The modern sciences more often use the gender factor in the interpretative procedure. Demographers also have chance to involve this factor in analysis. There are some indicators of gender gaps or inequalities in distribution of resources located in both microenvironment (households) and macroenvironment. Human capital formation and development also demonstrate gender inequalities in process. Po...

The extensive use of social media during disasters raises an important issue concerning use of social media to spread information, including misinformation. This study explores the underlying behavioral context of disaster information sharing by Twitter users. We conducted a web survey with 999 respondents in Japan to determine what makes people retweet disaster information in disaster situatio...

Personal skill information on social media is at the core of many interesting applications. In this paper, we propose a factor graph based approach to automatically infer skills from personal profile incorporated with both personal and skill connections. We first extract personal connections with similar academic and business background (e.g. co-major, co-university, and co-corporation). We the...