A history of literary prestige needs to study both works that achieved distinction and the mass of volumes from which they were distinguished. To understand how those patterns of preference changed across a century, we gathered two samples of English-language poetry from the period 1820–1919: one drawn from volumes reviewed in prominent periodicals and one selected at random from a large digita...

We deliver a short overview of different centrality measures and influence concepts in social networks, and present the relation-algebraic approach to the concepts of power and influence. First, we briefly discuss four kinds of measures of centrality: the ones based on degree, closeness, betweenness, and the eigenvector-related measures. We consider centrality of a node and of a network. Moreov...

If people are so self-interested, why do they give their money away to charities? One possibility is that people care about the level of the public good their donations provide. But this is not a good explanation: free-riding typically dominates donating even for people who care a great deal about the good in question, and even in groups that are substantially smaller than those in which people...

The paper reports the work and results of Prestige: Guidelines in Healthcare, a large EU project designed to applying ICT to assist the application of clinical practice guidelines.

This study aims to: (1) introduce the concept of resilience to negative electronic word mouth (eWOM); and (2) examine a process model from self-congruity, brand attachment, prestige, eWOM using moderation mediation model. A time-lag approach was conducted collect data, involving 312 students two universities in Jakarta. Moderation hierarchical regression macro is used test hypothesis. The resul...