A new study has been able to shed light on the manner in which information and infectious diseases proliferate across complex networks.

It is expected that the findings will help marketers and public relations officers conduct more effective social media and social marketing campaigns.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

“The important thing is where someone is located in a network,” Nature quoted Makse as saying.

“If someone is in the core, they can spread information more efficiently. The challenge is finding the core,” he said.

That kind of information could help marketers and public relations practitioners conduct more effective social media and social marketing campaigns.

It could also help epidemiologists target resources to reduce the spread of infectious diseases.

In the study, the researchers examined four networks representing archetypical examples of social structures: members of LiveJournal.com; email contacts in the computer science department at University College London; inpatients of Swedish hospitals, and adult film actors.

The latter group was studied because it is a distinct subgroup of the acting profession whose members rarely appear in other genres, Makse explained.

The team of researchers was led by Dr. Hernan Makse of the City College of New York (CCNY) and the findings appeared in Nature Physics.

According to a survey by Gocompare.com, the average women will spend £16,000 on shoes in her entire lifetime.

It was revealed by the research that girls generally buy their first pair of shoes without their mothers at the age of 14 years and then the purchase limit is close to seven pairs a year for the remaining lifetime that sums up to 469 pairs in their whole lifetime.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Spending 34.99 pounds on an average pair makes ladies splash out 244.93 pounds each year and 16,410 pounds over 67 years.

The survey of 3,000 women concluded that the average woman has nearly about 19 pairs of shoes which includes – three pairs with heels, six pairs of flip-flops, sandals, ballet pumps or wedges, three pairs of boots and four pairs of ‘foxy-style’ shoes for night parties.

Their shoe racks also have two pairs of work shoes and another two or so ‘random’ purchases.

Four in 10 women say they judge another female by the shoes she has on.

More than half find it easy to justify a purchase to themselves but a quarter rarely tell their partner about new ones as “he wouldn’t understand”.

The Daily Express quoted Hayley Parsons, of Gocompare as saying shoes are women’s one major weakness.

Looking for timeless success and teamwork quotations? Then you have surely arrived at the right place as this blog will open the doors of motivation for you so that you can make the most out of these inspiring quotes.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. – Brian Tracy

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You’ve got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. – Steven D. Woodhull

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. – Terri Guillemets

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – Victor Hugo

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it – torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

Made on the humongous budget of 100 million pounds, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows‘ will be the final version of the Harry Potter series.

The first part of the film will be released in the United Kingdom in November and the second part will make its way out next summer.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Harry Potter is all set to bid adieu to his fans in the final version of the series-‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’, which was made on the humongous budget of 100 million pounds.

In the much-awaited penultimate part of the wizard story, fans will get to see the dark tone of all the characters.

In the blockbuster, Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe, now 20, and friends Hermione and Ron, played by Emma Watson, 20, and Rupert Grint, 21, are forced to battle like never before against Voldemort.

Based on JK Rowling’s final book in the series of seven, the film has been split into two parts.

Harry Potter fans will get to see the dark tone of all the characters in this penultimate part of the wizard story.

Dreams are ladder steps for staying ahead of the competition and reaching the point of zenith. However, we need to focus largely on them and formulate, implement actions so that they can be attained easily.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. – Jesse Owens

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. – Pete Seeger

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. – Karl Kraus

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. – Josh Billings

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. – Thomas A. Edison

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still? - J. Paul Getty

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. – Richard Nelson Bolles