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Wearable Sensor-Based Digital Biomarker to Estimate Chest Expansion During Sit-to-Stand Transitions – A Practical Tool to Improve Sternal Precautions in Patients Undergoing Median Sternotomy
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In: IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng (2019)
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The Social Dynamics of Language Change in Online Networks ...
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Language change is a complex social phenomenon, revealing pathways of communication and sociocultural influence. But, while language change has long been a topic of study in sociolinguistics, traditional linguistic research methods rely on circumstantial evidence, estimating the direction of change from differences between older and younger speakers. In this paper, we use a data set of several million Twitter users to track language changes in progress. First, we show that language change can be viewed as a form of social influence: we observe complex contagion for phonetic spellings and "netspeak" abbreviations (e.g., lol), but not for older dialect markers from spoken language. Next, we test whether specific types of social network connections are more influential than others, using a parametric Hawkes process model. We find that tie strength plays an important role: densely embedded social ties are significantly better conduits of linguistic influence. Geographic locality appears to play a more limited ... : This paper appears in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo16). The final publication is available at springer.com ...
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Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences; FOS Physical sciences; I.2.7; J.4; J.5; Physics and Society physics.soc-ph; Social and Information Networks cs.SI
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1609.02075
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02075
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