76 research outputs found
A comunicação da Embrapa Trigo em um dia de campo de inverno 2013.
Editores tĂ©cnicos: Joseani Mesquita Antunes, Ana LĂdia Variani Bonato, MĂĄrcia Barrocas Moreira Pimentel
Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia
We present an analysis of the statistical properties and growth of the free
on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. By describing topics by vertices and hyperlinks
between them as edges, we can represent this encyclopedia as a directed graph.
The topological properties of this graph are in close analogy with that of the
World Wide Web, despite the very different growth mechanism. In particular we
measure a scale--invariant distribution of the in-- and out-- degree and we are
able to reproduce these features by means of a simple statistical model. As a
major consequence, Wikipedia growth can be described by local rules such as the
preferential attachment mechanism, though users can act globally on the
network.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, revte
Sampling properties of directed networks
For many real-world networks only a small "sampled" version of the original
network may be investigated; those results are then used to draw conclusions
about the actual system. Variants of breadth-first search (BFS) sampling, which
are based on epidemic processes, are widely used. Although it is well
established that BFS sampling fails, in most cases, to capture the
IN-component(s) of directed networks, a description of the effects of BFS
sampling on other topological properties are all but absent from the
literature. To systematically study the effects of sampling biases on directed
networks, we compare BFS sampling to random sampling on complete large-scale
directed networks. We present new results and a thorough analysis of the
topological properties of seven different complete directed networks (prior to
sampling), including three versions of Wikipedia, three different sources of
sampled World Wide Web data, and an Internet-based social network. We detail
the differences that sampling method and coverage can make to the structural
properties of sampled versions of these seven networks. Most notably, we find
that sampling method and coverage affect both the bow-tie structure, as well as
the number and structure of strongly connected components in sampled networks.
In addition, at low sampling coverage (i.e. less than 40%), the values of
average degree, variance of out-degree, degree auto-correlation, and link
reciprocity are overestimated by 30% or more in BFS-sampled networks, and only
attain values within 10% of the corresponding values in the complete networks
when sampling coverage is in excess of 65%. These results may cause us to
rethink what we know about the structure, function, and evolution of real-world
directed networks.Comment: 21 pages, 11 figure
Atividades da Embrapa Trigo e Embrapa TransferĂȘncia de Tecnologia para a cultura da soja no sul do Brasil na safra de 2008/09.
Atividades da Embrapa na transferĂȘncia de tecnologia para as culturas do trigo e triticale na safra de 2008/09.
Atividades da Embrapa na transferĂȘncia de tecnologia para a cultura do trigo na safra de 2009.
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Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia
In this work we study the dynamical features of editorial wars in Wikipedia
(WP). Based on our previously established algorithm, we build up samples of
controversial and peaceful articles and analyze the temporal characteristics of
the activity in these samples. On short time scales, we show that there is a
clear correspondence between conflict and burstiness of activity patterns, and
that memory effects play an important role in controversies. On long time
scales, we identify three distinct developmental patterns for the overall
behavior of the articles. We are able to distinguish cases eventually leading
to consensus from those cases where a compromise is far from achievable.
Finally, we analyze discussion networks and conclude that edit wars are mainly
fought by few editors only.Comment: Supporting information adde
Atividades de transferĂȘncia de tecnologia da Embrapa Trigo para a cultura da soja no sul do Brasil na safra 2009/10.
bitstream/item/128738/1/ID41916-LVdocumentos102-p78-84.pd
Estimativa das temperaturas mĂĄximas e mĂnimas do ar para a regiĂŁo do Circuito das Frutas, SP
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