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Networks such as ethnic credit associations, close-knit residential neighborhoods, "old boy' networks, and ethnically linked businesses play an important role in economic life but have been little studied by economists. These networks are often supported by cultural distinctions between insiders...
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another property which is found in many networks, the property of community structure, in which network nodes are joined … communities, built around the idea of using centrality indices to find community boundaries. We test our method on computer … generated and real-world graphs whose community structure is already known, and find that it detects this known structure with …
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discussion of some general characteristics of signaling networks, this paper explores the adaptive evolution of complexity in a …
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university of the future-a student-based complex adaptive learning community in which both feedback and transdisciplinary problem …
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Computational mechanics, an approach to structural complexity, defines a process's causal states and gives a procedure … representations. Further results relate measures of randomness and structural complexity obtained from e-machines to those from …
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. There are, however, two philosophical ideas that seem crucial in considering the very definition of complexity. The first is …
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In this paper, I formally define uncertainty, difficulty, and complexity both as measures of problems and environments …
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Theoretical studies of the stability of food webs have generally not incorporated space as a contingency affecting coexistence of species. Here, I considered the importance of spatial heterogeneity on the stability of an individual-based food web model. Individual agents diffused on a lattice of...
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complexity. As a minimum, the terms, system, complexity, and adaptation as used in this paper need an explanation. The second … section (II.) is a sketch of cultural complexity in the real world. I will use Pueblo tribal laws and other ethnographic … material as examples of that complexity. This part draws on anthropological fieldwork on the customary laws of Southwestern …
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This study analyzes the restructuring of a national economy by identifying the career pathways of its enterprises. This analysis is conducted in a setting strategically chosen as a case of rapid and profound economic transformation: the postsocialist Hungarian economy between 1988-2000. The goal...
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