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Node centrality in weighted networks: Generalizing degree and shortest paths by Opsahl, Tore, Agneessens, Filip, Skvoretz, John

“…Ties often have a strength naturally associated with them that differentiate them from each other. Tie strength has been operationalized as weights. A few…”
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Examining physical and virtual sexual and drug risk venue co-attendance among PrEP-eligible Latinx sexual minority men by Craker, Lacey, Rodriguez, Edda, Johnson, Ariana L., Silvey, Rebe, Skvoretz, John, Kanamori, Mariano

“…Disparities in Latinx sexual minority men (LSMM) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation and adherence demonstrate the need for innovative strategies to…”
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Sexual and gender minority undergraduates' relationships and strategies for managing fit in STEM by Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Malaykhan, Mya, Smith, Chrystal A S, Hughes Miller, Michelle, Puccia, Ellen, Mayberry, Maralee, Skvoretz, John, Wao, Hesborn

“…Undergraduates with sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) identities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, pansexual, intersexual,…”
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Experimental evaluation of baselines for forecasting social media timeseries by Ng, Kin Wai, Mubang, Frederick, Hall, Lawrence O., Skvoretz, John, Iamnitchi, Adriana

“…Forecasting social media activity can be of practical use in many scenarios, from understanding trends, such as which topics are likely to engage more users in…”
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The South Carolina Network Exchange Datasets by John Skvoretz

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The influence of expressive and instrumental social capital from parents on women and underrepresented minority students’ declaration and persistence in engineering majors by Puccia, Ellen, Martin, Julie P., Smith, Chrystal A. S., Kersaint, Gladis, Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Wao, Hesborn, Lee, Reginald, Skvoretz, John, MacDonald, George

“…Background Social capital, defined as the people one knows and the resources available through that network of people, has been a key variable in research…”
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Modeling information diffusion in social media: data-driven observations by Iamnitchi, Adriana, Hall, Lawrence O, Horawalavithana, Sameera, Mubang, Frederick, Ng, Kin Wai, Skvoretz, John

“…Accurately modeling information diffusion within and across social media platforms has many practical applications, such as estimating the size of the audience…”
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Social Capital From Professional Engineering Organizations and the Persistence of Women and Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates by Smith, Chrystal A. S., Wao, Hesborn, Kersaint, Gladis, Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Gray-Ray, Phyllis, Puccia, Ellen, Martin, Julie P., Lee, Reginald, Skvoretz, John, MacDonald, George

“…Professional engineering organizations (PEOs) have the potential to provide women and underrepresented and minoritized (URM) students with social capital…”
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Examining how social networks influence women and under-represented minority students’ pursuit of engineering in university: when, who, and how? by Wao, Hesborn, Kersaint, Gladis, Smith, Chrystal A. S., Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Puccia, Ellen, Skvoretz, John, Martin, Julie P., Lee, Reginald, MacDonald, George

“…Background Women and under-represented minority (URM) students continue to be under-represented in STEM and earn the lowest proportion of undergraduate…”
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The Influence of Professional Engineering Organizations on Women and Underrepresented Minority Students’ Fit by Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Kersaint, Gladis, Smith, Chrystal A. S., Puccia, Ellen, Sidorova, Oxana, Cooke, Hannah, Wao, Hesborn, Martin, Julie P., Skvoretz, John, MacDonald, George, Lee, Reginald

“…Our work focuses on women and underrepresented minority (URM) students’ cultural models of engineering success (CMES) or beliefs about doing well in…”
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“Now I’m Not Afraid”: The Influence of Identity-Focused STEM Professional Organizations on the Persistence of Sexual and Gender Minority Undergraduates in STEM by Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Cooke, Hannah, Smith, Chrystal A. S., Hughes Miller, Michelle, Wao, Hesborn, Puccia, Ellen, Mayberry, Maralee, Skvoretz, John

“…In comparison to work on women and historically excluded racial/ethnic minority students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), research on…”
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Examining whether and how instructional coordination occurs within introductory undergraduate STEM courses by Couch, Brian A., Prevost, Luanna B., Stains, Marilyne, Whitt, Blake, Marcy, Ariel E., Apkarian, Naneh, Dancy, Melissa H., Henderson, Charles, Johnson, Estrella, Raker, Jeffrey R., Yik, Brandon J., Earl, Brittnee, Shadle, Susan E., Skvoretz, John, Ziker, John P.

“…Instructors’ interactions can foster knowledge sharing around teaching and the use of research-based instructional strategies (RBIS). Coordinated teaching…”
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Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change by McAlpin, Jacob D., Ziker, John P., Skvoretz, John, Couch, Brian A., Earl, Brittnee, Feola, Stephanie, Lane, A. Kelly, Mertens, Karl, Prevost, Luanna B., Shadle, Susan E., Stains, Marilyne, Lewis, Jennifer E.

“…Background Many institutional and departmentally focused change efforts have sought to improve teaching in STEM through the promotion of evidence-based…”
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Context and content of teaching conversations: exploring how to promote sharing of innovative teaching knowledge between science faculty by Lane, A. Kelly, Earl, Brittnee, Feola, Stephanie, Lewis, Jennifer E., McAlpin, Jacob D., Mertens, Karl, Shadle, Susan E., Skvoretz, John, Ziker, John P., Stains, Marilyne, Couch, Brian A., Prevost, Luanna B.

“…Background Change strategies may leverage interpersonal relationships and conversations to spread teaching innovations among science faculty. Knowledge sharing…”
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The risk of node re-identification in labeled social graphs by Horawalavithana, Sameera, Arroyo Flores, Juan, Skvoretz, John, Iamnitchi, Adriana

“…Real network datasets provide significant benefits for understanding phenomena such as information diffusion or network evolution. Yet the privacy risks raised…”
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Theoretical unification and sociological theory: An appreciation of the contributions of T.J. Fararo by Skvoretz, John

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A social network analysis of treatment discoveries in cancer by Tsalatsanis, Athanasios, Barnes, Laura, Hozo, Iztok, Skvoretz, John, Djulbegovic, Benjamin

“…Controlled clinical trials are widely considered to be the vehicle to treatment discovery in cancer that leads to significant improvements in health outcomes…”
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The Evolution of Trust and Cooperation between Strangers: A Computational Model by Macy, Michael W., Skvoretz, John

“…Social and economic exchanges often occur between strangers who cannot rely on past behavior or the prospect of future interactions to establish mutual trust…”
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Diversity, Integration, and Social Ties: Attraction versus Repulsion as Drivers of Intra- and Intergroup Relations by SKVORETZ, John

“…Interethnic and intergroup social ties are critical to knitting together increasingly diverse societies into cohesive wholes. Yet their formation faces the…”
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Advances in biased net theory: definitions, derivations, and estimations by Skvoretz, John, Fararo, Thomas J., Agneessens, Filip

“…Random and biased net theory, introduced by Rapoport and others in the 1950s, is one of the earliest approaches to the formal modeling of social networks. In…”
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