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Improving outcomes in outsourced product development: a joint consultant-client perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Although firms increasingly outsource front end product development activities to production suppliers or design consultants, this practice has received little scholarly attention. The few existing academic studies report high failure rates but generally
Palm, William J., Whitney, Daniel E.
core   +1 more source

The “Zhang Xuefeng Effect”: Information Intervention and the College Admission Problem in China

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Information regarding the quality of colleges and labor‐market prospects of majors plays an important role in parents' and students' school‐choice decisions, particularly when these decisions are crucially relevant to the students' long‐run career choices and life earnings.
Yutong Huo, Yun Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Setting a Good Example in Pride and Prejudice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although most readers of Pride and Prejudice think that the book centers on the romance between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, I argue that the central message is a warning about romantic fulfilment gone awry as illustrated through Lydia and Wickham.
Colmery, Joanna L
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The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
wiley   +1 more source

AN IMPROVED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE BASED ON FLAME DETECTION IN CCTVS

open access: yesICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2018
CCTV is an important part of the surveillance systems. While a person observes the screens with the naked eye in existing CCTV monitoring systems, it is possible that the flame and events are not detected opportunely due to eye fatigue and human ...
ChangYong Ri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Nature of Intellectual Vice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Vice epistemology, as Quassim Cassam understands it, is the study of the nature, identity, and significance of the epistemic vices. But what makes an intellectual vice a vice?
Madison, B. J. C.
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Major Cybersecurity Breaches: Shaping Corporate Cybersecurity Policies and Closing the Gaps

open access: yesJournal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digitalization accelerates, cybercrime has intensified in both scale and impact over the past two decades. This study aims to critically examine major cybersecurity events, assess them through the lens of routine activity theory, examine insight from three other established criminological and organizational theories, and address central ...
Laura K. Rickett, Deborah Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Quality Management in the Determination of Safety Characteristics

open access: yesChemical Engineering Transactions, 2019
Safety characteristics for a substance from different sources may differ significantly. Round robin tests have shown that in nearly all cases this is not due to negligence or carelessness by the laboratory staff.
Christoph Cesana   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward an idiographic understanding of the role of sleep‐mood dynamics in adolescents' internalizing symptoms

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Adolescence is marked by increased vulnerability to sleep disturbances and mood disorders. Understanding how day‐to‐day changes in sleep and mood are linked within the same individual is crucial for clarifying sleep's role in emerging internalizing disorders. However, the extent to which an adolescent's fluctuations in sleep predict
Konstantin Drexl   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlations between appraisals, management strategies, and psychological stress among schoolchildren with ADHD—A pilot study

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Children with Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) encounter a range of difficulties in daily life. Guided by previous studies and theories, this pilot study examined whether distinct subgroups of children with ADHD could be identified based on their appraisals of the causes of their symptoms and the strategies they use ...
Noam Ringer, Adva Eichengreen
wiley   +1 more source

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