Category Archives: Social network

How social media transform migrant networks and facilitate migration

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Anitha

Rianne Dekker and Godfried Engbersen This paper argues that social media transform migrant networks and thereby facilitate migration. The data gathered during the research reveals four ways in which this happens: 1) using social media helps migrants to maintain strong … Continue reading →

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Urban India, Volume 31, Issue 2, July- December 2011

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Saritha

Contents 1)      Assessment of Vulnerabilities of Indian Cities to Climate Change Jyoti Parikh, Manoranjan Mishra and Dinoj Kr Upadhyay 2)      The Need of the Flexible-Planning Approach to Sustainable Urban Development: A Research Frontier Abhijit Paul 3)      Planning for Sustainable Urban … Continue reading →

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Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Odelia Heizler and Ayal Kimhi IZA DP No. 6380, February 2012 This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the oldest and youngest child and the age of … Continue reading →

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Sensitivity of Centrality and Centralization Measures to theLevel of Decentralization in the Network Structure

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Ram Babu Roy and Uttam Kumar Sarkar IIMC WPS No.693, January 2012 Analytic expressions for node centrality and network centralization measures based on degree, betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector centrality are derived for network topologies with varying levels of decentralization. … Continue reading →

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