Many influential participants said that the financial crisis, rescue and search for solutions that the world had experienced in the last three years were without precedent.
First, I.B.M.'s case: By mapping the most influential participants in online conversations about shoes, the company was then able to eavesdrop on a dozen key bloggers.
The White House took the unusual step of publicizing Mr. Obama's attendance two weeks in advance, an administration official said, to attract other influential participants and to shine a spotlight on the precarious situation.
Morselli and Giguere (2006) add that drug distribution networks include influential participants who appear to work in legitimate occupational settings; of these individuals, those involved in financial activities are critical seeds, introducing others to the network.
Most channels have moderators and a small circle of influential participants holds sway, but never too much, members say.
All the while the influential participants only dare to speak that truth in the hallways of the Herzliya Conference.
The town developed into a notable centre of literary, musical, artistic and theatrical activity; and its leading citizens – particularly the members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham – became influential participants in the circulation of philosophical and scientific ideas among Europe's intellectual elite.
The propensity score matching yielded two well balanced treatment groups and removed potentially influential participants with no comparable controls.
Metrics-based approaches, as the one adopted in this study, generate results by pooling individual rankings, which averts the predominance of few most influential participants.
It is possible to imagine, as did our influential participants themselves, that a better balance between the practices of research associated with each of the two poles and the introduction of new disciplines could improve the quality of research.
