Analysis of Social Relationships for Transferring of Farmland Rights in a Large-Scale Upland Farming Area, Hokkaido (English Translation)

The method of artificial society has provided a powerful way to study and explain how individual behaviors at micro level give rise to the emergence of global social phenomenon. It also creates the need for an appropriate representation of social structure which usually has a significant influence on human behaviors. It has been widely acknowledged that social networks are the main paradigm to describe social structure and reflect social relationships within a population. To generate social networks for a population of interest, considering physical distance and social distance among people, we propose a generation model of social networks for a large-scale artificial society based on human choice behavior theory under the principle of random utility maximization. As a premise, we first build an artificial society through constructing a synthetic population with a series of attributes in line with the statistical (census) data for Beijing. Then the generation model is applied to assign social relationships to each individual in the synthetic population. Compared with previous empirical findings, the results show that our model can reproduce the general characteristics of social networks, such as high clustering coefficient, significant community structure and small-world property. Our model can also be extended to a larger social micro-simulation as an input initial. It will facilitate to research and predict some social phenomenon or issues, for example, epidemic transition and rumor spreading.

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Secrecy Capacity Scaling of Large-Scale Networks With Social Relationships

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology ◽

10.1109/tvt.2016.2582778 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 2688-2702 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Kechen Zheng ◽

Jinbei Zhang ◽

Xiaoying Liu ◽

Luoyi Fu ◽

Xinbing Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Relationships ◽

Large Scale ◽

Secrecy Capacity ◽

Capacity Scaling ◽

Large Scale Networks

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Group-level cooperation in chimpanzees is shaped by strong social ties

Nature Communications ◽

10.1038/s41467-020-20709-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Liran Samuni ◽

Catherine Crockford ◽

Roman M. Wittig

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Social Relationship ◽

Large Scale ◽

Social Ties ◽

Social Bonds ◽

Evolution Of Cooperation ◽

Group Level ◽

Male And Female ◽

Intergroup Encounters

AbstractHumans maintain extensive social ties of varying preferences, providing a range of opportunities for beneficial cooperative exchange that may promote collective action and our unique capacity for large-scale cooperation. Similarly, non-human animals maintain differentiated social relationships that promote dyadic cooperative exchange, but their link to cooperative collective action is little known. Here, we investigate the influence of social relationship properties on male and female chimpanzee participations in a costly form of group action, intergroup encounters. We find that intergroup encounter participation increases with a greater number of other participants as well as when participants are maternal kin or social bond partners, and that these effects are independent from one another and from the likelihood to associate with certain partners. Together, strong social relationships between kin and non-kin facilitate group-level cooperation in one of our closest living relatives, suggesting that social bonds may be integral to the evolution of cooperation in our own species.

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Eco-Translatology Perspective on the English Translation of Subtitles in the Documentary Eight Hundred Years of Chu State

Humanities and Social Science Research ◽

10.30560/hssr.v2n3p5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. p5

Author(s):

Zhang Shuyue ◽

Wang Feng

Keyword(s):

Natural Selection ◽

English Translation ◽

Large Scale ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Traditional Culture ◽

Translation Studies ◽

Chinese Traditional Culture ◽

History Of ◽

Translation Methods ◽

Interdisciplinary Theory

Based on the concept of translational eco-environment, oriental ecological wisdom, and the Darwinian principle of natural selection, the concepts of eco-translatology and relevant theoretical ideas were proposed and explained by Professor Hu Gengshen from 2001 on. This interdisciplinary theory of translation studies and ecology considers translation as a translator's adaptation and selection activities, and its translation methods include the linguistic, cultural, and communication aspects. Eight Hundred Years of Chu State is a large-scale documentary about Chu culture. It systematically tells about the great history of the 800 years of Chu State, interpreting the brilliant and splendid civilization of Chu with its magnificent cultural relics, and revealing the laws worth pondering behind its ups and downs. Taking as examples the Chinese-English subtitle translations of the documentary Eight Hundred Years of Chu State, this paper aims to take the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective of eco-translatology to explore its implications for documentary translation from the linguistic, cultural, and communicative dimensions. Aiming also to improve the English translation of Chinese-made documentaries to a higher level, this paper hopes to promote the spread of Chinese traditional culture, especially Jingchu culture, and to enhance the world's understanding of China and its splendid culture.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780190631741.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mark LeBar

Keyword(s):

Sexual Harassment ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Large Scale ◽

War Crimes ◽

Small Scale ◽

Ethnic Cleansing

Concerns about justice of one sort or another are ever-present in the news and in our social relationships. Sometimes these are large-scale concerns (ethnic cleansing, war crimes, sexual harassment), while other times they are small-scale (slights, broken promises, tokens of disrespect). This volume is focused not on just institutions but instead on just individuals. This chapter surveys the contributions of the volume to thinking about what being just persons involves and how we become just.

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Mobilizing From Scratch: Large-Scale Collective Action Without Preexisting Organization in the Syrian Uprising

Comparative Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0010414020912281 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 001041402091228

Author(s):

Wendy Pearlman

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Collective Action ◽

Social Movement ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Large Scale ◽

Sequential Logic ◽

Scale Challenges ◽

Dominant Theory

Core social movement research argues that large-scale challenges to authority build upon preexisting organization and civil society resources. How do dissenters mobilize masses in repressive settings where, given curtailment of civil society, autonomous associations scarcely exist and norms discourage trust more than encourage it? Testimonials from the Syrian uprising illustrate how protest can become widespread under such conditions, yet occurs through processes different from what dominant theory expects. Activists get demonstrations off the ground by planning around awareness of their organizational deficits. Once in motion, contention propels both organization and increasing organizational sophistication. To be effective, mobilization sometimes evades or obscures established social relationships, even as it produces new forms of sociability. Bridging literatures on mass and clandestine mobilization, this research reconsiders the assumed sequential logic of movement development from organization to protest, rather than vice versa. It also shifts attention from movement antecedents toward the resourcefulness and strategy that enable mobilizing both from scratch and at grave risk.

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Application of Eugene Nida’s theory of translation to the English translation of surah Ash-Shams

TranscUlturAl A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies ◽

10.21992/tc29461 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 3-18

Author(s):

OMAR Osman JABAK

Keyword(s):

Word Order ◽

English Translation ◽

Large Scale ◽

Contrastive Analysis ◽

Source Text

The present study aimed to test the applicability of Nida’s theory of translation to an English translation of surah Ash-Shams of the Holy Qur’an. Towards that general aim, the study provided an overview of Nida’s theory of translation and the aspects whose applicability to the English translation of surah Ash-Shams would be tested. In addition, the study examined the Editor’s Preface to the English translation of the Holy Qur’an from which surah Ash-Shams was selected. A contrastive analysis was also devised and provided to help match the source text with the target text and measure the applicability of Nida’s theory of translation to both texts. The study revealed that, in general, Nida’s theory was applicable with the exception of one aspect related to word order. It is, therefore, recommended that large-scale research be conducted on the applicability of Nida’s theory to an English translation of the whole Holy Qur’an to either confirm the findings of this study or challenge them.

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Testing the Buffering Effect of Social Relationships in a Prospective Study of Disability Onset

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550620979200 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 194855062097920

Author(s):

Richard E. Lucas ◽

William J. Chopik

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Household Income ◽

Large Scale ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Panel Study ◽

Moderate Change ◽

A Prospective Study ◽

Large Decline

Social support has been proposed to be a protective factor that buffers the losses that result from the experience of negative life events. The present study uses data from a large-scale Australian panel study (the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey) to examine how life satisfaction changes following the onset of a disabling condition and then to test whether preevent or postevent social support moderates reactions to this event. Results show that the onset of a disabling condition is associated with a large decline in life satisfaction, but these changes are not moderated by preevent social support. Postevent social support does moderate change in response to the onset of a disability, but ambiguities in the interpretation of this association must be considered.

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