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Alex Stivala, Alessandro Lomi
Analysis of the structure of biological networks often uses statistical tests to establish the over-representation of motifs, which are thought to be important building blocks of such networks, related to their biological functions. However, there is disagreement as to the statistical significance of these motifs, and…
Masami Yoshida
In pedagogical practice, gratitude is recognised not as an emotion, but as an approach to learning. This study introduced gratitude messages into the academic online communication of university students and specifically examined the community in which students shared their messages with gratitude. This study examined…
Johann Mourier, Marc Soria, Matthew Silk, Angélique Demichelis + 2 more
Animal movements are typically influenced by multiple environmental factors simultaneously and individuals vary in their response to this environmental heterogeneity. Therefore, understanding how environmental aspects, including biotic, abiotic and anthropogenic factors, influence the movements of wild animals is an…
Qiuchang (Katy) Cao, Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, Keith Warren, Mo Yee Lee
Few studies examined the social network structures within multicultural volunteer programs for low-income diverse older adults, making it unclear how diverse older adults establish social connections beyond their co-ethnic community. This study aims to identify the social network structures within a Senior Companion…
Brieuc Lehmann, Simon White
The collection of data on populations of networks is becoming increasingly common, where each data point can be seen as a realisation of a network-valued random variable. Moreover, each data point may be accompanied by some additional covariate information and one may be interested in assessing the effect of these…
Helal El-Zaatari, Fei Yu, Michael R. Kosorok, Pablo Martin Rodriguez
This study introduces a novel methodology for endogenous variable selection in Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) to enhance the analysis of social networks across various scientific disciplines. Addressing critical challenges such as ERGM degeneracy and computational complexity, our method integrates a systematic…
Fan Yin, Carter T. Butts, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani
The exponential family random graph modeling (ERGM) framework provides a highly flexible approach for the statistical analysis of networks (i.e., graphs). As ERGMs with dyadic dependence involve normalizing factors that are extremely costly to compute, practical strategies for ERGMs inference generally employ a variety…
Adam B. Rohrlach, Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Zuzana Hofmanová, Matthew Roughan + 2 more
Genetic relatedness between ancient humans can help to identify close and distant connections between groups and populations, uncovering signatures of demographic histories such as identifying mating networks or long-range migration. Critical to researchers are the characteristics that connected individuals, or groups…
Bram Mornie, Didier Colle, Pieter Audenaert, Mario Pickavet + 1 more
'Enrique Hernandez-Lemus'] Testing or benchmarking network algorithms in bioinformatics requires a diverse set of networks with realistic properties. Real networks are often supplemented by randomly generated synthetic ones, but most graph generative models do not take into account the distribution of subgraph…
Ruoyao Zhang, Gaurav Mitra, Souradeep Ghosh, Rohit V. Pappu
Multivalent biomacromolecules including multi-domain and intrinsically disordered proteins form biomolecular condensates via reversible phase transitions. Condensates are viscoelastic materials that display composition-specific rheological properties and responses to mechanical forces. Graph-based descriptions of…
Raima Carol Appaw, Matthew J Silk, Julie Rushmore, Kimberly VanderWaal + 2 more
Detecting patterns in animal social behaviour and movement is complicated by the diversity of ecological, evolutionary, environmental, and biological drivers of these behaviours such as migration, foraging, assortative mixing, socio-ecological factors, and human influence. Addressing these complexities requires a…
Nicholas Christiansen, Ioanna Sandvig, Axel Sandvig
Biological neural networks are characterized by short average path lengths, high clustering, and modular and hierarchical architectures. These complex network topologies strike a balance between local specialization and global synchronization via long-range connections, resulting in highly efficient communication.…
Fernando Alcalde Cuesta, Gustavo Guerberoff, Álvaro Lozano Rojo
In this paper, we study the absorption and fixation times for evolutionary processes on graphs, under different updating rules. While in Moran process a single neighbour is randomly chosen to be replaced, in proliferation processes other neighbours can be replaced using Bernoulli or binomial draws depending on 0 < p ≤…
Heather M. Shappell, Mark A. Kramer, Catherine J. Chu, Eric D. Kolaczyk
Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models (SAOMs) were designed in the social network setting to capture network dynamics representing a variety of influences on network change. The standard framework assumes the observed networks are free of false positive and false negative edges, which may be an unrealistic assumption. We…