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LawConnect : technology and design of a legal assistance platform for ethnic minorities
No full textPotential legal issues occur in the normal activities of day-to-day lives. However, the frequency of encountering such issues and that of seeking professional opinion to solve it are highly imbalanced due to the lack of entry point and low legal capability of people. This thesis introduces LawConnect as a solution to bridge the gap between the underserved ethnic minority (EM) community and the justice system in Hong Kong. It is a mobile application to educate users on legal entitlements and legal assistance options, with an e-form generator for efficient legal aid application of lay persons. Comparing to the currently flawed practice, LawConnect enables self-empowerment on legal matters and promotes equal justice within reach. Created to serve the EM community, the relevant design and technical development, along with the business potential of the platform are investigated in the thesis.</p
Can demonetization reduce the creation of and interaction with controversial content? : evidence from YouTube
No full textAd revenues provide strong monetary incentives to content creators, but some of their content is controversial and may produce harmful side effects. This paper investigates whether platforms can use demonetization as a strategy to mitigate the creation of and interaction with controversial content. Firstly, we examine if demonetization discourages the creation of controversial content by diminishing the financial incentives associated with ad revenues. Secondly, we examine if demonetization reduces users' interactions with controversial content. For identification we employ a Difference-in-Differences framework, taking advantage of YouTube's demonetization of controversial content as a natural shock. We find that affected creators significantly decrease their content creation, specifically controversial content. On the other hand, users significantly reduce their interactions with controversial content, but increase their interactions with uncontroversial content more than proportionally. We find no evidence supporting the claims that demonetization leads to increasing creator or user churn rates. These findings suggest that demonetization has the potential to moderate content creators' and users' behaviors effectively without incurring significant costs to platform owners. Keywords: Platform Governance; Complementors; Media Platforms.</p
The industrial application and commercialization of autonomous gecko-inspired surface
No full textThis paper introduces a new grabbing solution, the gripper using the autonomous gecko-inspired surface, with its industrial application and commercial development plan, illustrating its superior force working mechanism by comparing with the current grabbing solutions and industrial standards. The business part includes the worldwide competition landscape and a detailed product developing strategic analysis.</p
Bridging the innovation gap through funding : the case of MIT Deshpande Center
No full textThesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-59).The idea of gap-funding program, in which academic scientists are given research funding for developing proof-of-concept and prototype, has recently attracted attention as a policy measure of commercializing academic science. While the earliest programs of its kind were initiated about a decade ago, we still lack empirical evidence on its effectiveness. Using the detailed dataset of the gap-funding program at MIT, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, I observe two mechanisms that gap-funding program can facilitate academic commercialization. First, by providing research funding that allows academic freedom of problem selection and mode of disclosure, gap-funding program attracts applications from junior faculty members with commercialization interests. Second, providing research funding for prototype development and networking opportunities with industry practitioners increases the likelihood that an academic invention results in start-up founding. Moreover, its positive impact is larger for inventions without intellectual property rights protection, partly because of the reduced level of uncertainty after prototype development. However, awarding gap-funding does not increase the likelihood of technology licensing to incumbent firms. Together, I argue that gap-funding program can be a useful policy toolkit for regional economic development by fostering academic entrepreneurship.by Ohchan Kwon.S.M. in Technology and Polic
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Essays on Entrepreneurship and Human Capital in Knowledge-Intensive Industries
No full textManaging human capital is one of the most critical activities for any organizations in knowledge-intensive industries. Increasingly, it requires detailed understandings on the interplay between individuals and environments as these individuals respond to various opportunities and challenges that arise outside the organizational boundary. My dissertation examines how individual innovators and knowledge workers from three different organizations respond to rapidly changing incentives, opportunities, and contexts. The first chapter focuses on user-innovators in an online community and how they respond to commercial opportunities by pursuing entrepreneurship. The second chapter studies knowledge workers in an IT company and investigates how distance from hometown affect their productivity and learning over time. The final chapter analyzes workers in a rental car company to understand how they allocate efforts in different tasks in response to increased career concerns from potential corporate restructuring.TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS MANAGEMEN
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
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