This descriptive study of millions of US Facebook users documents "friending" and communication patterns, exploring parent-child relationships across a variety of life stages and gender combinations. Using statistical techniques on 400,000 posts and comments, we identify differences in how parents talk to their children (giving advice, affection, and reminders to call) compared to their other f...

In this paper we develop and test an encompassing theoretical framework for the explanation of the geographical and temporal spread of extreme right violence. This framework combines internal precipitating factors related to ethnic competition, social disintegration, and political opportunity structures, which make certain localities more prone to exhibit ethnic violence, with diffusion variabl...

Field Editor: D. Jennings This study examines how the performance of cross-border venture capital investments is affected by national institutional and cultural distances between the environments of venture capitalists (VCs) and investee ventures. We propose that institutional and cultural distances will decrease VCs' effectiveness in conducting venture capital activities and negatively affect ...

In the eld of geography, we have beenexamining the contribution of the morpho-genetic rep-resentation to the comprehension of the cycle: reality,representation, model, reality. A distinction is madebetween map and geomap based on the notion of locus-object. 1. Foundations and limits of cartographic rep-

Abstract Rural entrepreneurship has become an important research issue with great development potential in the face of intense socio-economic changes rural areas. However, few significant studies cover this topic Polish and foreign literature. In article, authors attempt to review evaluate current on emphasising literature including geographical studies. The article describes organises theoreti...

We investigated how the visibility of targets influenced the type of point used to provide directions. In Study 1, we asked 605 passersby in three localities for directions to well-known local landmarks. When that landmark was in plain view behind the requester, most respondents pointed with their index fingers, and few respondents pointed more than once. In contrast, when the landmark was not ...

Route directions are natural language (NL) statements that specify, for a given navigational task and an automatically computed route representation, a sequence of actions to be followed by the user to reach his or her goal. A corpusbased approach to generate route directions involves (i) the selection of elements along the route that need to be mentioned, and (ii) the induction of a mapping fr...

The current sanctions introduced against Russian science are imposing serious consequences on interactions between researchers all over the world. In order to analyse approaches mitigating resulting negative effects, author turns theories of external shocks and crisis management. Criteria that characterise modern distinguished, which basis transformations in editorial policy a journal aimed at ...