The individual ranks of each network member must be simultaneously estimated based on both direct observation of dominance behavior and inferred dominance due to the assumed transitivity.
Since many of these pairs have no observed direct interactions, the dominance potential parameters must be inferred from the transitivity relationships among the parameters.
Unfortunately, as far as we are aware, direct evidence for dominance of either mechanism is currently lacking.
Although the KT boundary marks the dawn of the age of mammals in terms of global dominance, direct paleontological estimates of long-term population size changes are lacking and will likely be difficult to achieve.
This robotization of users, largely directed by the dominance of metrics, is, of course, endemic to social media as a whole.
Half a dozen attacks – none of them avowed – have been in defence of Israel's strategic dominance, not direct intervention in the war.
JOHANNESBURG — A group of five emerging world economic powers met in Africa for the first time Tuesday, gathering in South Africa for a summit meeting at which they plan to announce the creation of a new development bank, a direct challenge to the dominance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Competition from budget airlines is the biggest manifestation of this change, while creeping international de-regulation and new planes, big and small, that can fly longer distances direct are undermining the dominance of the traditional hub-and-spoke network in many regions.
The move is a direct challenge to the dominance of the BlackBerry, made by Canadian firm Research in Motion, in the growing mobile e-mail market (estimated at 9m users by the end of 2006).Going gaga for GoogleGoogle overtook Time Warner to become the world's most valuable media company.
In George Orwell's "1984," that novel of totalitarian politics whose great mistake was to emphasize the villainy of society's masters while playing down the mischief of the masses, the goal of communications technology was brutal and direct: to ensure the dominance of the state.
