Based on repeated expressions and the peer influence literatures, we tested the impact of elite politicians' online social networking behaviors on their partisanship behavior. We constructed a panel data for 414 Members of The 113th U.S. House of Representatives across a period of 9 months. To...

When managing major disasters, authorities may ask residents to comply with certain guidelines that change community members’ daily routines. In these situations, authorities often appeal to resilience, which refers to the ability to recover from challenges.In this study, we examine whether...

In this paper the authors proposed a database sampling framework that aims to minimize the time necessary to produce a sample database. They argue that the performance of current relational database sampling techniques that maintain the data integrity of the sample database is low and a faster...