Recycling bins, garbage cans or think tanks? Three myths regarding policy analysis institutes [PDF]
The phrase 'think tank' has become ubiquitous – overworked and underspecified – in the political lexicon. It is entrenched in scholarly discussions of public policy as well as in the 'policy wonk' of journalists, lobbyists and spin-doctors. This does not
Abelson D+26 more
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Background: Global health networks serve to bring members together towards a specific objective. However, for myriad reasons, women often lack access to networks that facilitate leadership and career development.
Angelica Lopez Hernandez+6 more
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Influence of Self-presentation on Bridging Social Capital in SNSs: A Moderating Effect of Self-presentation [PDF]
Social networking sites (SNSs) by and large have deeply penetrated in the daily routine of internet users, where they can articulate their social relations and manage their profiles to present themselves.
Abro, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, Zhenfang, Li
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Neighborhood-based Bridge Node Centrality Tuple for Preferential Vaccination of Nodes [PDF]
We investigate the use of a recently proposed centrality tuple called the Neighborhood-based Bridge Node Centrality (NBNC) tuple to choose nodes for preferential vaccination so that such vaccinated nodes could provide herd immunity and reduce the spreading rate of infections in a complex real-world network.
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Strategies for mlearning integration : evaluating a case study of staging and scaffolding mlearning integration across a three-year bachelor’s degree [PDF]
This paper outlines the third iteration of integrating mobile web 2.0 within a Bachelors level course. An analysis and comparison of the impact of mobile web 2.0 across all three years of the 2009 course enables the development of implementation ...
Bateman, Roger, Cochrane, Thom
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Community-based tourism and networking: Viscri, Romania [PDF]
This paper raises questions concerning the complexity of the term “community” when dealing with community-based tourism initiatives. It highlights the difficulty of translating into practice the paradigm of “community-based tourism”. Through a case study
Corsale, Andrea, Iorio, Monica
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Strategic scaling initiatives and client networking dynamics for small and medium-sized enterprises growth: a comprehensive case study analysis [PDF]
Purpose – The research investigates scaling and client networking in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), using ABCD, an Indonesian telecom tower provider, as a case study.
Ioannis Christodoulou+4 more
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Network formations to bridge or extend wireless sensor networks [PDF]
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) that require bridging to other networks or extending sensor coverage must keep high link availability to reduce energy wasted on error control. This paper first details the relationship of individual link probability of availability to E b /N o and to upper protocol layers.
Severinghaus, Robert+2 more
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Latent Network Summarization [PDF]
Motivated by the computational and storage challenges that dense embeddings pose, we introduce the problem of latent network summarization that aims to learn a compact, latent representation of the graph structure with dimensionality that is independent of the input graph size (i.e., #nodes and #edges), while retaining the ability to derive node ...
Sungchul Kim+5 more
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The call for adaptive governance approaches to guide the sustainable transformation of urban water management systems is growing amongst scholars and policy professionals.
Tahmina Yasmin+4 more
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