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The Dual Nature of Trust in Participatory Sciences: An Investigation into Data Quality and Household Privacy Preferences

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice
There is a duality of trust in participatory science (citizen science) projects in which the data produced by volunteers must be trusted by the scientific community and participants must trust the scientists who lead projects.
Danielle Lin Hunter   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technology crowdfunding in Russia : alternative finance for start-ups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Purpose: Crowdfunding has proved to be an effective way for many technology start-ups worldwide to start or grow their businesses. One of the largest crowdfunding platforms in the world, Kickstarter, claims to have over 700 million dollars pledged to ...
Ilenkov, Dmitrii
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Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation in New South Wales: A Mixed‐Method Survey Exploring Workforce Capacities

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is an insidious form of child sexual abuse (CSA) that impacts Australia's most vulnerable children and young people. Reports of CSE abuses experienced by children and young people living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) have spurred urgent calls for improving responses to CSE in Australia.
Sarah Ciftci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The internationalisation of FairShares model : where agency meets structure in US and UK company law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter is a reflexive analysis of factors that are affecting the internationalisation of the FairShares Model (FSM) in the US and UK. The goal of the paper, however, is to explore how Giddens’ (1984) structuration theory offers insights into the ...
Ridley-Duff, Rory
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Bridging Entrepreneurial Finance in the EU: The New Crowd Funding Regulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Bridging finance to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a must in the sustainable economic development of any country. Access to finance is an essential determinant for business start-ups, development and growth for SMEs. In these years, crowd funding
Sasso, Lorenzo
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Synapsids and sensitivity: Broad survey of tetrapod trigeminal canal morphology supports an evolutionary trend of increasing facial tactile specialization in the mammal lineage

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The trigeminus nerve (cranial nerve V) is a large and significant conduit of sensory information from the face to the brain, with its three branches extending over the head to innervate a wide variety of integumentary sensory receptors, primarily tactile.
Juri A. Miyamae   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crowdfunding: Determinants of success and funding dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Over the past years crowdfunding emerged as an alternative funding channel for entrepreneurs. In contrast to traditional financiers (banks, venture capital firms or angel investors), crowdfunding allows individuals to fund entrepreneurs directly even ...
Crosetto, Paolo, Regner, Tobias
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Does organizational design matter? Empirical analysis of the italian equity crowdfunding market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
LAUREA MAGISTRALEL'equity crowdfunding è un metodo di raccolta di capitali comunemente utilizzato da startup e aziende in fase di avvio che si basa su una folla di investitori che offrono titoli dell'azienda in cambio di finanziamenti.
LACAVA, GIANLUCA
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Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associating cognitive abilities with naturalistic search behavior

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 665-685, April 2025.
Abstract Differences in cognitive abilities affect search behaviors, but this has mostly been observed in laboratory experiments. There is limited research on how users search for information in real‐world, naturalistic settings and how real‐world search behaviors relate to cognitive abilities.
Tung Vuong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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