With his doctorate from Princeton, Army Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has become the prime example of a special breed of soldier: the warrior-scholar, trained in history and politics as well as how to fight wars. Now there’s a variation on the theme: the warrior mathematician, adept in the complex modeling that [...]
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U.S. ‘Connects The Dots’ To Catch Roadside Bombers
Posted: December 6, 2010 in Social Network, Sosyal AğTags: Social Network
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On the tarmac of Osvaldo Vieira, the international airport of the West African coastal country of Guinea-Bissau, sits a once-elegant Gulfstream jet, which in the normal course of events would have no reason to land in a country with no business opportunities and virtually no economy. In recent years, however, Guinea-Bissau has emerged as a [...]
Strange as it sounds, loneliness may be contagious The holiday season is entering the home stretch, but flu season is just getting going. And so, we’re warned, the upcoming New Year’s parties and homeward airplane trips and visits to the mall to return our gifts won’t just mean encounters with crowds, they will mean opportunities [...]
Human Capital x Social Capital = Productivity and Innovation
Posted: December 16, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Capital
As a culture we like to think of our achievements as the triumph of the individual. But last week I used a memorable chicken breeding example to show you that group performance outweighs individual performance in a group environment because a focus on individual performance comes at a cost to the group performance. The reality [...]
More interpersonal trust can have a significant impact on growth in developing countries
Posted: December 16, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Capital
It has been claimed that interpersonal trust can play more of a role in how an economy develops than capital, as the complexity of business transactions increases. In a recent thesis from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, researcher Pelle Ahlerup demonstrates that there is reason to believe that [...]
UNLV students weigh in on findings of Internet-oriented study You may have heard of tweeting or updating your “status” on your favorite social networking site, but perhaps there’s even more to status and social networking than meets the eye. Social networking is a quickly-growing use for the World Wide Web, drawing the attention of Internet [...]
Report: Time Spent on Social Networks, Blogs Triples in Past Year
Posted: September 25, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Network
Internet users in August spent 17% of their surfing time on social network and blogging sites, nearly triple the percentage of time spent on such sites a year ago, according to new figures released by Nielsen. “This growth suggests a wholesale change in the way the Internet is used,” said Jon Gibs, the vice president [...]
Social factors influence neighborhood asthma rates
Posted: July 5, 2009 in Social NetworkTags: Social Capital
Childhood asthma is less common in neighborhoods with high economic potential and strong community vitality, new research shows. “It’s nice to be able to look at some positive characteristics of neighborhoods that may protect against asthma,” Dr. Ruchi S. Gupta, of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, one of the researchers on the study, told Reuters [...]
