The Challenges Facing Single Female Parents of African Background in Regional Australia

In this paper we investigate the problems experienced by single African women of refugee background being resettled in Wagga Wagga (Wagga), New South Wales, Australia. Wagga is one of the regional centres that the Australian government has earmarked for resettlement of people arriving under the refugee resettlement, better known as “humanitarian”, programs. In this exploratory qualitative research we have focused on the challenges women encountered in accessing services and the stigma of single parenthood within their cultures. Individual interviews were conducted with 10 women of varying ages and African nationalities. The research found that the key concerns were a lack of knowledge about available services, few specific and culturally relevant African services, feelings of isolation, and African community attitudes towards single women.     

Dynamics between fragmentation and unity: Identity and nonprofit relationship management in the Asian American Community

Focusing on community-based nonprofits with specific missions of serving the Asian American community, this study examined the dynamics between various layers of identity, including ethnicity and panethnicity, and identified how intercultural relationship management contributed to a sense of community and empowerment among minority communities. Interviews from both nonprofit community organizations and community members revealed the following major findings. First, Asian American community nonprofits needed to manage a myriad of identities within their community, particularly the interplay between diverse ethnic identities and the pan-Asian ethnic identity. To help manage these identities, these nonprofits adopted a dual approach using both segmented outreach and coherent advocacy. Second, these community nonprofits used intercultural relationship management to build a sense of community and efficacy, promoting outcomes such as health awareness, communicative activeness, cultural shift, political engagement, and community alliances. This study contributes to relationship management literature through introducing identity-based relationship building strategies.     

城镇化进程中的民族社区文化涵化分析--以内蒙古牧区社区为例

城镇化进程的加快必然导致传统文化的全方位变迁。对于民族社区，这意味着什么？是好是坏？本文在城镇化的背景下，以内蒙牧区为例，通过分析民族社区文化变迁的背景和动力，着重探讨牧区文化涵化的类型、性质和层次，并以此为基础对民族社区在城镇化背景下文化变迁的规律和趋向作出研判。     

Exponential random graph models for management research: A case study of executive recruitment

We introduce a recent development in the statistical analysis of relational data that offers rigorous discrimination of a variety of structural and behavioural effects of interest to management research. Exponential random graph models account for the highly interdependent nature of network data that are problematic for the predominant inferential statistical analysis used in management research. We illustrate the value of the approach with an application focused on executive recruitment by large UK firms, modelling migrations of managers among firms as a network of relationships. We find rigorous statistical support for the influences of industry origin in executive recruitment, particularly in relation to legal and accounting activities. The flexibility and sophisticated relational variables available in the models offer considerable analytical power of value to a wide range of management applications.     

A new scalable leader-community detection approach for community detection in social networks

Studying social influence in networks is crucial to understand how behavior spreads. An interesting number of theories were elaborated to analyze how innovations and trends get adopted. The traditional view assumes that a minority of members in a society possess qualities that make them exceptionally persuasive in spreading ideas to others. These exceptional individuals drive trends on behalf of the majority of ordinary people. They are loosely described as being informed, respected, and well connected. The leaders or influential are responsible for the dissemination of information and the propagation of influence. In this paper, we propose a new scalable and a deterministic approach for the detection of communities using leaders nodes named Leader-Community Detection Approach LCDA. The proposed approach has two main steps. The first step is the leaders’ retrieval. The second step is the community detection using similarity between nodes. Our algorithms provide good results compared to ground truth membership community.     

Open strategy-making with crowds and communities: Comparing Wikimedia and Creative Commons

In the wake of new digital technologies, organizations rely increasingly on contributions by external actors to innovate or even to fulfill their core tasks, including strategy-making processes. These external actors may take the form of crowds, where actors are isolated and dispersed, or of communities, where these actors are related and self-identify as members of their communities. While we know that including new actors in strategy-making may lead to tensions, we know little about how these tensions differ when either crowds or communities are concerned. Investigating this question by analyzing open strategy-making initiatives conducted by two non-profit organizations (Creative Commons and Wikimedia), we find that tensions with communities may be resolved with increasing openness in strategy-making, while crowds are better compatible with more exclusive strategy-making practices.     

新中国成立 70 年来中国特色水利水电工程移民理论的演进阶段、逻辑及取向

新中国成立 70 年来,中国特色水利水电工程移民理论先后经历了移民理论研究边缘化、原创性移民理论初始启动、移民理论专题系统建立、微观移民问题与宏观总体战略布局理论有机结合、移民理论发展优势与国际话语体系的匹配诉求五个阶段。 其理论演进逻辑可以概括为三个层次:揭示移民问题一般性规律的基础层次,阐释移民问题的理论工具层次,解决移民问题的移民方针与政策。 未来,需要进一步基于历时性、关联性以及特殊性视角深化移民问题研究,考确水利水电工程移民体制机制变迁及其引致的经济社会深度影响,探索基于系统视角的水利水电工程库区复合生态系统保护区理论的创新及其应用研究,面向大数据时代推进移民传统研究范式革新和理论概化。     

On the detection of transitive clusters in undirected networks

A network cluster is defined as a set of nodes with ‘strong’ within group ties and ‘weak’ between group ties. Most clustering methods focus on finding groups of ‘densely connected’ nodes, where the dyad (or tie between two nodes) serves as the building block for forming clusters. However, since the unweighted dyad cannot distinguish strong relationships from weak ones, it then seems reasonable to consider an alternative building block, i.e. one involving more than two nodes. In the simplest case, one can consider the triad (or three nodes), where the fully connected triad represents the basic unit of transitivity in an undirected network. In this effort we propose a clustering framework for finding highly transitive subgraphs in an undirected/unweighted network, where the fully connected triad (or triangle configuration) is used as the building block for forming clusters. We apply our methodology to four real networks with encouraging results. Monte Carlo simulation results suggest that, on average, the proposed method yields good clustering performance on synthetic benchmark graphs, relative to other popular methods.     

Examining the efficacy of an mHealth media literacy education program for sexual health promotion in older adolescents attending community college

Objective: To determine the feasibility of a mobile health (mHealth), media literacy education program, Media Aware, for improving sexual health outcomes in older adolescent community college students. Participants: 184 community college students (ages 18–19) participated in the study from April–December 2015. Methods: Eight community college campuses were randomly assigned to either the intervention or a wait-list control group. Student participants from each campus completed web-based pretest and posttest questionnaires. Intervention group students received Media Aware in between questionnaires. Results: Several intervention effects of the Media Aware program were significant, including reducing older adolescents' self-reported risky sexual behaviors; positively affecting knowledge, attitudes, normative beliefs, and intentions related to sexual health; and increasing media skepticism. Some gender differences in the findings were revealed. Conclusions: The results from this study suggest that Media Aware is a promising means of delivering comprehensive sexual health education to older adolescents attending community college.