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Reliable Diversity-Based Spatial Crowdsourcing by Moving Workers

open access: yes, 2015
With the rapid development of mobile devices and the crowdsourcig platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community, specifically, spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending a location-based request to workers ...
Chen, Lei   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Navigating the Rapids: How Non‐Governmental Organization Managers Develop Strategic Adaptation to Repressive Political Environments

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes?
Charles Kaye‐Essien   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Search Rank Fraud De-Anonymization in Online Systems

open access: yes, 2018
We introduce the fraud de-anonymization problem, that goes beyond fraud detection, to unmask the human masterminds responsible for posting search rank fraud in online systems.
Akoglu Leman   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Bioversity International is implementing a Dutch-supported project entitled: Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region.
Fadda, Carlo   +6 more
core  

Leveraging machine learning and citizen science data to describe flowering phenology across South Africa

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Recent shifts in flowering times are an index of, and a response to, human driven climate change. However, most information on these flowering changes is heavily skewed to the northern hemisphere. This imbalance limits our understanding of how climate change is affecting ecosystems, including the mismatches of flowering times between species, increased
Ross D. Stewart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crowd-sourcing (who, why and what) [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Crowd Science, 2018
Purpose - There is growing interest in innovative online problem-solving models such as crowdsourcing to serve individuals, firms and the society as a whole.
Henry Oluchukwu Ikediego   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crowdsourcing accurately and robustly predicts Supreme Court decisions

open access: yes, 2017
Scholars have increasingly investigated "crowdsourcing" as an alternative to expert-based judgment or purely data-driven approaches to predicting the future.
Blackman, Josh   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Unravelling indoor temperature response to summer heat through long‐term crowdsourced observations in Dutch residences

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This study analysed and modelled summertime indoor temperature dynamics in the Netherlands using a unique long‐term crowdsourced dataset from seven residences (spanning 2–27 years). Indoor temperatures were found to rise and cool more slowly than outdoors (mean 260 minute lag), with heatwave signals persisting about five days.
Esther E. M. Peerlings   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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