented in static maps of social networks. Snapshot diagrams-with ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2015
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Why are men more aggressive than women? There are two competing theories. However, a study by Oxford University researchers has found that both may actually be right.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2015
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A team of researchers with the University of California has found a way to show how historical contingencies constrained the evolution of a gene regulatory network. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team ...
With every click, Facebook, Twitter and other social media users leave behind digital traces of themselves, information that can be used by businesses, government agencies and other groups that rely on "big data."
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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Network analysis—the mathematical analysis of relationships between elements or actors in a complex system—has become popular among transportation planners and spatial analysts, but its use remains relatively limited ...
Software
Jun 17, 2015
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Big Data presents scientists with unfolding opportunities, including, for instance, the possibility of discovering heterogeneous characteristics in the population leading to the development of personalized treatments and ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 26, 2014
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The illegal use of waste cooking oil in parts of the nationwide food system is threatening the public's health in China.
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 26, 2014
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Two Brazilian physicists have devised a method to automatically elucidate the meaning of words with several senses, based solely on their patterns of connectivity with nearby words in a given sentence – and not on semantics. ...
General Physics
Jul 3, 2013
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If you have just seen a play that you privately think is drivel, will you keep silent when everyone around you demands an encore?
Social Sciences
Jun 19, 2013
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