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Massachusetts Immigrants by the Numbers: Demographic Characteristics and Economic Footprint [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Massachusetts Immigrants by the Numbers: Demographic Characteristics and Economic Footprint is the first ILC-commissioned study that looks across the contributions that immigrants make in all their roles as members of the Massachusetts community. It is a
Alan Clayton-Matthews   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Using AI in My Disputes? Clients' Perception and Acceptance of Using AI in Mediation

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how potential mediation clients perceive and accept mediators using AI in their disputes through the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Based on 12 semi‐structured interviews, this research identifies three critical factors influencing participants' acceptance: (1) the specific tasks and processes ...
Yeju Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Mediation Agreement in the Courtroom

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing European legal scholarship focuses primarily on legal frameworks and conditions for mediation, while not delving into practical aspects of mediation on the ground. Concurrently, the social sciences lack the analysis of roles and approaches of different actors in mediation.
Lenka Dušková, Jan Holas
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalizing Folk Theories of Algorithms: How Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) Govern Algorithmic Labor in Chinese Live-Streaming Industry [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
As algorithmic systems increasingly structure platform labor, workers often rely on informal "folk theories", experience-based beliefs about how algorithms work, to navigate opaque and unstable algorithmic environments. Prior research has largely treated these theories as bottom-up, peer-driven strategies for coping with algorithmic opacity and ...
arxiv  

Measuring Cost of Quality (CoQ) on SDLC Projects is Indispensible for Effective Software Quality Assurance [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2014
It is well known fact that was phrased by famous quality scholar P.B. Crosby that it is always cheaper to do the job right the first time. However, this statement must be reconsidered with respect to software development projects, because the concept of quality and associated costs measurements in software engineering discipline is not as matured as in
arxiv  

The Business Case for Circular Economy: A Co‐Evolutionary Perspective for Integrating Moral Cases Into Circular Economy Business Cases

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ongoing debate in corporate sustainability (CS) about the moral case versus the business case has recently made its way into the circular economy (CE) discourse, bringing with it new tradeoffs. Although the business case perspective emphasizes profitability, critics argue that the moral case must go beyond profit motives and include ...
Felix Carl Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benchmarking Blunders and Things That Go Bump in the Night [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2004
Benchmarking; by which I mean any computer system that is driven by a controlled workload, is the ultimate in performance testing and simulation. Aside from being a form of institutionalized cheating, it also offer countless opportunities for systematic mistakes in the way the workloads are applied and the resulting measurements interpreted. Right test,
arxiv  

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