2,518 research outputs found
Beyond and Behind Platforms and Algorithms: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Gig Workers
No full textWhile the literature on gig work is expanding rapidly, many are the issues that need to be answered in order to fully understand the lived experiences of gig workers and illuminate the dynamics of gig work. Despite it is widely recognized that gig workers constitute an heterogenous workforce, for instance, seminal works have focused on finding similarities among gig workers across platforms, while the mechanisms behind different gig workers’ behaviors and perceptions are still widely obscure. Moreover, most of the literature focuses on what gig workers do individually on platforms, but not – or only cursorily – on how these workers manage the interplay between their online and offline activities. Specifically, comprehending how the online dimensions of work blur or integrate with offline aspects of gig workers’ lives – such as family condition or family needs, the presence of alternative, offline jobs, the cultural context of the community and country of origin – is of significant importance. This symposium addresses these issues by examining what happens behind and beyond platforms, and by presenting four papers looking at different gig workers’ experiences and different forms of interplay between online and offline aspects of gig work.
A Multi-National Ethnography of Ride-Hailing in the Global South
Author: Lindsey Cameron; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Author: Bobbi Thomason; Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Understanding African Digital Platform Workers’ Behaviours through the Lens of Omoluwabi Ethos
Author: Ayomikun Idowu; U. of Sussex Business School
Gig workers and Wellbeing: How is Algorithmic Work related to Work-Life Balance?
Author: Francesca Bellesia; Dep. of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Author: Fabiola Bertolotti; U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Author: Elisa Mattarelli; San Jose State U.
Gig work in organizations: Trends and perspectives from Human Resource Management professionals
Author: Ksenia Keplinger; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Author: Aizhan Tursunbayeva; Parthenope U. of Naples
Author: Vindhya Singh; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Author: Stefano Di Lauro; U. Mercatoru
Confronto tra due impieghi compilatori di un testo di Marciano (A proposito del recente recupero di un manoscritto di Lauro Chiazzese)
No full textMoving from some perspectives of investigation emerged during the Roman law Seminar on ‘Orizzonti della critica testuale fra tradizione e nuovi indirizzi’, held in Palermo (16 november 2018), the A. examines a ‘comparison’ between texts, respectively, of Justinian’s Institutes and Digest [I. 2.11.5 = Marc. 4 inst. D. 29.1.22], analyzed by Lauro Chiazzese in the manuscript discovered and recently published by Giuseppe Falcone [Confronti testuali. Contributo alla dottrina delle interpolazioni giustinianee, Parte speciale (Materiali), collana Fonti - 4 degli Annali del Seminario giuridico dell’Università di Palermo, Torino 2018]
"The love that made hell, paradise." Ouida re-writing the Paolo and Francesca theme in Held in Bondage
No full textThe bestselling Victorian author Ouida reveals in her novels, and, in particular, Held in Bondage, an extraordinary knowledge od Dante, by using characters and themes from the Commedia. The Paolo and Francesca theme actually constitutes part of the plot of the novel and is to be found in many of her other works, short stories and non-fiction writing
Il riuso dell’antico nel Vallo di Lauro. Lettura topografica dei dati archeologici
No full textITALIANO: Il contributo intende prendere in esame, in maniera preliminare la ricerca topografica e archeologica avviata negli ultimi anni nella Vallo di Lauro e la disamina di alcuni monumenti significativi dell’area presentando alcuni materiali di spoglio archeologico inediti o poco noti. / ENGLISH: The report intends to examine, in a preliminary way, the topographical and archaeological research started in recent years in Vallo di Lauro and the examination of some significant monuments in the area by presenting some unpublished or little known archaeological remains
HERStory Makers 2023: Francesca Fotheringham
No full textFrancesca Fotheringham is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh studying educational psychology with a focus on neurodiversity. She took part in HERStory Makers 2023.What is HERStory Makers?HERStory Makers is a social media competition for female-identifying early career researchers to share their research, their career journeys, and to inspire the next generation. Winners are selected by public vote. HERStory Makers is also part of EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night.In 2022-23, EXPLORATHON Francescasupported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X020762/1].Author contributions to contentFrancesca conceived, planned, and recorded the video content. Kirsty Ross edited the video content to insert HERStory Maker credits, added subtitles, and reduce video length to below Twitter/X limit of 2 mins and 20 secs.</p
Medicina illuminata. La Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma
No full textL'articolo presenta i codici miniati della Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma. La prima parte, del coautore, è dedicata alla Biblioteca. La seconda parte, di F. Manzari, tratta dei manoscritti miniati, costituiti da due codici con le opere di Avicenna e dal Liber fraternitatis della Confraternita dell'Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia a Roma.The article introduces the illuminated manuscripts of the Biblioteca Lancisiana in Rome. The first part of the article, by the co-author, is dedicated to the Library. The second part, by Francesca Manzari, illustrates the manuscipts; these are two manuscripts with the works of Avicenna and the Liber fraternitatis of the Confraternity of the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome
Leveraging LLMs for Knowledge Engineering from Technical Manuals: A Case Study in the Medical Prosthesis Manufacturing Domain
No full textOntologies are nowadays widely used to organize information across specific domains, being effective due to their hierarchical structure and the ability to explicitly represent relationships between concepts. Knowledge engineering, like compiling companies’ vast bodies of knowledge into these structures, however, still represents a time-consuming, largely manually performed process, esp. with significant amounts of knowledge often only recorded within unstructured text documents. Since the recently introduced Large Language Models (LLMs) excel on text summarization, this raises the question whether these could be exploited within dedicated knowledge fusion architectures to assist human knowledge engineers by automatically suggesting relevant classes, instances and relations extracted from textual corpora. We therefore propose a novel approach that leverages the taxonomic structure of a partially defined ontology to prompt LLMs for hierarchical knowledge organization. Unlike conventional methods that rely solely on static ontologies, our methodology dynamically generates prompts based on the ontology’s existing class taxonomy, prompting the LLM to generate responses that extract supplementary information from unstructured documents. It thus introduces the concept of using ontologies as scaffolds for guiding LLMs, in order to realize a mutual interplay between structured ontological knowledge and the soft fusion capabilities of LLMs. We evaluate our proposed algorithm on a real-world case study, performing a knowledge fusion task on heterogeneous technical documentation from a
medical prosthesis manufacturer
Functional properties of neurons derived from fetal mouseneurospheres are compatible with those of neuronal precursors in vivo.
No full textNeural stem cells can be propagated in culture as neurospheres, yielding neurons and glial cells upon differentiation. Although the neurosphere model is widely used, the functional properties of the neurosphere-derived neurons have been only partially characterized, and it is unclear whether repeated passaging alters their functional properties. In this study, we analyzed voltage- and transmitter-gated responses in neuron-like cells obtained by differentiating fetal mouse neurospheres at increasing passages in culture. We report that neurons fire overshooting action potentials in response to depolarizing currents up to passage 10 but loose this capability at later passages, as the density of voltage-gated Na+ and K+ currents decreases. In contrast, the immunoreactivity for the neuronal marker β-tubulin remains unaltered up to passage 21, indicating that this marker is not representative of cell function. In almost all neurons, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) evoked bicuculline-sensitive whole-cell currents, resulting from the activation of GABAA receptors, which appeared to be excitatory, insofar as the reversal potential of GABA-gated current was about −50 mV. Much smaller currents were elicited by the glutamatergic agonist AMPA, and only occasional responses to glycine were detected. In these functional aspects, neurosphere-derived neurons are similar to immature neurons differentiating in vivo. Therefore, at least for a limited number of passages in vitro, neurospheres provide an adequate model of in vivo neurogenesis
A DH-Leavened Musicological Toolbox
No full textGraduate-level training in music research methodologies tends to ignore digital humanities work and overlook the use of digital tools created in support of new forms of reading. Training instead focuses on source material in the student’s area of interest. This material includes secondary and primary (archival) resources, as well as information resources, such as: monuments of music and critical editions; indexes; bibliographies and thematic catalogs; dictionaries and encyclopedias; digital libraries of scores or editions; and databases of period-specific newspapers or journals. Graduate students taking research methods courses already have a toolbox built from their experiences as musicians and students of music, including the ability to read and interpret music notation, to understand theoretical and analytical concepts in music, as well as a command of music history, including the canon of musical works.
Digital humanities has become a major area of academic endeavor at the “interface of technological development, epistemological change and methodological concerns." An important characteristic of digital humanities research has been its interdisciplinarity. We argue that graduate training in musicology needs to include coverage of methodologies applied by digital humanists in support of new forms of reading, not only to broaden the canon of research topics in musicology, but also to build common ground with researchers of other disciplines. We propose that librarians are well positioned to provide this expertise and training
A Twitter Case Study for Assessing Digital Sound
No full textAcademic and cultural heritage institutions around the world have made measurable strides in the development of digital sound archives oriented towards research and access, but their impact on scholarship and society has been little studied. Traditionally, impact has been measured by citations; yet these are problematic metrics for non-traditional outputs like sound recordings. Social media data provide a promising avenue of investigation for measuring scholarly as well as societal impact. Twitter in particular has been shown to provide a high number of references for cultural and research outputs in all disciplines. This study analyzes Twitter references pertaining to the collections of five digital sound archives: British Library Sounds, Europeana Sounds, the Internet Archive Audio Archive, PennSound and UbuWeb. Using text analysis methods to identify high frequency events and trends, and labeling them with a rubric designed for measuring the impact of digital heritage resources, this study provides preliminary insights on user values as they relate to digital sound collections. Despite the limitations of using social media data, the evidence gathered in this case study characterizes aspects of the use of digital sound collections, and may point to future priorities for the digital preservation of sound.Peer reviewe
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