Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how firms' alliance learning approaches and their joint and relative embeddedness in alliance networks (joint brokerage positions and relative centrality) can interact to drive subsequent acquisitions of alliance partners.

TL;DR: NetCoMi (Network Construction and comparison for Microbiome data), an R package that integrates existing methods for each analysis step in a single reproducible computational workflow, is introduced, offering functionality for constructing and analyzing single microbial association networks as well as quantifying network differences.

TL;DR: This work assesses the performances of different subsets of structural network features, and in particular those concerned with ego-networks, in predicting the Big-5 personality traits, and focuses on social networks derived from real-life data gathered through smartphones.

TL;DR: For the past 20 years, researches using the lens of world system theory (and other global political economy perspectives) have come to a better understanding of many of the anomalies in urban environments.

TL;DR: It is shown that the optimum location of a switching center is always at a vertex of the communication network while the best location for the police station is not necessarily at an intersection.