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  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director
  Department of Sociology University of Toronto
  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4
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Network Approach May Be The Answer To Understanding Financial
Contagion, Innovations-report

Excerpts: University of Arkansas economists find that a network approach
to the study of financial ¡§contagion¡¨ ¡V the transmission and impact of
financial crises ¡V may be applied to understand the current turmoil in
the U.S. banking sector and the need for a system-wide response by the
Fed. (...) Over the past decade, economists focusing on globalization and
international trade have debated why financial crises (...) spread
financial contagion, while other crises had less impact. Drawing on recent
advances in the study of networks, Kali and Reyes developed a new method
to better explain various countries¡¦ stock market performance in the wake
of financial crises. (...)

* [5] Network Approach May Be The Answer To Understanding Financial
Contagion, 2008/09/19, Innovations-report * Contributed by [6] Atin Das
http://www.innovationsreport.com/html/reports/economy_finances/network_approach_answer_understanding_financial_118539.html

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 Distributed Robustness In Cellular Networks: Insights From Synthetic
Evolved Circuits , Interface

Excerpt: Evolved natural systems are known to display some sort of
distributed robustness against the loss of individual components. Such
type of robustness is not just the result of redundancy. Instead, it seems
to be based on degeneracy, i.e. the ability of elements that are
structurally different to perform the same function or yield the same
output. Here, we explore the problem of how relevant is degeneracy in a
class of evolved digital systems formed by NAND gates, and what types of
network structures underlie the resilience of evolved designs to the
removal or loss of a given unit. (...)

* [7] Distributed Robustness In Cellular Networks: Insights From Synthetic
Evolved Circuits, J. Macia , R. V. Sole, 2008/09/16, DOI:
10.1098/rsif.2008.0236, Interface * Contributed by [8] Atin Das
http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/qg5q57l8720685g7/?p=aab18f608fc347c9933b9cc502d081a9&pi=0
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Weaving a Web of Trust , Science

Excerpts: Increasingly, people are studying social and collaborative Web
technologies for use in science. However, issues such as privacy,
confidentiality, and trust arise around the use of these technologies.
Science is crucially based on knowing provenance--who produced what, how
and where--and on the Web, trusting scientific information is becoming
more difficult for both scientists and the general public. User-generated
content, even from professionals, can be opinionated (both informed and
uninformed), inaccurate, and deceiving.

* [11] Weaving a Web of Trust, Jennifer Golbeck, 08/09/19, Science :
1640-1641.
[11] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5896/1640

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