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Skagerlind, Mikael.
Developing a methodology model and writing a documentation template for network analysis.
Degree: Design and Engineering, 2016, Mälardalen University
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32393
► This report focuses on finding best practices and a better methodology when performing computer network analysis and troubleshooting. When network analysis is performed, computer…
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▼ This report focuses on finding best practices and a better methodology when performing computer network analysis and troubleshooting. When network analysis is performed, computer network data packets are captured using data capturing software. The data packets can then be analysed through a user interface to reveal potential faults in the network. Network troubleshooting is focusing more on methodology when finding a fault in a network. The thesis work was performed at Cygate where they have recently identified needs for an updated network analysis methodology and a documentation template when documenting the network analysis results. Thus, the goal of this thesis has been to develop an elaborated methodology and discover best practices for network analysis and to write a documentation template for documenting network analysis work. As a part of discovering best practices and a methodology for network analysis, two laboratory tests were performed to gather results and analyse them. To avoid getting too many results but to still keep the tests within the scope of this thesis, the laboratory tests were limited to four network analysis tools and two test cases that are explained below. In the first laboratory test during three different test sequences, voice traffic (used in IP-phones and Skype etc.) is sent in the network using a computer program. In two of the test sequences other traffic is also congesting the network to disturb the sensitive voice traffic. The program used to send the voice traffic then outputs values; packet delay, jitter (variation in delay) and packet loss. Looking at these values, one can decide if the network is fit for carrying the sensitive voice traffic. In two of the test cases, satisfying results were gathered, but in one of them the results were very bad due to high packet loss. The second laboratory test focused more on methodology than gathering and analysing results. The goal of the laboratory test was to find and prove what was wrong with a slow network, which is a common fault in today’s networks due to several reasons. In this case, the network was slow due to large amounts of malicious traffic congesting the network; this was proven using different commands in the network devices and using different network analysis tools to find out what type of traffic was flowing in the network. The documentation template that was written as part of this thesis contains appealing visuals and explains some integral parts for presenting results when network analysis has been performed. The goal of the documentation template was an easy-to-use template that could be filled in with the necessary text under each section to simplify the documentation writing. The template contains five sections (headlines) that contain an explanation under it with what information is useful to have under that section. Cygate’s network consultants will use the documentation template when they are performing network analysis. For future work, the laboratory test cases could be expanded to include Quality of Service…
Subjects/Keywords: computer science; network engineering; network analysis; network analysis methodology; network troubleshooting
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Skagerlind, M. (2016). Developing a methodology model and writing a documentation template for network analysis. (Thesis). Mälardalen University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32393
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Skagerlind, Mikael. “Developing a methodology model and writing a documentation template for network analysis.” 2016. Thesis, Mälardalen University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32393.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Skagerlind, Mikael. “Developing a methodology model and writing a documentation template for network analysis.” 2016. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Skagerlind M. Developing a methodology model and writing a documentation template for network analysis. [Internet] [Thesis]. Mälardalen University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32393.
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Skagerlind M. Developing a methodology model and writing a documentation template for network analysis. [Thesis]. Mälardalen University; 2016. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32393
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University of Johannesburg
2.
Kingon, Ian Grenville Douglas.
Configuration planning on an ICL computer utilizing a stochastic network analysis package.
Degree: 2014, University of Johannesburg
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10634
► M.Sc (Computer Science.)
This dissertation details the implementation of SNAP, a stochastic network analysis package, as the basis of an in-house computer configuration planning facility.…
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▼ M.Sc (Computer Science.)
This dissertation details the implementation of SNAP, a stochastic network analysis package, as the basis of an in-house computer configuration planning facility. The work was performed at Head Office, Gold Fields of South Africa Limited, Johannesburg, South Africa (GFSA) during the period April 1980 to December 1981. SNAP was developed by the Institute of Applied Computer Science at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa. The implementation of SNAP at GFSA signalled the first in-house SNAP facility, and the first SNAP implementation on an ICL computer (although implementation had been in progress at another ICL site since 1979). Although this dissertation is very specific in nature, it is intended to provide an insight into the methodology employed in planning and implementing an in-house configuration planning facility. An overview of multiclass queueing network models and the SNAP package is provided, although no attempt is made to explain the stochastic theory of queueing networks in any detail. Attention is thereafter focussed on the various phases of the project. Problems were encountered in monitoring performance data, and these are looked at in some depth. The question of workload characterization and the difficulties of producing a satisfactory GFSA classification strategy are then presented. The model design, calibration and validation stages are explained using the GFSA model. Thereafter, use of the model for prediction purposes is illustrated by means of a number of examples. Finally, tne memory management model is discussed - main memory does not form part of the SNAP model and has to be dealt with as a separate issue.
Subjects/Keywords: Stochastic network analysis
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Kingon, I. G. D. (2014). Configuration planning on an ICL computer utilizing a stochastic network analysis package. (Thesis). University of Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10634
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kingon, Ian Grenville Douglas. “Configuration planning on an ICL computer utilizing a stochastic network analysis package.” 2014. Thesis, University of Johannesburg. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10634.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kingon, Ian Grenville Douglas. “Configuration planning on an ICL computer utilizing a stochastic network analysis package.” 2014. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kingon IGD. Configuration planning on an ICL computer utilizing a stochastic network analysis package. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10634.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kingon IGD. Configuration planning on an ICL computer utilizing a stochastic network analysis package. [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10634
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3.
Cheng, Wei.
Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies.
Degree: PhD, Biostatistics, 2015, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:674079/
► Three categories of meta-analysis methods can be used to summarize diagnostic accuracy measures (FPF, TPF) of a single test across studies: the bivariate normal model,…
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▼ Three categories of meta-
analysis methods can be used
to summarize diagnostic accuracy measures (FPF, TPF) of a single
test across studies: the bivariate normal model, the hierarchical
summary ROC (HSROC) model, and the beta-binomial model with
bivariate copulas. This thesis generalizes these methods to
network
meta-
analysis (NMA), in which the evidence
network of multiple
tests consists of single test and comparative studies of two or
more tests performed on the same subjects, with complete
cross-tables or only marginal counts. We review concepts and models
that motivate our approaches to NMA of diagnostic accuracy studies
in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, we propose a shared-parameter modeling
framework for incorporating all available information in the
networks of diagnostic accuracy studies with mixed study-types
(single-, paired-, and triplet-test studies), with and without
complete cross-tables. We then extend the bivariate normal model
and decompose the underlying true and false positive fractions for
each test on the logit scale into components that represent their
overall average across study-types for each test, study-type
specific effects to reflect inconsistency, and within-study-type
random effects. In Chapter 3, we extend the HSROC model and
decompose the study-level positivity and accuracy parameters into
test-specific effects representing overall mean positivity and
accuracy parameters for each test across study-types, study-type
specific effects to reflect inconsistency, and within-study-type
random effects to adjust for residual randomness. In Chapter 4, we
model the observed number of subjects with true and false positive
results of a test using beta-binomial marginal distributions,
decompose the underlying FPFs and TPFs similar to Chapter 2 but on
their original scale, and account for the dependence structure
using multivariate Gaussian copulas. We test the consistency among
different direct and indirect sources of evidence in the
network,
estimate the summary points and summary ROC curves and compare
tests, using the example of a
network of studies of three prenatal
ultrasounds markers for detecting Down syndrome. We summarize
conclusions in Chapter 5 and compare the three approaches discussed
in this thesis.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gatsonis, Constantine (Director), Schmid, Christopher (Director), Trikalinos, Thomas (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Network meta-analysis
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Cheng, W. (2015). Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:674079/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cheng, Wei. “Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:674079/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cheng, Wei. “Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies.” 2015. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Cheng W. Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:674079/.
Council of Science Editors:
Cheng W. Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2015. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:674079/

Università della Svizzera italiana
4.
Wang, Lei.
The effects of connectivity and culture on foreign direct
investment decisions: empirical evidence from the international
electricity industry.
Degree: 2011, Università della Svizzera italiana
URL: http://doc.rero.ch/record/28205
► With the significant growth in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the past two decades, both investment managers and policy makers are keen to know the…
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▼ With the significant growth in Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) in the past two decades, both investment managers
and policy makers are keen to know the factors determining the
location of FDI. The eclectic theory, while being the most popular
and dominant theories in international investment, failed to fully
capture the behavioral dynamics of international investment. For
instance, FDI location decisions sometimes concern the certain
social or political relationships between the home and host
countries such as “cultural ties”. And firms’ international
partners and competitors’ investment decisions impact their
decisions as well. FDI thus is thus progressively realized by
researchers being a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon and
FDI theories also gradually moved from the economics domain towards
the new interdisciplinary field of international business, which is
more concerned with firm strategy. Bandelj and Uzzi proposed a
“relational approach” and “embeddedness view” respectively to
explain the FDI location choice from a firm strategic perspective.
The common point of the two views is that they see FDI as a dyadic
relation between home and host parties, and assume that the
formation of investment relation occurs through certain ways of
relationship and connectivity. Even though FDI has been recognized
as a relational phenomenon, few studies have provided properly
quantitative results mainly due to data scarcity and
analysis tools
constraints. In this study I interpret FDI as a linkage that firms
in their home country establish with their host and aim to
understand how a FDI linkage is formed through the effects of
relationship and connectivity. The study issues are addressed in
the three chapters in the thesis by relying on Social
Network
Analysis (SNA). Cross-border M&A transaction data during the
period of 1997 - 2001 in the international electricity industry
among 38 countries are selected as data samples for the
analysis.
Analyses reported in these three papers provide empirical evidence
in support of the view that the formation of FDI linkages is
through connectivity and cultural relationship
mechanisms.
Advisors/Committee Members: Alessandro (Dir.), Erik (Codir.).
Subjects/Keywords: Social network analysis
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Wang, L. (2011). The effects of connectivity and culture on foreign direct
investment decisions: empirical evidence from the international
electricity industry. (Thesis). Università della Svizzera italiana. Retrieved from http://doc.rero.ch/record/28205
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wang, Lei. “The effects of connectivity and culture on foreign direct
investment decisions: empirical evidence from the international
electricity industry.” 2011. Thesis, Università della Svizzera italiana. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://doc.rero.ch/record/28205.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wang, Lei. “The effects of connectivity and culture on foreign direct
investment decisions: empirical evidence from the international
electricity industry.” 2011. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Wang L. The effects of connectivity and culture on foreign direct
investment decisions: empirical evidence from the international
electricity industry. [Internet] [Thesis]. Università della Svizzera italiana; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://doc.rero.ch/record/28205.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Wang L. The effects of connectivity and culture on foreign direct
investment decisions: empirical evidence from the international
electricity industry. [Thesis]. Università della Svizzera italiana; 2011. Available from: http://doc.rero.ch/record/28205
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Notre Dame
5.
Haiyan Liu.
Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation
Modeling Framework</h1>.
Degree: Psychology, 2018, University of Notre Dame
URL: https://curate.nd.edu/show/6d56zw15m8j
► A primary focus of social network analysis (SNA) is to understand actor attributes from social structures in a network. It is an interdisciplinary research…
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▼ A primary focus of social
network analysis
(SNA) is to understand actor attributes from social structures in a
network. It is an interdisciplinary research topic of statistics,
sociology, graph theories, and computer sciences. Despite its
popularity in other fields, SNA is under-utilized in psychological
and educational research. This is largely due to the lack of
easy-to-use models and user-friendly software. To fill the gap,
this dissertation proposes three models for SNA under an extended
structural equation modeling (SEM) framework. The first model is a
latent space model with a factor structure. In this model, a social
network is the outcome variable and the model intends to identify
covariates predicting a
network. As a generalization of the first
model, the second model focuses on social networks with ordinal
relations among actors. A Probit regression model is used to study
the association of an ordinal social
network and covariates. Both
models are estimated using a two-stage maximum likelihood (ML)
method. The performance of the two-stage ML method is assessed
through Monte Carlo simulation studies. Simulation results show
that the two-stage ML method can recover both model parameters and
standard errors. The third model is a mediation model with a social
network as a mediator. In this model, a latent space model is used
to extract underlying factors of a social
network, which directly
participate in the causal process between two variables. To
estimate the model, a Bayesian estimation method is used and its
performance is evaluated through a simulation study. The usefulness
of three models is demonstrated in analyzing a friendship
network
data set.
Advisors/Committee Members: Zhiyong Zhang , Research Director, Lijuan Wang, Committee Member, Ke-Hai Yuan, Committee Member, Ick Hoon Jin, Committee Member.
Subjects/Keywords: social network analysis
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Liu, H. (2018). Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation
Modeling Framework</h1>. (Thesis). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved from https://curate.nd.edu/show/6d56zw15m8j
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Liu, Haiyan. “Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation
Modeling Framework</h1>.” 2018. Thesis, University of Notre Dame. Accessed April 10, 2021.
https://curate.nd.edu/show/6d56zw15m8j.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Liu, Haiyan. “Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation
Modeling Framework</h1>.” 2018. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Liu H. Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation
Modeling Framework</h1>. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/6d56zw15m8j.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Liu H. Social Network Analysis in an Extended Structural Equation
Modeling Framework</h1>. [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2018. Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/6d56zw15m8j
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Texas A&M University
6.
Noor, Amina.
Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Statistical Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks.
Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering, 2013, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151933
► Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is of profound importance in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics. Understanding the gene-gene and gene- transcription factor (TF)…
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▼ Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is of profound importance in the field of computational
biology and bioinformatics. Understanding the gene-gene and gene- transcription factor (TF)
interactions has the potential of providing an insight into the complex biological processes
taking place in cells. High-throughput genomic and proteomic technologies have enabled the
collection of large amounts of data in order to quantify the gene expressions and mapping
DNA-protein interactions.
This dissertation investigates the problem of
network component
analysis (NCA) which estimates
the transcription factor activities (TFAs) and gene-TF interactions by making use of gene
expression and Chip-chip data. Closed-form solutions are provided for estimation of TF-gene
connectivity matrix which yields advantage over the existing state-of-the-art methods in terms
of lower computational complexity and higher consistency. We present an iterative reweighted ℓ2
norm based algorithm to infer the
network connectivity when the prior knowledge about the connections is
incomplete.
We present an NCA algorithm which has the ability to counteract the presence of outliers in the gene expression data and is therefore more robust. Closed-form solutions are derived for the estimation of TFAs and TF-gene interactions and the resulting algorithm is comparable to the fastest algorithms proposed so far with the additional advantages of robustness to outliers and higher reliability in the TFA estimation.
Finally, we look at the inference of gene regulatory networks which which essentially resumes to the estimation of only the gene-gene interactions. Gene networks are known to be sparse and therefore an inference algorithm is proposed which imposes a sparsity constraint while estimating the connectivity matrix.The online estimation lowers the computational complexity and provides superior performance in terms of accuracy and scalability.
This dissertation presents gene regulatory
network inference algorithms which provide
computationally efficient solutions in some very crucial scenarios and give advantage over the
existing algorithms and therefore provide means to give better understanding of underlying
cellular
network. Hence, it serves as a building block in the accurate estimation of gene
regulatory networks which will pave the way for
finding cures to genetic diseases.
Advisors/Committee Members: Serpedin, Erchin (advisor), Nounou, Mohamed (advisor), Yoon, Byung-Jun (committee member), Karsilayan, Aydin I (committee member), Williams, Tiffani (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: gene regulatory network; network component analysis
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Noor, A. (2013). Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Statistical Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151933
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Noor, Amina. “Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Statistical Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151933.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Noor, Amina. “Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Statistical Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks.” 2013. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Noor A. Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Statistical Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151933.
Council of Science Editors:
Noor A. Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Statistical Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151933

University of Waterloo
7.
Schunk, Adam.
An Analysis on The Network Structure of Influential Communities in Twitter.
Degree: 2019, University of Waterloo
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14476
► Over the past years online social networks have become a major target for marketing strategies, generating a need for methods to efficiently spread information through…
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▼ Over the past years online social networks have become a major target for marketing strategies, generating a need for methods to efficiently spread information through these networks. Close knit communities have developed on these platforms through groups of users connecting with like minded individuals. In this thesis we use data pulled from Twitter's API and from simulations designed to mirror the Twitter network to pursue an in depth analysis of the network structure and influence of these communities. Through this analysis we draw several conclusions. First, the influence of users in these communities is correlated to the total number of followers in their neighborhood. Second, influential communities tend to be more tightly clustered than other areas of the network. Using these observations, we develop an algorithm to detect influential communities in Twitter and show that correctly prioritizing connections yields significant gains in message visibility.
Subjects/Keywords: Network Analysis; Social Network; Twitter; Social Influence
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Schunk, A. (2019). An Analysis on The Network Structure of Influential Communities in Twitter. (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14476
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Schunk, Adam. “An Analysis on The Network Structure of Influential Communities in Twitter.” 2019. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14476.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Schunk, Adam. “An Analysis on The Network Structure of Influential Communities in Twitter.” 2019. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Schunk A. An Analysis on The Network Structure of Influential Communities in Twitter. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14476.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Schunk A. An Analysis on The Network Structure of Influential Communities in Twitter. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14476
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University of Notre Dame
8.
Yuriy Hulovatyy.
Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel
Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications</h1>.
Degree: Computer Science and Engineering, 2016, University of Notre Dame
URL: https://curate.nd.edu/show/1r66j100v5f
► Networks provide a natural and powerful way to model complex real-world systems in various domains. Studying structure of a network can help extract functional…
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▼ Networks provide a natural and powerful way
to model complex real-world systems in various domains. Studying
structure of a
network can help extract functional knowledge about
the corresponding system. As real-world networks exhibit
non-trivial organization at many scales, this extraction can be
done on different levels: from the global perspective of the whole
network to the intermediate perspective of node groups (or
communities) to the local perspective of individual nodes. With new
technological advances, the amount of available real-world
network
data in different domains rapidly increases. In addition, networks
are growing in size and complexity. For example, whereas
traditional
network data has been static, because it has become
easier to record system evolution, more of dynamic
network data is
becoming available. For these reasons, it is critical to develop
novel computational strategies for efficient extraction of
functional information from the structure of such complex (e.g.,
dynamic) networks. And this is the main focus of this dissertation.
We achieve this goal in two different ways, by: 1) answering novel
research questions via established
network approaches, and 2)
developing novel
network approaches for established research
questions. In the first context, we apply global
network analysis to answer a novel question in a novel domain in
which
network research has not been used to date – interpreting
affective physiological data. In addition, we employ local
network
analysis to study the interplay between individuals’ social
interactions and traits from a new dynamic (rather than traditional
static)
network viewpoint. In the second context,
we take a well-established local
analysis approach for static
networks to develop a novel method for the problem of link
prediction, which we use for de-noising biological networks.
Moreover, we take the same static local approach and develop new
theory for dynamic
network analysis. We demonstrate that accounting
for temporal information helps and use our method to study human
aging from biological networks. Finally, we introduce a new
approach for studying dynamic networks from the intermediate
perspective, which deals with the problem of segment community
detection. We show that our approach outperforms existing methods
in terms of both accuracy and computational
complexity.
Advisors/Committee Members: Sidney D'Mello, Committee Member, Nitesh Chawla, Committee Member, Aaron Striegel, Committee Member, Tijana Milenkovic, Research Director.
Subjects/Keywords: Complex networks; Network evolution; Network analysis
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Hulovatyy, Y. (2016). Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel
Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications</h1>. (Thesis). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved from https://curate.nd.edu/show/1r66j100v5f
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hulovatyy, Yuriy. “Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel
Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications</h1>.” 2016. Thesis, University of Notre Dame. Accessed April 10, 2021.
https://curate.nd.edu/show/1r66j100v5f.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hulovatyy, Yuriy. “Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel
Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications</h1>.” 2016. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Hulovatyy Y. Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel
Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications</h1>. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/1r66j100v5f.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Hulovatyy Y. Exploring Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: Novel
Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications</h1>. [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2016. Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/1r66j100v5f
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Melbourne
9.
Sun, Yahui.
Classical, prize-collecting and node-weighted Steiner tree problems in graphs.
Degree: 2018, University of Melbourne
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/214000
► Steiner tree problems in graphs, as a group of network optimization problems, are traditionally applied to design minimum-cost physical networks. Recently, with the eruption of…
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▼ Steiner tree problems in graphs, as a group of network optimization problems, are traditionally applied to design minimum-cost physical networks. Recently, with the eruption of big data, more and more applications of network data analysis have been explored using a Steiner tree approach. These newly explored applications present serious challenges to conventional Steiner tree techniques. Hence, more powerful Steiner tree techniques are urgently required to support the further exploration of Steiner tree problems in graphs. In this thesis, I explore three Steiner tree problems in graphs: the classical Steiner Tree Problem in Graphs, the Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree Problem, and the Node-Weighted Steiner Tree Problem.
First, I explore the classical Steiner Tree Problem in Graphs. I conduct some theoretical analyses on the currently popular Physarum-inspired algorithms to reveal their potential to compute Steiner trees. Based on these analyses, I propose two Physarum-inspired algorithms to solve the classical Steiner Tree Problem in Graphs. These two algorithms demonstrate a more competitive performance than the Genetic algorithm, Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm and Shortest Path Heuristic algorithm for both randomly generated benchmark instances and real-world Very-Large-Scale Integration instances.
Second, I explore the Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree Problem. I propose a Physarum-inspired algorithm to solve this problem in pharmaceutical networks for drug repositioning. This algorithm manifests a more competitive performance than the widely-used Goemans-Williamson algorithm for this newly explored application, where significant costs and risks of drug development can be avoided by identifying drugs with similar therapeutic effects. In addition, I propose several post-processing techniques and two fast heuristic algorithms to design large and low-cost communication networks. These post-processing techniques improve the previous best known solution of one of the largest existing benchmark instances, while these fast heuristic algorithms successfully challenge some newly generated benchmark instances that are tens of times larger than the largest existing ones.
Third, I explore the Node-Weighted Steiner Tree Problem. I propose two Physarum-inspired algorithms to solve this problem for instances with multiple compulsory terminals. These two algorithms evince a more competitive performance than the popular Genetic algorithm and Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. Furthermore, I modify two simple reduction tests and a fast heuristic algorithm to identify elements of cancer-related signaling pathways in large protein-protein interaction networks. The identification results provide us a deeper understanding towards two important cancer-related signaling pathways. Ultimately, I propose several sophisticated reduction tests, an exact algorithm and a fast heuristic algorithm for constrained relay node placement in cost-aware wireless sensor networks. This newly explored application enables…
Subjects/Keywords: Steiner tree; network science; network data analysis
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Sun, Y. (2018). Classical, prize-collecting and node-weighted Steiner tree problems in graphs. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Melbourne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11343/214000
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Sun, Yahui. “Classical, prize-collecting and node-weighted Steiner tree problems in graphs.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11343/214000.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sun, Yahui. “Classical, prize-collecting and node-weighted Steiner tree problems in graphs.” 2018. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Sun Y. Classical, prize-collecting and node-weighted Steiner tree problems in graphs. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/214000.
Council of Science Editors:
Sun Y. Classical, prize-collecting and node-weighted Steiner tree problems in graphs. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/214000

Penn State University
10.
Kim, So Hee.
POLICY ISSUE NETWORKS IN THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (SCHIP) IN ILLINOIS: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY.
Degree: 2016, Penn State University
URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/mc87pq24j
► In policy processes large numbers of actors who hold various forms of scientific and technical information, beliefs, and values interact with each other in political…
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▼ In policy processes large numbers of actors who hold various forms of scientific and technical information, beliefs, and values interact with each other in political and institutional contexts. The purpose of this study is to investigate the complex policy processes in the health policy area in Illinois, using two theoretical lenses: the policy
network theory (PNT) and the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). The PNT helps us understand the complex networked relationships among the actors of public policy processes. The ACF helps us explore more specifically the belief systems of
network actors and the roles such beliefs play in policy
network formation and policy change. Using the PNT and the ACF frameworks, in this dissertation I examined the policy
network characteristics and policy changes in the case of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in Illinois from 1997 to 2007. In my study I used AutoMap, a
network analyses tool, and ORA, a dynamic
network analysis tool. Using this combination of methods, I extracted meta-networks from the newspaper articles on the SCHIP process in Illinois and analyzed them to identify the policy networks and subnetworks (subgroups) and the values attached to these subgroups.
I first discuss the background of the Illinois SCHIP policy process and the theoretical frameworks I applied in my study (PNT and ACF). After describing and discussing the analytical tools I used (AutoMap and ORA), I present the findings on the structural characteristics of policy networks in the Illinois SCHIP policy process. Next I present the results of a series of cluster analyses, which revealed the groups of actors who formed the advocacy policy coalitions, and compare these results with the predictions of the ACF. I found that in the SCHIP Illinois case and in the period I studied the predictions of ACF were only partially confirmed: I could identify some pro- and against- policy coalitions, but their membership or the values attached to them were not consistent between 1997 and 2007. Instead, ORA identified the clusters of networks (subnetworks) of policy actors and their beliefs. I conclude that in interpreting the findings it is better to use the relatively broader term of “policy issue networks” or “policy issue coalitions,” instead of the ACF’s more specific term of “advocacy coalitions.”
My dissertation makes a contribution to the policy literature by introducing innovative methods of
network text
analysis (AutoMap) and dynamic
network analysis (ORA) to identify policy networks and subnetworks in texts. It also makes a contribution by presenting an understanding of the interplay between key policy actors and their beliefs and
network characteristics. The methods applied in this dissertation may be used in future studies on policy processes and the findings may be compared with those of future studies to gain a better understanding of policy networks.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Göktuğ Morçöl, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor, Dr. Göktuğ Morçöl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair, Dr. Bing Ran, Committee Member, Dr. Triparna B. Vasavada, Committee Member, Dr. Rhoda Joseph, Outside Member.
Subjects/Keywords: policy network theory; advocacy coalition framework; issue network; SCHIP; dynamic network analysis; network text analysis
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kim, So Hee. “POLICY ISSUE NETWORKS IN THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (SCHIP) IN ILLINOIS: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY.” 2016. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/mc87pq24j.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kim, So Hee. “POLICY ISSUE NETWORKS IN THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (SCHIP) IN ILLINOIS: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY.” 2016. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kim SH. POLICY ISSUE NETWORKS IN THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (SCHIP) IN ILLINOIS: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/mc87pq24j.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kim SH. POLICY ISSUE NETWORKS IN THE STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (SCHIP) IN ILLINOIS: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2016. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/mc87pq24j
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Anna University
11.
Karthika S.
Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;.
Degree: Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network, 2015, Anna University
URL: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/40515
► Terrorism is considered to be a violent act which in the name of newlinereligion creates fear among the innocent people Terrorist networks are newlineamorphous invisible…
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▼ Terrorism is considered to be a violent act which
in the name of newlinereligion creates fear among the innocent
people Terrorist networks are newlineamorphous invisible resilient
dispersed in other words difficult to visualize newlinetheir real
structure This community is seen as a social network with a lot of
newlinesecrecy and influence Social Network Analysis has a wide
spread range of newlineuses from semantic analysis to disrupting
clandestine organizations newlineSocial Network Analysis primarily
focuses on judging the newlineimportance or status of the actors in
the social network The actors could be newlinecharacterized based
on their capacity to either maximally influence the newlinenetwork
called as pivot tellers or maximally fragment the network called as
newlinepivot isolators The attribute of an actor depend on the
interestingness the newlineknowledge set the actor posses and the
various roles assigned to them The newlinenetwork analysis strongly
believes that actors are dependent on one another newlinebased on
the relationship they share among themselves But the strength of
newlinerelationships between actors in social networks need not be
always equal as it newlinevaries from strong familial like
relationships to weak casual relationships newline
newline
appendix p169-172, reference
p173-181.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bose S.
Subjects/Keywords: Social Network Analysis; Terrorist networks
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S, K. (2015). Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;. (Thesis). Anna University. Retrieved from http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/40515
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
S, Karthika. “Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;.” 2015. Thesis, Anna University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/40515.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
S, Karthika. “Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;.” 2015. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
S K. Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;. [Internet] [Thesis]. Anna University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/40515.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
S K. Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;. [Thesis]. Anna University; 2015. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/40515
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Alberta
12.
Chen, Jiyang.
Community Mining: Discovering Communities in Social
Networks.
Degree: PhD, Department of Computing Science, 2010, University of Alberta
URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/8p58pd049
► Much structured data of scientific interest can be represented as networks, where sets of nodes or vertices are joined together in pairs by links or…
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▼ Much structured data of scientific interest can be
represented as networks, where sets of nodes or vertices are joined
together in pairs by links or edges. Although these networks may
belong to different research areas, there is one property that many
of them do have in common: the network community structure, which
means that there exists densely connected groups of vertices, with
only sparser connections between groups. The main goal of community
mining is to discover these communities in social networks or other
similar information network environments. We face many deficiencies
in current community structure discovery methods. First, one
similarity metric is typically applied in all networks, without
considering the differences in network and application
characteristics. Second, many existing methods assume the network
information is fully available, and one node only belongs to one
cluster. However, in reality, a social network can be huge thus it
is hard to access the complete network. It is also common for
social entities to belong to multiple communities. Finally,
relations between entities are hard to understand in heterogeneous
social networks, where multiple types of relations and entities
exist. Therefore, the thesis of this research is to tackle these
community mining problems, in order to discover and evaluate
community structures in social networks from various
aspects.
Subjects/Keywords: Community Mining; Social Network Analysis
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Chen, J. (2010). Community Mining: Discovering Communities in Social
Networks. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/8p58pd049
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chen, Jiyang. “Community Mining: Discovering Communities in Social
Networks.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alberta. Accessed April 10, 2021.
https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/8p58pd049.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chen, Jiyang. “Community Mining: Discovering Communities in Social
Networks.” 2010. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Chen J. Community Mining: Discovering Communities in Social
Networks. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/8p58pd049.
Council of Science Editors:
Chen J. Community Mining: Discovering Communities in Social
Networks. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2010. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/8p58pd049

University of Alaska – Fairbanks
13.
Hum, Richard E.
Networks of change: extending Alaska-based communication networks to meet the challenges of the anthropocene
.
Degree: 2017, University of Alaska – Fairbanks
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7883
► The Anthropocene is a contested term. As I conceptualize it throughout this dissertation, the Anthropocene is defined by an increased coupling of social and environmental…
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▼ The Anthropocene is a contested term. As I conceptualize it throughout this dissertation, the Anthropocene is defined by an increased coupling of social and environmental systems at the global scale such that the by-products of human processes dominate the global stratigraphic record. Additionally, I connect the term to a worldview that sees this increased coupling as an existential threat to humanity's ability to sustain life on the planet. Awareness that the planet-wide scale of this coupling is fundamentally a new element in earth history is implicit in both understandings. How individuals and communities are impacted by this change varies greatly depending on a host of locally specific cross-scale factors. The range of scales (physical and social) that must be negotiated to manage these impacts places novel demands on the communication networks that shape human agency. Concern for how these demands are being met, and whose interests are being served in doing so, are the primary motivation for my research. My work is grounded in the communication-oriented theoretical traditions of media ecology and the more recent social-ecological system conceptualizations promoted in the study of resilience. I combine these ideas through a mixed methodology of digital ethnography and social
network analysis to explore the communication dynamics of four Alaska-based social-ecological systems. The first two examples capture communication networks that formed in response to singular, rapid change environmental events (a coastal storm and river flood). The latter two map communication networks that have formed in response to more diffuse, slower acting environmental changes (a regional webinar series and an international arctic change conference). In each example, individuals or organizations enter and exit the mapped
network(s) as they engage in the issue and specific communication channel being observed. Under these parameters a cyclic pattern of
network expansion and contraction is identified. Expansion events are heavily influenced by established relationships retained during previous contraction periods. Many organizational outreach efforts are focused on triggering and participating in expansion events, however my observations highlight the role of legacy networks in system change. I suggest that for organizations interested in fostering sustainable socialecological relationships in the Anthropocene, strategic intervention may best be accomplished through careful consideration of how communicative relationships are maintained immediately following and in between expansion events. In the final sections of my dissertation I present a process template to support organizations interested in doing so. I include a complete set of learning activities to facilitate organizational use as well as examples of how the Alaska Native Knowledge
Network is currently applying the process to meet their unique organizational needs.
Advisors/Committee Members: Koskey, Michael (committee).
Subjects/Keywords: Communication;
Alaska;
Network analysis
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. (Thesis). University of Alaska – Fairbanks. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7883
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hum, Richard E. “Networks of change: extending Alaska-based communication networks to meet the challenges of the anthropocene
.” 2017. Thesis, University of Alaska – Fairbanks. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7883.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hum, Richard E. “Networks of change: extending Alaska-based communication networks to meet the challenges of the anthropocene
.” 2017. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Hum RE. Networks of change: extending Alaska-based communication networks to meet the challenges of the anthropocene
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Alaska – Fairbanks; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7883.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Hum RE. Networks of change: extending Alaska-based communication networks to meet the challenges of the anthropocene
. [Thesis]. University of Alaska – Fairbanks; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7883
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Cornell University
14.
Havananda, Tee.
Relationships And Autopolyploid Evolution In The Medicago Sativa Complex (Alfalfa And Allies; Leguminosae).
Degree: PhD, Plant Breeding, 2013, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33950
► The Medicago sativa complex comprises several morphologically and genetically diverse diploid and autopolyploid taxa, including autotetraploid cultivated alfalfa (M. sativa subsp. sativa). Its members can…
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▼ The Medicago sativa complex comprises several morphologically and genetically diverse diploid and autopolyploid taxa, including autotetraploid cultivated alfalfa (M. sativa subsp. sativa). Its members can be divided into three morphological groups: M. sativa subsp. caerulea and subsp. sativa with blue flowers and coiled pods, subsp. falcata with yellow flowers with falcate pods, and subsp. glomerata with yellow flowers and coiled pods; each group contains both diploid and tetraploid cytotypes. Although alfalfa is well studied, closely related tetraploids and their hypothesized diploid progenitors have received much less study. Questions regarding their relationships, their controversial taxonomy, and autopolyploid evolution remain to be addressed. Genetic variation and differentiation were estimated, and phylogenetic and
network relationships were constructed based on nucleotide sequences from the mitochondrial genome for the diploid members of the complex, and from chloroplast and nuclear genomes for both the diploid and tetraploid members. Independent perspectives on the species' evolutionary history were afforded because each genome has a different inheritance pattern. Mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited, chloroplast DNA is biparentally, but largely paternally inherited, and nuclear DNA is biparentally inherited. At the diploid level, subsp. caerulea is genetically differentiated from diploid subsp. falcata for chloroplast haplotypes and nuclear alleles, although there are some shared haplotypes and alleles probably due to limited gene flow. Data from mitochondrial haplotypes, however, show no differentiation between the two diploids, which is likely due to bidirectional introgression of the mitochondrial genome. At the tetraploid level, genetic differentiation was found between subsp. sativa and tetraploid subsp. falcata in both the chloroplast and nuclear genomes. Although chloroplast data support a simple autopolyploid origin of subsp. sativa from diploid subsp. caerulea, a contrasting history involving past introgression from closely related M. prostrata is suggested for tetraploid subsp. falcata, raising questions about its autopolyploid origin. Nuclear data, however, show that tetraploid falcata most likely has originated from diploid falcata through autopolyploidy in a similar pattern to that of subsp. sativa. Despite the existence of hybrids, gene flow and introgression are limited and morphologically and genetically distinctive subspecies persist.
Advisors/Committee Members: Doyle, Jeffrey J (chair), Viands, Donald Rex (committee member), Luckow, Melissa A (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: alfalfa; autopolyploidy; network analysis
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Havananda, T. (2013). Relationships And Autopolyploid Evolution In The Medicago Sativa Complex (Alfalfa And Allies; Leguminosae). (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33950
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Havananda, Tee. “Relationships And Autopolyploid Evolution In The Medicago Sativa Complex (Alfalfa And Allies; Leguminosae).” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33950.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Havananda, Tee. “Relationships And Autopolyploid Evolution In The Medicago Sativa Complex (Alfalfa And Allies; Leguminosae).” 2013. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Havananda T. Relationships And Autopolyploid Evolution In The Medicago Sativa Complex (Alfalfa And Allies; Leguminosae). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33950.
Council of Science Editors:
Havananda T. Relationships And Autopolyploid Evolution In The Medicago Sativa Complex (Alfalfa And Allies; Leguminosae). [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33950

Cornell University
15.
Velden, Theresa.
A Methodology For Studying Field Differences In Scientific Communication - Explaining Openness And Sharing In Two Scientific Communities In The Chemical And Physical Sciences.
Degree: PhD, Information Science, 2011, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30730
► This dissertation is about differences in communication practices across scientific fields, and how to study those differences. It explores how differences in communicative behavior of…
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▼ This dissertation is about differences in communication practices across scientific fields, and how to study those differences. It explores how differences in communicative behavior of scientists can be traced back to differences in the kind of research they are doing. The focus is on one aspect of scientific communication in particular: how openly do research teams within a research specialty share scientific knowledge? This question is of particular relevance vis-` -vis a the World Wide Web's innovative potential to connect people and information worldwide. For the sciences this translates into an increased immediacy with which scientists can access and exchange scientific knowledge, as well as new ways of (re)evaluating, combining, and mining data. The methodological approach developed in this study combines qualitative (ethnographic) and quantitative (
network analytic) methods. This approach supports scaling-up nuanced local ethnographic field studies to the aggregate level of research specialties for comparison between fields. Behavioral patterns are captured and quantified through structural analyses of publication networks that are constructed from the accumulated 20-year publication output of a research specialty. In turn ethnographic observations provide validation and interpretation for the quantitative measures used and help further refine the
network analysis. Making use of this methodology a comparative study of two scientific communities in the chemical and physical sciences is conducted that identify a broad range of relevant aspects of research culture that feed into the field specific propensity for openness and sharing in scientific communities. Based on these findings an analytic framework is derived to support future comparative studies of openness and sharing in the sciences.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lagoze, Carl Jay (chair), Hilgartner, Stephen H. (committee member), Prentice, Rachel E. (committee member), Ginsparg, Paul Henry (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: ethnography; network analysis; scientific communication
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Velden, Theresa. “A Methodology For Studying Field Differences In Scientific Communication - Explaining Openness And Sharing In Two Scientific Communities In The Chemical And Physical Sciences.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30730.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Velden, Theresa. “A Methodology For Studying Field Differences In Scientific Communication - Explaining Openness And Sharing In Two Scientific Communities In The Chemical And Physical Sciences.” 2011. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Velden T. A Methodology For Studying Field Differences In Scientific Communication - Explaining Openness And Sharing In Two Scientific Communities In The Chemical And Physical Sciences. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30730.
Council of Science Editors:
Velden T. A Methodology For Studying Field Differences In Scientific Communication - Explaining Openness And Sharing In Two Scientific Communities In The Chemical And Physical Sciences. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30730

Anna University
16.
Karthika S.
Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;.
Degree: Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network, 2015, Anna University
URL: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/38915
► Terrorism is considered to be a violent act which in the name of newlinereligion creates fear among the innocent people Terrorist networks are newlineamorphous invisible…
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▼ Terrorism is considered to be a violent act which
in the name of newlinereligion creates fear among the innocent
people Terrorist networks are newlineamorphous invisible resilient
dispersed in other words difficult to visualize newlinetheir real
structure This community is seen as a social network with a lot of
newlinesecrecy and influence Social Network Analysis has a wide
spread range of newlineuses from semantic analysis to disrupting
clandestine organizations newlineSocial Network Analysis primarily
focuses on judging the newlineimportance or status of the actors in
the social network The actors could be newlinecharacterized based
on their capacity to either maximally influence the newlinenetwork
called as pivot tellers or maximally fragment the network called as
newlinepivot isolators The attribute of an actor depend on the
interestingness the newlineknowledge set the actor posses and the
various roles assigned to them The newlinenetwork analysis strongly
believes that actors are dependent on one another newlinebased on
the relationship they share among themselves But the strength of
newlinerelationships between actors in social networks need not be
always equal as it newlinevaries from strong familial like
relationships to weak casual relationships newline
newline
appendix p169-172, reference
p173-181.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bose S.
Subjects/Keywords: Social Network Analysis; Terrorist networks
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
S, Karthika. “Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;.” 2015. Thesis, Anna University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/38915.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
S, Karthika. “Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;.” 2015. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
S K. Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;. [Internet] [Thesis]. Anna University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/38915.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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S K. Effective behavioral and relational Analysis for pivot
actor tagging in Clandestine social network;. [Thesis]. Anna University; 2015. Available from: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/38915
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

McMaster University
17.
Batist, Zachary.
Obsidian Circulation Networks in Southwest Asia and Anatolia (12,000 - 5700 B.P.): A Comparative Approach.
Degree: MA, 2014, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16528
► This Master’s thesis documents and interrogates networks of regional interaction in southwest Asia and Anatolia during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods (12,000 - 5700 B.P.)…
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▼ This Master’s thesis documents and interrogates networks of regional interaction
in southwest Asia and Anatolia during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods (12,000 -
5700 B.P.) by comparing the variable use of obsidian raw material variants at 151 sites.
This represents an effort to bring together all of the obsidian sourcing data produced for
this broad archaeological setting, and evaluate it from a heterarchical approach that
highlights the distributed nature of regional interaction. Heterarchical perspectives are
applied here through the use of network analysis in order to highlight clusters of sites that
are more connected to each other than they are to others in the system, and to determine
the roles of each site in the system’s overall structure. As such, order is highlighted as a
result of the organization of data-driven ties among sites, which are unrestricted by
presumptions relating to geographical position or of pre-defined rank. The results are
compared with more established models of regional interaction in the settings of interest,
and heterarchical perspectives through network analysis are shown to complement
common understandings of broad-scale connectivity at various points in time.
Thesis
Master of Arts (MA)
Advisors/Committee Members: Carter, Tristan, Anthropology.
Subjects/Keywords: Network analysis; Obsidian circulation
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Batist, Z. (2014). Obsidian Circulation Networks in Southwest Asia and Anatolia (12,000 - 5700 B.P.): A Comparative Approach. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16528
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Batist, Zachary. “Obsidian Circulation Networks in Southwest Asia and Anatolia (12,000 - 5700 B.P.): A Comparative Approach.” 2014. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16528.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Batist, Zachary. “Obsidian Circulation Networks in Southwest Asia and Anatolia (12,000 - 5700 B.P.): A Comparative Approach.” 2014. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Batist Z. Obsidian Circulation Networks in Southwest Asia and Anatolia (12,000 - 5700 B.P.): A Comparative Approach. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16528.
Council of Science Editors:
Batist Z. Obsidian Circulation Networks in Southwest Asia and Anatolia (12,000 - 5700 B.P.): A Comparative Approach. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16528

McMaster University
18.
Rochwerg, Bram.
RESUSCITATIVE FLUIDS IN SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, NETWORK META-ANALYSIS AND PILOT STUDY PROTOCOL.
Degree: MSc, 2015, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18139
► This thesis consists of two related studies presented as three separate manuscripts (all three have been published in peer-reviewed journals) and a study protocol that…
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▼ This thesis consists of two related studies presented as three separate manuscripts (all three have been published in peer-reviewed journals) and a study protocol that has been submitted for peer-reviewed funding. The over-arching theme of this thesis was to better characterize the efficacy of different intravenous fluids used for the resuscitation of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with severe sepsis or septic shock.
We performed an extensive search including multiple databases which found 20 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that examined the effects of different intravenous fluids used in septic patients and met our a priori inclusion and exclusion criteria. In the first manuscript, we described in detail the composition of the 19 unique fluid products that were used in the various studies. This description included the fluid type, trade name, osmolality, tonicity, electrolyte content, molecular composition, pH, and manufacturer. We reviewed manufacturer’s websites, product monographs, and emailed industry representatives or study authors for more information regarding the fluids as required. The results of this study and systematic review led us to the second and third manuscripts which reported on a Bayesian network meta-analysis (NMA) of all fluid type comparisons.
Despite multiple well-done RCTs, comparative data regarding the clinical effect of different resuscitative fluids when used for sepsis was incomplete. Most RCTs used 0.9% saline (normal saline) as control fluid and very few studies compared colloids directly. The advantage of using an NMA model in this setting was the ability to include indirect data into the overall point estimates. Data was abstracted from the 14 studies which focused on adult ICU patients and analyzed examining the outcomes of mortality (manuscript2) and the use of renal replacement therapy (RRT) (manuscript #3). Certainty of evidence was evaluated for both outcomes using the GRADE approach.
Results of the analysis clearly document the harm of starch-based fluids when used in septic patients. Albumin containing fluids and crystalloids (such as normal saline and Ringer’s Lactate) are better options. Lower chloride solutions, such as Ringer’s Lactate, showed a signal towards decreased mortality and a decreased use of renal replacement therapy when compared to higher chloride fluids, such as normal saline, however this was based on indirect data, not statistically significant, and warrants direct comparison trials.
The final component of this thesis is a pilot study protocol for a study assessing the feasibility of a larger RCT examining the effect of low chloride versus high chloride fluids for resuscitation in patients with sepsis and septic shock. This protocol has been submitted as part of a peer-reviewed grant with the hopes of addressing this clinically important and timely question.
Thesis
Master of Science (MSc)
This thesis examines the ideal intravenous fluid to be given to patients with severe infection causing low blood pressure. A review of…
Advisors/Committee Members: Brozek, Jan, Guyatt, Gordon, Jaeschke, Roman, Health Research Methodology.
Subjects/Keywords: sepsis; network meta-analysis; fluids
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rochwerg, Bram. “RESUSCITATIVE FLUIDS IN SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, NETWORK META-ANALYSIS AND PILOT STUDY PROTOCOL.” 2015. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18139.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rochwerg, Bram. “RESUSCITATIVE FLUIDS IN SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, NETWORK META-ANALYSIS AND PILOT STUDY PROTOCOL.” 2015. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Rochwerg B. RESUSCITATIVE FLUIDS IN SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, NETWORK META-ANALYSIS AND PILOT STUDY PROTOCOL. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18139.
Council of Science Editors:
Rochwerg B. RESUSCITATIVE FLUIDS IN SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, NETWORK META-ANALYSIS AND PILOT STUDY PROTOCOL. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18139

University of Miami
19.
Lee, Jasper S.
Connecting the Dots: Network Analysis for Examining Psychosocial Syndemic Conditions Among High-Risk HIV-Negative Men who Have Sex with Men.
Degree: MS, Psychology (Arts and Sciences), 2018, University of Miami
URL: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/736
► Introduction: In the U.S., HIV acquisition risk is highest among men who have sex with men (MSM). Syndemics, psychosocial problems that interact with each…
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▼ Introduction: In the U.S., HIV acquisition risk is highest among men who have sex with men (MSM). Syndemics, psychosocial problems that interact with each other and poor health behavior, are additively associated with increased condomless anal sex, HIV incidence, and HIV prevalence among MSM. However, information about how these syndemics interrelate with each other is under-explored. Methods: To examine the associations between nine syndemics in 194 MSM at high risk of HIV acquisition, we examined bivariate polychoric correlations, and then compared exploratory factor analyses (EFA) to a
network analysis. Syndemics were assessed by self-report measures.
Network analyses (presented graphically) consist of variables, called nodes, and the partial associations between variables, called edges. This regularized
network employed the graphical LASSO algorithm and Extended Bayesian Information Criteria with a hyperparameter of γ=.5 to produce a graphically parsimonious yet sensitive
network. Results: Correlation analyses revealed many associations between syndemics, but this was not always the case. EFA suggested that the 1-, 2-, and 3-factor solutions were possible based on various methods for determining potential factor solutions. However, the 1-factor solution appeared to be the most appropriate for these data, in which suicidal ideation (SI), injection drug use (IDU), depression, social anxiety, intimate partner violence, substance use, and sexual compulsivity had substantial loadings (≥.30). A pattern of interconnectedness emerged in this
network analysis, which revealed that the relationships (absolute edge weights) between SI and IDU (b=.52, SD=.22, 95% CI[.17, .93]), IDU and substance use (b=.41, SD=.18, 95% CI[.18, .85]), social anxiety and SI (b=.30, SD=.36, 95% CI[.06, .77]), and depression and SI (b=.27, SD=.14, 95% CI[.05, .62]), were all significant. The most central nodes were SI, IDU, substance use, and depression. Discussion: This is the first study to compare
network analysis to EFA in syndemics. It is also one of the earliest studies to conduct a
network analysis of syndemics to describe the interrelatedness of conditions, beyond additive associations.
Network analysis may be methodologically preferable to EFA in examining the interrelatedness of syndemics because it provides measures of centrality, which can potentially indicate the conditions that drive increased HIV acquisition risk, and lends itself to a visual presentation of the interrelatedness among these intertwined problems. This study therefore has the potential to provide better understanding of the ways in which syndemics, among high-risk MSM, interrelate and, subsequently, affect health behavior.
Advisors/Committee Members: Steven A. Safren, Sierra A. Bainter, Adam W. Carrico.
Subjects/Keywords: HIV; Syndemics; Network Analysis; MSM
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Lee, Jasper S. “Connecting the Dots: Network Analysis for Examining Psychosocial Syndemic Conditions Among High-Risk HIV-Negative Men who Have Sex with Men.” 2018. Thesis, University of Miami. Accessed April 10, 2021.
https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/736.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lee, Jasper S. “Connecting the Dots: Network Analysis for Examining Psychosocial Syndemic Conditions Among High-Risk HIV-Negative Men who Have Sex with Men.” 2018. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Lee JS. Connecting the Dots: Network Analysis for Examining Psychosocial Syndemic Conditions Among High-Risk HIV-Negative Men who Have Sex with Men. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Miami; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/736.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lee JS. Connecting the Dots: Network Analysis for Examining Psychosocial Syndemic Conditions Among High-Risk HIV-Negative Men who Have Sex with Men. [Thesis]. University of Miami; 2018. Available from: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/736
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Northeastern University
20.
Williamson, Matthew H.
The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis.
Degree: PhD, Department of History, 2017, Northeastern University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413
► Studies of American revolutionaries often focus on their ideologies and politics, and while this approach is quite useful, the actions of this cohort can also…
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▼ Studies of American revolutionaries often focus on their ideologies and politics, and while this approach is quite useful, the actions of this cohort can also be understood in terms of social networks. Recent works on the founding fathers, while employing the literature of social history, are still biographies that make men the center of the narrative and often ignore larger social trends. An important figure among revolutions, John Jay, provides an opportunity to look beyond biography and instead focus on the networks in which he was engaged. This approach allows for a more expansive view of how individuals and events together shape history. This project also examines the transatlantic realities of the American Revolution, and the founding of the United States.; I argue that Jay understood the value of these networks, and used them to his advantage. This dissertation reconstructs the social networks of John Jay from his graduation from King's College in 1764 to his retirement from politics in 1801. I use formal network analysis and visualization tools to create network models, specifically egocentric networks, in order to understand the web of relationships that defined Jay's world and influenced history. The formal investigation of Jay's networks offers an opportunity to examine his manipulation of those networks.; Many of the benefits of applying social network analysis were not unexpected. People and groups that had previously been marginalized or trivialized were highlighted as integral to Jay. This work sheds light on the significance of these individuals who influenced Jay throughout his career. Another important result of this approach revealed that no singular individual was responsible for writings, ideas, and events. Using network theory, it became clear that the instructions that Alexander Hamilton gave to Jay for this peace mission were, in fact, created by a number of Federalists in private discussions before the meeting. Network theory also helped to clarify Jay's agency in the negotiations themselves.; Several limitations of applying network analysis to historical study were revealed in this research. The datasets are large and require an extensive amount of investigation. Applying network data analysis to historical research challenges the writer to integrate both into a coherent understanding of the impact of relationships and events. This approach is fairly non-traditional among academics, but the practice of integrating social network analysis into historical study is a worthy pursuit.
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution; social network analysis
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Williamson, Matthew H. “The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Northeastern University. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Williamson, Matthew H. “The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis.” 2017. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Williamson MH. The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Northeastern University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413.
Council of Science Editors:
Williamson MH. The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Northeastern University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413

Università della Svizzera italiana
21.
Emery, Cécile.
Investigating leadership emergence using longitudinal
leadership networks.
Degree: 2010, Università della Svizzera italiana
URL: http://doc.rero.ch/record/19029
► A growing body of research has examined emergent leadership within groups. Emergent leadership is defined as a process during which some individuals, over time and…
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▼ A growing body of research has examined emergent
leadership within groups. Emergent leadership is defined as a
process during which some individuals, over time and through social
interaction, are recognized and accepted as leaders by the group.
Interestingly, although there is much theorizing about how
leadership emerges and about the individual characteristics
facilitating the emergence of leaders, there is still very little
about knowledge about this particular dynamic social process, and
this is especially true if we expand our view of leadership beyond
the leader-follower dyad. To refine our understanding of leadership
emergence, I built my investigations on previous research on
Distributed Leadership which recommends the use of social
network
analysis to study how leadership may be shared among several
individuals. By envisioning leadership as a
network of perceptions,
where nodes and ties represent actors and leadership nominations
respectively, a complex and multi-level representation of
leadership is gathered. While social
network analysis has been
successfully applied to study distributed leadership using a
cross-sectional approach, leadership emergence occurs over time and
an
analysis of this phenomenon would benefit from the use of a
longitudinal perspective. I therefore collected leadership networks
over several periods of time and used SIENA, a novel multilevel
statistical procedure for longitudinal
analysis of social networks,
to examine, through three manuscripts, (i) How emergent leaders are
the result of group processes?, (ii) Do emergent leaders perceive
themselves as leaders? and (iii) Are emergent leaders emotionally
intelligence?
Advisors/Committee Members: Erik (Dir.).
Subjects/Keywords: Longitudinal social network analysis
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Emery, Cécile. “Investigating leadership emergence using longitudinal
leadership networks.” 2010. Thesis, Università della Svizzera italiana. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://doc.rero.ch/record/19029.
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Emery, Cécile. “Investigating leadership emergence using longitudinal
leadership networks.” 2010. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Emery C. Investigating leadership emergence using longitudinal
leadership networks. [Internet] [Thesis]. Università della Svizzera italiana; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://doc.rero.ch/record/19029.
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Council of Science Editors:
Emery C. Investigating leadership emergence using longitudinal
leadership networks. [Thesis]. Università della Svizzera italiana; 2010. Available from: http://doc.rero.ch/record/19029
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University of Oxford
22.
Luecken, Malte.
Application of multi-resolution partitioning of interaction networks to the study of complex disease.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Oxford
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b49187be-8203-4aa0-abbd-bff1a507ff6f
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730188
► Large-scale gene expression studies are widely used to identify genes that are differentially expressed between phenotypes relevant to disease. Often thousands of differentially expressed genes…
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▼ Large-scale gene expression studies are widely used to identify genes that are differentially expressed between phenotypes relevant to disease. Often thousands of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are found using this type of analysis, which complicates the interpretation of the data. In this project we treat DEGs as windows into the biological processes that underlie disease. In order to find these processes, we put DEGs into the context in which they perform their functions - through the interactions of their protein products. Protein-protein interactions can provide biological context to DEGs in the form of functional modules. These modules are groups of proteins that together perform cellular functions. In this thesis we have refined a functional module detection process that consists of two steps. Firstly, community detection methods are applied to protein interaction networks (PINs) to detect groups of interacting proteins, and secondly, the biological coherence of the proteins grouped together is evaluated to select communities that represent potential functional modules. Two features that are central to this work are the detection of modules at different scales of network organization, and CommWalker, a module evaluation method that we developed which is able to detect signals of poorly-studied functions. By integrating these methods into our functional module detection process, we were able to obtain a good coverage of potential functional modules. Testing for enrichment of DEGs on these functional modules can uncover biological processes that are involved in the contrasted phenotypes and merit further investigation. We have applied our pipeline to find differentially regulated functions between hypoxic and normoxic breast cancer cell lines, and between M1 and M2 macrophages. Our results generate biological hypotheses of cellular functions that are differentially regulated in the investigated phenotypes, and proteins that are involved in these functions. We were able to validate several proteins in enriched modules which did not correspond to DEGs that were input into the pipeline, which suggests our methodology can reveal new biological insight.
Subjects/Keywords: 572.8; Bioinformatics; Biological Network Analysis
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Luecken, M. (2016). Application of multi-resolution partitioning of interaction networks to the study of complex disease. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b49187be-8203-4aa0-abbd-bff1a507ff6f ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730188
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Luecken, Malte. “Application of multi-resolution partitioning of interaction networks to the study of complex disease.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b49187be-8203-4aa0-abbd-bff1a507ff6f ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730188.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Luecken, Malte. “Application of multi-resolution partitioning of interaction networks to the study of complex disease.” 2016. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Luecken M. Application of multi-resolution partitioning of interaction networks to the study of complex disease. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b49187be-8203-4aa0-abbd-bff1a507ff6f ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730188.
Council of Science Editors:
Luecken M. Application of multi-resolution partitioning of interaction networks to the study of complex disease. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2016. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b49187be-8203-4aa0-abbd-bff1a507ff6f ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730188

KTH
23.
Eriksson, Jens.
Chord and modality analysis.
Degree: Speech Communication and Technology, 2016, KTH
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189437
► The way humans listen to music and perceive its structure isautomatic. In an attempt by Friberg et al. (2011) to model thishuman perception mechanism,…
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▼ The way humans listen to music and perceive its structure isautomatic. In an attempt by Friberg et al. (2011) to model thishuman perception mechanism, a set of nine perceptual features wasselected to describe the overall properties of music. By letting atest group rate the perceptual features in a data set of musicalpieces, they discovered that the factor with most importance fordescribing the emotions happy and sad was the perceptual featuremodality. Modality in music denotes whether the key of a musicalpiece is in major or minor.This thesis aims to predict the modality in a continuous scale (0-10) from chord analysis with multiple linear regression and a NeuralNetwork (NN) in a computational model using a custom set offeatures. The model was able to predict the modality with anexplained variability of 64 % using a NN. The results clearlyindicated that the approach of using chords as features to predictmodality, is appropriate for music data sets that consisted of tonalmusic.
Computational Modelling of Perceptual Music Features
Subjects/Keywords: Chord analysis; neural network
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Eriksson, Jens. “Chord and modality analysis.” 2016. Thesis, KTH. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189437.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Eriksson, Jens. “Chord and modality analysis.” 2016. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Eriksson J. Chord and modality analysis. [Internet] [Thesis]. KTH; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189437.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Eriksson J. Chord and modality analysis. [Thesis]. KTH; 2016. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189437
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Florida
24.
Zhang, Tianduo.
State Owned Media in Hashtag Discussion Exploring State Owned Media Agenda Building Strategy on Twitter.
Degree: PhD, Mass Communication - Journalism and Communications, 2018, University of Florida
URL: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0052698
► The current study examined how state-owned media uses Twitter to build their agenda about controversial international relations issues. Three questions are examined: are state-owned media…
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▼ The current study examined how state-owned media uses Twitter to build their agenda about controversial international relations issues. Three questions are examined: are state-owned media important nodes of the discussion
network, who are interacting with state-owned media, how then interaction influences the narrative and how it influences the overall quality of discussion. The dissertation examined three issues: the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo in 2016, South China Sea territory dispute and Trans-Pacific Partnership. Study 1 used social
network analysis to study the discussion networks of all three issues and found that state-owned media being successful information disseminator but not very successful in generating engagement. Study 2 used content
analysis to study how interaction with state-owned media influences the content and quality of discussion. Result indicates that state-owned media has strong agenda-building effect on a small group of users on Twitter. The information reach is limited and the discussion involved state-owned media is more homogeneous. Implications were discussed in Chapter 5. ( en )
Advisors/Committee Members: KIOUSIS,SPIRO K (committee chair), MEN,LINJUAN (committee member), HOZIC,AIDA A (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: analysis – network – social – twitter
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Zhang, T. (2018). State Owned Media in Hashtag Discussion Exploring State Owned Media Agenda Building Strategy on Twitter. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Florida. Retrieved from https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0052698
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zhang, Tianduo. “State Owned Media in Hashtag Discussion Exploring State Owned Media Agenda Building Strategy on Twitter.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Florida. Accessed April 10, 2021.
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0052698.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhang, Tianduo. “State Owned Media in Hashtag Discussion Exploring State Owned Media Agenda Building Strategy on Twitter.” 2018. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhang T. State Owned Media in Hashtag Discussion Exploring State Owned Media Agenda Building Strategy on Twitter. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Florida; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0052698.
Council of Science Editors:
Zhang T. State Owned Media in Hashtag Discussion Exploring State Owned Media Agenda Building Strategy on Twitter. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Florida; 2018. Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0052698

University of Toronto
25.
Bhat, Mamatha.
A Network-based Analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/94059
► Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a high-fatality cancer with complex pathogenesis, often arising in the setting of various chronic liver diseases when it is too late…
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▼ Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a high-fatality cancer with complex pathogenesis, often arising in the setting of various chronic liver diseases when it is too late to offer any curative therapy. This PhD thesis is divided into two parts, the first of which was completed at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Nahum Sonenberg, and evaluated inhibition of translation downstream of mTOR. This work was performed in the context of much interest in inhibiting the mTOR pathway in HCC, given its identification as a dominant pathway in this cancer. In the first part of this thesis, I evaluated how metformin inhibits HCC growth, by decreasing translation of anti-apoptotic proteins such as Mcl-1 downstream of mTOR. In the second part of this thesis, I sought to better understand the role of the mTOR pathway in relation to other commonly dysregulated pathways in HCC. All publicly available, high-throughput gene expression data in HCC was curated at http://ophid.utoronto.ca/CDIPLiver. Clinical variables such as etiology of liver disease and liver function parameters, important to understanding clinical relevance of gene expression data, were only available in around 50% of studies. Betweenness centrality calculation was performed on genes differentially expressed between HCC and corresponding background liver tissue, and revealed Estrogen Receptor 1 (ESR1) to be most central to the HCC Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI)
network. HCC cells transfected with ESR1 and exposed to estradiol had significantly decreased proliferation and viability. Gene expression revealed that ESR1 upregulation significantly affected cellular processes such as histone methylation, transcription, and cell cycle. High expression of ESR1 in HCC tumors was found to be protective. Finally, we curated all publicly available whole exome sequencing, DNA methylation, microRNA, and proteomics data in HCC. Pathway
analysis was performed on significantly dysregulated genes, and overlapping pathways identified. The following pathways overlapped among the 5 different datasets: Epidermal Growth Factor (EGFR), B1-integrin and axon guidance proteins, suggesting pathway dependencies in HCC. A systems biology approach to HCC allowed us to elucidate the role of sex-specific differences and importance of specific pathways in HCC biology, providing biological rationale for a more targeted therapeutic approach to HCC.
Advisors/Committee Members: Jurisica, Igor, Medical Biophysics.
Subjects/Keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma; Network Analysis; 0307
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Bhat, M. (2019). A Network-based Analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/94059
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bhat, Mamatha. “A Network-based Analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/94059.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bhat, Mamatha. “A Network-based Analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.” 2019. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Bhat M. A Network-based Analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/94059.
Council of Science Editors:
Bhat M. A Network-based Analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/94059

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
26.
Pilny, Andrew Nicholas.
Social movements as networks of communication episodes.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2015, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88146
► Social movements (SMs) are common, yet complex phenomenon of study, generating eclectic and even conflicting perspectives on what actually constitutes a SM. This notion points…
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▼ Social movements (SMs) are common, yet complex phenomenon of study, generating eclectic and even conflicting perspectives on what actually constitutes a SM. This notion points towards the need of an inclusive framework that attempts to talk with rather than past conflicting perspectives. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a hybrid theoretical framework that incorporates three SM perspectives: (1) SMs as aggregates, (2) SMs as networks, and (3) SMs as symbolic interactions. I argue that a framework of SMs as networks communication episodes (CAMs) is one way to build a successful hybrid approach, arguing that SMs consist of relationships between and within actors and events. In order to put the CAM framework to use, I used multidimensional exponential random graph modeling (MERGM) to analyze four different SMS: (1) 1970s US Energy Policy Domain, (2) 1970s US Health Policy Domain, (3) 1980s Anti-Stalinist mobilization in Poland, and (4) 1980s US Labor Policy Domain. Multidimensional
network simulation was used to determine which organizing patterns correlate to instrumental and expressive theories of collective action and MERGM was used to uncover the dominant multidimensional organizing patterns in the empirical data behind each SM. Results revealed that most collective action events were organized by single organizations across all four SMs and that the Polish SM was the only movement out of the four that contain positive estimates of parameters conducive to
network theories of collective action. Based on these results, a working model of factors that are theorized to influence the CAM structure is proposed, along with an application to the Anti-Stalinist mobilization in Poland and anti-Three Mile Island nuclear power plant mobilization. Moreover, based on different patterns in the CAM framework, a typology of different modes of organizing for collective action is developed, challenging a recent and common perspective of collective action as either organized or un-organized.
Advisors/Committee Members: Poole, Marshall S. (advisor), Poole, Marshall S. (Committee Chair), Shumate, Michelle D. (committee member), Lammers, John C. (committee member), Diesner, Jana (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Social movements; network analysis; communication
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Pilny, A. N. (2015). Social movements as networks of communication episodes. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88146
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pilny, Andrew Nicholas. “Social movements as networks of communication episodes.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88146.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pilny, Andrew Nicholas. “Social movements as networks of communication episodes.” 2015. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Pilny AN. Social movements as networks of communication episodes. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88146.
Council of Science Editors:
Pilny AN. Social movements as networks of communication episodes. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88146
27.
Bakalos, Georgios.
Δίκτυα θεραπειών από τυχαιοποιημένες κλινικές μελέτες: μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση.
Degree: 2017, University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39901
► Objective: The aim of this thesis was to explore methodological aspects related to network meta-analysis, especially in oncology field. For the purposes of this analysis,…
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▼ Objective: The aim of this thesis was to explore methodological aspects related to network meta-analysis, especially in oncology field. For the purposes of this analysis, Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) was used as an example, where the combination of Cisplatin plus Etoposide (EP) is currently the standard treatment.Methods PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials weresystematically searched to identify all RCTs that compared treatments for SCLC. Then,effectiveness of the treatments relative to the combination of Cisplatin plus Etoposide,reference treatment) was estimated by performing a network of treatments analysis, using both Bayesian and frequentist approaches.Results We identified 71 articles eligible for inclusion, involving 91 different treatments. In total, 16,026 patients were included in the analysis. Frequentist analysis (direct) revealed combination of Cisplatin plus Cyclophosphamide plus Etoposide plus Epirubicin showed better response than EP for the ORR outcome, but with worse tolerability. Indirect analysis revealed that the combination of Cisplatin plus Doxorubicin plus Etoposide (plus Vincrisitine) showed better response that EP for the ORR outcome. Bayesian analysis revealed that the combination of carboplatin or cisplatin plus etoposide with granulocytecolony stimulating factor (GCSF) provides higher probability of achieving ORR compared to other treatments.Conclusions The results should be interpreted with caution because the network wasdominated by indirect comparisons. Large scale head-to-head RCTs are needed to confirm the present findings. Bayesian and frequentist approaches should be considered complementary tools in the clinical evaluator's toolkit.
Σκοπὀς: Σκοπὀς της διατριβής ήταν να διερευνήσει μεθοδολογικά ερωτήματα αναφορικά με τα δίκτυα θεραπειών, ειδικά στο πεδίο της ογκολογίας. Η διερεύνηση πραγματοποιήθηκε χρησιμοποιώντας ως μοντέλο τον μικροκυτταρικό καρκίνο του πνεύμονα (SCLC), όπου η θεραπεία εκλογής είναι ο συνδιασμός Cisplatin με Etoposide (EP).Μέθοδος: Πραγματοποιήσαμε συστηματική ανασκόπηση στις βάσεις δεδομένων PubMed, EMBASE και Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials προκειμένου να εντοπίσουμε τυχαιοποιημένες κλινικές μελέτες (RCT) που συνέκριναν θεραπείες για SCLC. Η σχετική αποτελεσματικότητα των θεραπειών ως προσ τον συνδιασμό Cisplatin με Etoposide (θεραπεία αναφοράς) πραγματοποιήθηκε με τη ανάλυση δικτύου θεραπειών με διάφορες στατιστικές μεθόδους (Bayesian και frequentist).Αποτελέσματα: Επιλέχθηκαν 71 άρθρα, που περιέγραφαν συνολικά 91 διαφορετικές θεραπείες., και συμπεριέλαβαν 16,026 ασθενεί. Η ανάλυση (direct) με Frequentist μεθόδους ανέδειξαν τον συνδιασμό Cisplatin και Cyclophosphamide και Etoposide και Epirubicin ως καλύτερο συγκριτικά με τον συνδιασμό EP ως προς την αποτελεσματικότητα (ORR outcome), αλλά μχειρότερο ως προς τις ανεπιθύμητες ενέργειες. Η indirect ανάλυση ανέδειξε τον συνδιασμό Cisplatin και Doxorubicin και Etoposide (και Vincrisitine) sως καλύτερο συγκριτικά με τον συνδιασμό EP ως προς την αποτελεσματικότητα.…
Subjects/Keywords: Δίκτυα θεραπειών; Network meta-analysis
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Bakalos, G. (2017). Δίκτυα θεραπειών από τυχαιοποιημένες κλινικές μελέτες: μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση. (Thesis). University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39901
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bakalos, Georgios. “Δίκτυα θεραπειών από τυχαιοποιημένες κλινικές μελέτες: μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση.” 2017. Thesis, University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39901.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bakalos, Georgios. “Δίκτυα θεραπειών από τυχαιοποιημένες κλινικές μελέτες: μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση.” 2017. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Bakalos G. Δίκτυα θεραπειών από τυχαιοποιημένες κλινικές μελέτες: μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39901.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Bakalos G. Δίκτυα θεραπειών από τυχαιοποιημένες κλινικές μελέτες: μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση. [Thesis]. University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39901
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Texas – Austin
28.
Madole, James Wilson.
Testing cold and hot cognitive control as moderators of a network of comorbid psychopathology symptoms in adolescence.
Degree: MA, Psychology, 2019, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5661
► Comorbidity is pervasive across psychopathological symptoms, diagnoses, and domains. Network analysis is a method for investigating symptom-level associations that underlie comorbidity, particularly through bridge symptoms…
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▼ Comorbidity is pervasive across psychopathological symptoms, diagnoses, and domains.
Network analysis is a method for investigating symptom-level associations that underlie comorbidity, particularly through bridge symptoms connecting diagnostic syndromes. We applied
network analyses of comorbidity to data from a population-based sample of adolescents (n = 849). We implemented a method for assessing nonparametric moderation of psychopathology networks to evaluate differences in
network structure across levels of intelligence and emotional control. Symptoms generally clustered by clinical diagnoses, but specific between-cluster bridge connections emerged. Internalizing symptoms demonstrated unique connections with aggression symptoms of interpersonal irritability, whereas externalizing symptoms showed more diffuse interconnections. Aggression symptoms identified as bridge nodes in the cross-sectional
network were enriched for longitudinal associations with internalizing symptoms. Cross-domain connections did not significantly vary across intelligence but were weaker at lower emotional control. Our findings highlight transdiagnostic symptom relationships that may underlie co-occurrence of clinical diagnoses or higher-order factors of psychopathology
Advisors/Committee Members: Harden, Kathryn Paige (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Psychiatric comorbidity; Network analysis
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Madole, J. W. (2019). Testing cold and hot cognitive control as moderators of a network of comorbid psychopathology symptoms in adolescence. (Masters Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5661
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Madole, James Wilson. “Testing cold and hot cognitive control as moderators of a network of comorbid psychopathology symptoms in adolescence.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5661.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Madole, James Wilson. “Testing cold and hot cognitive control as moderators of a network of comorbid psychopathology symptoms in adolescence.” 2019. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Madole JW. Testing cold and hot cognitive control as moderators of a network of comorbid psychopathology symptoms in adolescence. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5661.
Council of Science Editors:
Madole JW. Testing cold and hot cognitive control as moderators of a network of comorbid psychopathology symptoms in adolescence. [Masters Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5661

University of Texas – Austin
29.
Zhang, Lingjia.
Community detection in network analysis: a survey.
Degree: MSin Statistics, Statistics, 2016, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41634
► The existence of community structures in networks is not unusual, including in the domains of sociology, biology, and business, etc. The characteristic of the community…
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▼ The existence of community structures in networks is not unusual, including in the domains of sociology, biology, and business, etc. The characteristic of the community structure is that nodes of the same community are highly similar while on the contrary, nodes across communities present low similarity.
In academia, there is a surge in research efforts on community detection in
network analysis, especially in developing statistically sound methodologies for exploring, modeling, and interpreting these kind of structures and relationships.
This survey paper aims to provide a brief review of current applicable
statistical methodologies and approaches in a comparative manner along with metrics for evaluating graph clustering results and application using R. At the
end, we provide promising future research directions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lin, Lizhen, Ph.D. (advisor), Keitt, Timothy (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Network analysis; Community detection; Clustering
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Zhang, L. (2016). Community detection in network analysis: a survey. (Masters Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41634
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zhang, Lingjia. “Community detection in network analysis: a survey.” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41634.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhang, Lingjia. “Community detection in network analysis: a survey.” 2016. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhang L. Community detection in network analysis: a survey. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41634.
Council of Science Editors:
Zhang L. Community detection in network analysis: a survey. [Masters Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41634

University of Texas – Austin
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Chen, Chia-Ju.
Statistical analysis of identity risk of exposure and cost using the ecosystem of identity attributes.
Degree: MSin Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2019, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/7425
► Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is often called the "currency of the Internet" as identity assets are collected, shared, sold, and used for almost every transaction…
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▼ Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is often called the "currency of the Internet" as identity assets are collected, shared, sold, and used for almost every transaction on the Internet. PII is used for all types of applications from access control to credit score calculations to targeted advertising. Every market sector relies on PII to know and authenticate their customers and their employees. With so many businesses and government agencies relying on PII to make important decisions and so many people being asked to share personal data, it is critical to better understand the fundamentals of identity to protect it and responsibly use it. Previously developed comprehensive Identity Ecosystem utilizes graphs to model PII assets and their relationships and is powered by empirical data from almost 6,000 real-world identity theft and fraud news reports to populate the UT CID Identity Ecosystem. We analyze UT CID Identity Ecosystem using graph theory and report numerous novel statistics using identity asset content, structure, value, accessibility, and impact. Our work sheds light on how identity is used and paves the way for improving identity protection.
Advisors/Committee Members: Barber, K. Suzanne (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Security; Social network analysis
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Chen, C. (2019). Statistical analysis of identity risk of exposure and cost using the ecosystem of identity attributes. (Masters Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/7425
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chen, Chia-Ju. “Statistical analysis of identity risk of exposure and cost using the ecosystem of identity attributes.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed April 10, 2021.
http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/7425.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chen, Chia-Ju. “Statistical analysis of identity risk of exposure and cost using the ecosystem of identity attributes.” 2019. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Chen C. Statistical analysis of identity risk of exposure and cost using the ecosystem of identity attributes. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 10].
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/7425.
Council of Science Editors:
Chen C. Statistical analysis of identity risk of exposure and cost using the ecosystem of identity attributes. [Masters Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/7425
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