FAST-EVP (Fluid-Dynamics Analysis Software Tool for Engine Virtual Prototyping) is a simulation tool for internal combustion engines running on cluster platforms; it has evolved from the KIVA-3V code base, but has been extensively rewritten making use of modern numerical software for linear systems, parallel programming techniques and advanced physical models. The software is currently in use a...

This document describes the techniques used in and results of our project to apply social and information network analysis to the Kiva.org online microlending network. The Kiva network can be modeled as a set of bipartite graphs linking lenders to loans, lending teams to loans, and individual lenders to lending teams. Folding the lender-loan graph to create a graph of lenders linked by common l...

This paper studies the gender gap in accessing financial resources through crowdfunding by developing a novel construct for social capital, latent network capital. We provide original empirical evidence based on 985 projects hosted Kiva, platform reaching 3.7 million borrowers, 81 % of them women, assessing how interplay between capital and project proposer affects amount funds raised. To this ...

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