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    knowledge in the context of the real world. Abstract There has been an increasing use of the social networking sites to aid in the decision making process for making investments in the capital markets around the world by both individuals and organizations. Social networks enable a faster and easier access to information regarding capital markets to all. According to various researches, data from the social networking sites can be used to create

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    Facebook is beginning to serve a huge social purpose for most young people. The use of online social network service, such as Facebook, provides people with the ability to remain socially connected with a large network of friends. Besides satisfying its users’ need to stay connected with their social groups, Facebook has also been shown to satisfy users’ psychological needs. However, recent research also links Facebook to the less desirable outcomes, particularly social isolation and interpersonal neglect

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    The contribution of Informatics to the development of social networks and their impact on society. With the progression of technologies that are able to overcome the obstacles of time and space (e.g., airplanes, cars, the Internet), one would think that these tools would be used to gain an understanding of other cultures, meet people all over the world, maintain and strengthen familial relationships, communicate effectively with others, and help people to become more socially strong. However,

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    Minor Assessment (Risk assessment) Introduction Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have exploded in recent years and young surfers in particular have become ardent fans of this dynamic and high-tech way to connect with the wider world around them, communicating with friends and hooking up with like-minded people. But as with everything in the virtual world, parents do need to understand how their children are interacting on social networking sites, and be sure their children know

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    advantage relative to other social networking companies? Advertising accounted for 98 per cent of Facebook’s revenues in 2009, 95 per cent in 2010 and 85 per cent in 2011. Facebook offered advertisers the opportunity to segment and target its users based on their demographic information, expressed interests and social connections. Another part of the revenue was generated by its payments business, which came almost exclusively from the sale of virtual goods used in social games sold through the online

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    discussions about whether social network sites are a past craze or here to stay. In this essay, the concept of a social network site is narrower than that of social media, a social network can be defined as “ A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images” (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/social-network?q=social+network, no date). This means that the type of social network is independent from

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    Firstly, social network transmit democracy world-wide. The diffusion of the internet can effectively facilitate democracy. There is no surprise that the free information has spread by the internet, which encouraged freedom and provided the right to everybody to announce their voice. It goes without saying that internet provides a social platform that people are sharing and posting different information on their personal profiles, by delivering the messages in online, therefore, the information, images

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    Social Network Map of a Night Behavioral Health Registered Nurse As a Registered Nurse, I have the opportunity to collaborate with different people from various departments. My job does not end at bedside; it extends as far as interacting with family members, physicians, pharmacists, nursing supervisor, security officers, etc. My social network map (Figure 1) reflects my interactions with fellow employees at the hospital. This map reflects two-days time sample. My map includes a legend that explains

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    OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON ALGORITHMS On exploring Link prediction on the social networks, it lead to various studies in terms of its nature and its peculiarities. As we all know that Social Network is dynamic in nature. New links comes into picture and new relations are formed in later times. Based on the approach we assign the weight to each link from the starting node and ending node. Score (A, B) between the node A and B. The ranks between the pairs (A, B) and (X, Y) is the shortest path in G. One

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    Background and Motivation: Another form of attack on online social networks is the Social Link Disclosure based attacks, in which the goal of an attacker is to obtain knowledge of a significant fraction of the links in the network. The value of participating in an online social network for a user lies majorly in the ability to leverage the structure of the social network graph. But, knowledge of this social graph by parties other than the service provider paves the way for powerful data mining, some

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