The criteria were ranked on the basis of their influence from most influential to least influential based on the following formula: Wj = frac{{{text{n}} - {text{rj}} + 1}}{{mathop sum nolimits ({text{n}} - {text{rk}} + 1)}}where: wj is normalized weight for the jth criterion, n is the number of criteria under consideration (k = 1, 2, 3…….n).
The following models were considered: (1) all local and landscape variables, (2) landscape-level variables, (3) local-scale variables, (4) individual variables that emerged as potentially influential, based on relative size of beta coefficients in the above models.
For this particular grouping of counties, the water domain was least influential, based on its low PCA coefficient (0.30).
But he has cultivated a significant and influential fan base primarily on the basis of Twitter conversations.
Critics on the left say that these congressmen can ill afford to alienate their party's sizable and influential liberal base given the potentially fierce challenges they may face next year in their heavily Republican districts.
In the last dozen years, what has frustrated Army's large, influential alumni base is not just that Army teams consistently lost, especially to Navy, but that they seemed to lack cohesion.
As personal electronic systems proliferate, a rapidly growing and influential customer base is calling for better performance from batteries.
"They feel the taste of power once again and in my view have demonstrated to the nation that lessons have yet to be learned," Yuschenko told the London Financial Times, referring to the powerful Ukrainian businessmen who form the influential power base of Yanukovich's "Regions Of Ukraine" political party.
In future research, we plan to extend our work to the influence maximization problem to select the most influential nodes based on influence-based communities.
This study proposes a network-based model with two parameters to find influential authors based on the idea that the prestige of a whole network changes when a node is removed.
