Rumors have been studied for several decades in social and psychological fields, where most studies were theory-driven and relied on surveys due to difficulties in gathering data. Rumor research is now gaining new perspectives, because online social media enable researchers to examine closely various kinds of information dissemination on the Internet. In this paper, we review social psychology ...

How entangled is a randomly chosen bipartite stabilizer state? We show that if the number of qubits each party holds is large, the state will be close to maximally entangled with probability exponentially close to 1. We provide a similar tight characterization of the entanglement present in the maximally mixed state of a randomly chosen stabilizer code. Finally, we show that typically very few ...

When faced with complex situations, it can often be hard to put into words and accurately express it appropriately. This becomes increasingly difficult when specialist expressions are required that are not used in everyday language. The problem is faced when trying to express in words to another person the wine that you just drank, or a wine that you want to drink to a waiter at a restaurant or...

We present a general information exponential inequality that measures the statistical complexity of some deterministic and randomized density estimators. Using this inequality, we are able to improve classical results concerning the convergence of two-part code MDL in [1]. Moreover, we are able to derive clean finite-sample convergence bounds that are not obtainable using previous approaches.

Alfred Schütz original contribution to the social sciences refers to his analysis of the structure of the “life-world”. This article aims to invigorate interest in the work of this author, little known in the field of health psychology. Key concepts of Schütz’ approach will be presented in relation to their potential interest to the understanding of the experience of illness. In particular, we ...

A brief interview to measure stress coping capabilities was developed and tested in 4 samples of African American and White adolescents in low-income neighborhoods of 2 large U.S. cities. The Social Competence Interview (SCI) is a 10-min social stressor that assesses physiological and social-emotional responses to a recurring real-life problem. A new behavioral coding system using audiotapes pe...

Considering a social network of code developers and a contribution index, the goals of this paper are: to analyze the contribution of repositories of different programming languages, analyze the correlation between languages, and draw interesting profiles from such an interesting data repository.

Over the past decade, policy-makers have introduced social mixing initiatives that have sought to address urban social problems by deconcentrating poor and workingclass communities through attracting the middle classes back to the city. Such a policy objective clearly ‘smells like gentrifi cation’. However, some commentators have warned against being critical of these policies, pointing out tha...