Occupy as a World Anti-Systemic Movement

Jeffrey Sachs: Fairness and the Occupy Movement Revisited

A recent Wall Street Journal article by Arthur C. Brooks on the Occupy Movement and fairness («Fairness and the ‘Occupy’ Movement, November 25) says some interesting things about potential common ground between free-market ideas and the Occupy movement. Yet Brooks also commits some very important errors. Perhaps with clearer facts there could be more common ground on reforming the economy and p...

Structural Patterns of the Occupy Movement on Facebook

In this work we study a peculiar example of social organization on Facebook: the Occupy Movement – i.e., an international protest movement against social and economic inequality organized online at a city level. We consider 179 US Facebook public pages during the time period between September 2011 and February 2013. The dataset includes 618K active users and 753K posts that received about 5.2M ...

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Discover Diamonds-in-the-Rough using Interactive Visual Analytics System: Tweets as a Collective Diary of the Occupy Movement

The phenomenally wide-adoption of social media has stimulated a new means in organizing and carrying-out modern social movements. Exemplified by the Occupy Movement (OM), rich information, including protestrelated events and people’s responses to those events, is posted and shared through social media sites such as Twitter. However, it is quite challenging to make sense of such valuable informa...

Anti-C1Q Antibody as A Marker In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Objective: To study the correlation of anti C1q antibodies with disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Study Design: Cross sectional, observational study. Place and Duration of study: The Department of Immunology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi in collaboration with Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad a...