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2. Listening to locals: Regional spaces in higher education in the global south.
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Chankseliani, Maia and Sopromadze, Natia
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HIGHER education , *ENTHUSIASM - Abstract
• This paper explores a contemporary trend of developing regional spaces in higher education, transcending national boundaries and promoting cross-border integration. • Using original data from the survey of 87 university international officers and interviews with seven policy-makers, this study charts the regional spaces in higher education in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). • The findings unveil a complex landscape of spatial identities marked by diversity and tensions. Various spaces, such as the European space, Eurasian Space, and commonwealth of independent States' Space, play significant roles, albeit to varying degrees across countries. • The European space is recognised as the most important space in higher education, highlighting its influence and relevance. • The study also observes the nascent development of immediate geographic spaces in central Asia and the Caucasus, where respondents express enthusiasm for collaborative efforts with neighbouring countries to advance common interests in higher education and research. One of the contemporary trends in global higher education is the emergence of regional spaces that transcend national boundaries, fostering cross-border integration and cooperation. This paper presents original data from surveys of university international officers and interviews with national policy-makers to explore regional spaces in higher education across the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). The findings unveil a complex landscape of spatial identities marked by diversity and tensions. The European space is recognised as by far the most important space in higher education. At the same time, the Eurasian/the Commonwealth of Independent States' space(s) remain to be prominent in higher education, albeit to a varying degree in different countries. The study also observes the nascent development of immediate geographic spaces in Central Asia and the Caucasus, where participants express enthusiasm for collaborative efforts with neighbouring countries to advance common interests in higher education and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Feedback driven message spreading on network.
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Nian, Fuzhong and Liu, Jinshuo
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SOCIAL networks , *SOCIAL change , *SOCIAL structure , *PSYCHOLOGICAL feedback , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *INFECTIOUS disease transmission - Abstract
• A feedback-driven model of message propagation based on the classical SIR model is proposed. • The feedback mechanism affects the structure of the social network, making the network nodes more closely connected. • The level of trust between strangers is one of the most important factors affecting the spread of messages. This paper focuses on the role of feedback mechanism on message propagation. In this paper, we study the effect of feedback on message propagation in terms of both the motivation of the communicator to propagate the message and the trust of the message recipient in the communicator, and we design a decay mechanism of motivation based on Newton's cooling law. Based on these considerations, we propose a model of message propagation based on the feedback mechanism. We verify the effect of feedback on message propagation by performing numerical simulations in the Watts-Strogatz (WS) and Barabasi-Albert (BA) networks. The simulation results show that the feedback mechanism leads to faster and more persistent message propagation and that the degree of influence on message propagation varies across different network structures. The simulation also results show that the feedback mechanism changes the structure of the social network and makes the nodes between the networks more closely connected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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