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Fostering the social utility of events: an integrative framework for the strategic use of events in community development [PDF]
, 2013 Although the use of planned events for achieving community development has received academic attention from different disciplines, the findings of these literatures are not systematically used towards developing a common understanding aimed at fostering ...
Ziakas, V
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A General Mechanism Design Methodology for Social Utility Maximization with Linear Constraints [PDF]
PERV, 2014 Social utility maximization refers to the process of allocating resources in such a way that the sum of agents' utilities is maximized under the system constraints.
Anastasopoulos, Achilleas +1 more
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Social Utility of Academic Research
Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2011 The Nepal Intellectual Forum (NepIf), Pokhara, had invited Professor Chaitanya Mishra to deliver a lecture on ‘Social Utility of Academic Research’ on May 22, 2010. We thank Prof Mishra and the NepIf for providing extracts from the lecture to this publication.
Chaitanya Mishra
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Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity [PDF]
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 Balancing social utility and equity in distributing limited vaccines is a critical policy concern for protecting against the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and future health emergencies.
Chen L +6 more
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Conceptual Resilience Versus Social Utility in Strategic Thinking
RUSI Journal, 2022 The West produces a lot of strategic thinking, most of it ad hoc responses to present stimuli not only rarely analytically or strategically useful but often damaging existing and useful strategic theory as a consequence. Lukas Milevski applies resilience
Lukas Milevski
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The legitimacy of increasing marginal utility in social services: The case of university examinations [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2010 The concept of utility became rightfully recognized in economic theory with the introduction of decreasing marginal utility. However a question that arises is: does an increasing consumption of goods always and without exception lead to diminishing ...
Filipić Petar
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Peer Effects in Risk Taking [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the effect of peers on individual risk taking. In the absence of informational motives, we investigate why social utility concerns may drive peer effects.
Lahno, Amrei M., Serra-Garcia, Marta
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022 This study arrives at a representation for ‘utility from decision making’ that is robust to modeling of any of ‘social interactions’, ‘economic activities’, or with social interactions interwoven with economic activities, modeling of ‘socioeconomic ...
Oghenovo A. Obrimah
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Utilizing Social Media For Lead Generation [PDF]
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019 The Internet has not become the most widely used channel for communication but also the platform for forming and maintaining new relationships. The growth of platforms and the exponential rise in the user base of social media websites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, is evidence of the widespread acceptance of these networking platforms as the ...
Prakash, Adjitesh +2 more
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Trace Me If You Can: An Unlinkability Approach for Privacy-Preserving in Social Networks
IEEE Access, 2021 Privacy in social networks has been a vast active area of research due to the enormous increase in privacy concerns with social networking services. Social networks contain sensitive information of individuals, which could be leaked due to insecure data ...
Kah Meng Chong, Amizah Malip
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