The Influence of Perceptions of Risks and Benefits on the Continuity of Use of Fintech Services by Artur Barretti Mascarenhas, Cristiane Koda Perpétuo, Erika Borgonovo Barrote, Maria Paula Perides

“…The data collection was performed through an electronic survey, distributed through social networks during May and June of 2019. The main results confirmed seven of the eleven initial hypotheses, highlighting that the perceived benefits, especially the economic ones, were relevant to early adopters and seamless transactions were relevant for late adopters. …”
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Attenuation processes in positive social emotion upregulation: Disentangling functional role of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex by Dmitriy D. Bezmaternykh, Mikhail Ye. Melnikov, Evgeny D. Petrovskiy, Ksenia G. Mazhirina, Andrey A. Savelov, Mark B. Shtark, Patrik Vuilleumier, Yury Koush

“…We also found that individual perception of sociality modulates connectivity between affective and social networks. This study expands our understanding of neural circuits required to balance positive emotions in social situations and their rehabilitative potential.…”
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La ruine angkorienne et le fromager : une mise en cloche d’un paysage fantasmé synonyme d’inaction ? by Sébastien Preuil

“…In the specific case of Angkor, the architectural jewel of Khmer civilization, certain representations of landscapes forged during the colonial era, and which are now relayed by the media and social networks, have repercussions on the way certain temples are managed. …”
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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…Therising popularity and scale of social networking sites such asTwitter may play an important role in detecting, affecting, andpredicting influenza epidemics. …”
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Delaying Onset of Dementia: Are Two Languages Enough? by Morris Freedman, Suvarna Alladi, Howard Chertkow, Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik, Natalie A. Phillips, Vasanta Duggirala, Surampudi Bapi Raju, Thomas H. Bak

“…Although the mechanisms are unknown, it has been suggested that these may involve cognitive reserve, a concept that has been associated with factors such as higher levels of education, occupational status, social networks, and physical exercise. In the case of bilingualism, cognitive reserve may involve reorganization and strengthening of neural networks that enhance executive control. …”
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Community-Based Social Capital as a Pillar of Disaster Mitigation in Coastal Areas by Wati Rita, Sujianto, Heriyanto Meyzi, Adianto Adianto, Sutikno Sigit, Febrian Achmad Fajri

“…The results highlight that community-based social capital is built upon shared values, norms, trust, and commitments, fostering robust social networks and relationships. These networks are instrumental in spreading information, enhancing disaster preparedness, fostering social solidarity, and bolstering community efforts in disaster mitigation. …”
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A Multi-granularity Decomposition Mechanism of Complex Tasks Based on Density Peaks by Ziling Pang, Guoyin Wang, Jie Yang

“…Furthermore, comprehensive experiments are presented to verify the applicability and veracity of our proposed method in community-detection tasks with several benchmark complex social networks. The results show that our method outperforms other four state-of-the-art approaches.…”
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USO DO INSTAGRAM, SATISFAÇÃO DA IMAGEM CORPORAL E AUTOESTIMA EM MULHERES JOVENS by Mariana Pires Portugal, Gustavo Marcelino Siquara

“…The research was published on social networks and was requested that other people would share on theirs. …”
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Utilizing Structural Network Positions to Diversify People Recommendations on Twitter by Ekaterina Olshannikova, Erjon Skenderi, Thomas Olsson, Sami Koivunen, Jukka Huhtamäki

“…The proposed strategy contributes to the design of a people recommender system, which exposes users to diverse recommendations and facilitates new social ties in online social networks. In addition, we advance user-centered evaluation methods by proposing measures for subjective perceptions of people recommendations.…”
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A dynamic preference recommendation model based on spatiotemporal knowledge graphs by Xinyu Fan, Yinqin Ji, Bei Hui

“…Abstract Recommender systems are of increasing importance owing to the growth of social networks and the complexity of user behavior, and cater to the personalized needs of users. …”
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Development and validation of social inclusion scale for stock market participation by S. M. Riha Parvin, Niyaz Panakaje, Madhura K, Niha Sheikh, Shakira Irfana

“…Social interaction reflects engagement with social groups during major investments, peer effect captures the influence of peers' investment success, and social capital highlights the role of resourceful social networks in investment decisions. This scale is a valuable tool for investors, financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and researchers to assess social inclusion's impact on stock market participation and shape policies for market inclusivity. …”
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The Evolution Model of Public Risk Perception Based on Pandemic Spreading Theory under Perspective of COVID-19 by Yi-Cheng Zhang, Zhi Li, Guo-Bing Zhou, Nai-Ru Xu, Jia-Bao Liu

“…Second, we analyze the characteristics of risk perception transmission in social networks. Third, we establish the dynamic model of public risk perception evolution based on SEIR, and the evolution mechanism of the public risk perception network is revealed through simulation experiments. …”
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Circulation d’un modèle urbain "alternatif" ? by Nicolas Douay, Maryvonne Prévot

“…If the tactical planning endeavors to show that everyone has the capacity to transform, at the local level, how to think and plan the city, not as in his own name but on behalf of interest shared by other members of his community, alternative urban model relies thus on a large community connected to social networks that allow the movement to adopt new practices and initiatives and to adapt it in different local contexts. …”
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Travail, Mémoires et Femmes dans la ceinture industrielle de Lisbonne (Portugal) by Inês Fonseca

“…Consequently, they have always been the first to constitute social networks of support as well as the first to resort to those networks – through the informal groups of relatives, neighbours, friends co-workers and also through more formal groups, like local associations and cooperatives of production.…”
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Optimization of the Marketing Management System Based on Cloud Computing and Big Data by Lin Zhang

“…With the rapid development of the Internet information age, social networks, mobile Internet, and e-commerce have expanded the scope of Internet applications. …”
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New Concepts in the Vague Graph Structure with an Application in Transportation by Xiaolong Shi, Saeed Kosari

“…Domination is one of the key issues that has many applications in computer science and social networks. Today, many researchers are trying to prove its application in medical sciences and psychology. …”
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Effect of Contact Preference among Heterogeneous Individuals on Social Contagions by Yining Xu, Jinghua Xiao, Xiaochen Wang

“…In social networks, individual heterogeneity is widely existed, and an individual often tends to contact more frequently with friends of similar status or opinion. …”
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Book review: Kravchenko S. A. “Sociology of Digitalisation: university textbook” by N. N. Meshcheryakova, L. A. Vasilenko

“…Kravchenko calls this new reality the socio-digital-natural reality, in which, primarily in social networks, both human actors and non-human (digital) actors, sociotechnical and techno-social hybrids operate. …”
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Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications by Chad C. Tossell, Philip Kortum, Clayton W. Shepard, Ahmad Rahmati, Lin Zhong

“…Topically, this methodology can be applied to domains interested in understanding mediated communications such as mobile content and systems design, teamwork, and social networks.…”
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