Does Personalization Help? Predicting How Social Situations Affect Personal Values

How Does Social Capital Affect Retweets?

In Twitter, a retweet happens when a user copies another user's tweet, making it clear that the content is someone else's, and is a common way to share information. This paper explores user’s perceptions of the way social capital influences retweet practices. We discuss how Twitter users perceive values and how they create benefits for the social network and themselves from three points of view...

How Does Monetary Policy Affect Household Income Distribution?

Over the last decades the research on monetary policy has largely concentrated on the impact of monetary authorities’ decisions on inflation and the fine-tuning of the macroeconomic, so that distributional effects of monetary policy which are non-trivial has been ignored. A view that has become increasingly popular since the financial crisis 2008 is that expansionary monetary policy can exacerb...

How Does Students' Help-Seeking Behaviour Affect Learning?

We examined high-level help (HLH) seeking behaviour of students by data mining in SQL-Tutor. Students who used HLH very frequently had the lowest learning rate; their learning was also shallow. They attempted very difficult problems compared to other groups but only solved very easy problems, suggesting that they were usually situated well beyond their Zone of Proximal Development. They also ab...

Does personal social media usage affect efficiency and well-being?

How does angiotensin AT2 receptor activation help neuronal differentiation and improve neuronal pathological situations?

The angiotensin type 2 (AT(2)) receptor of angiotensin II has long been thought to be limited to few tissues, with the primary effect of counteracting the angiotensin type 1 (AT(1)) receptor. Functional studies in neuronal cells have demonstrated AT(2) receptor capability to modulate neuronal excitability, neurite elongation, and neuronal migration, suggesting that it may be an important regula...