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Journal articles on the topic "Platforms of opportunity"
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Sedory Holzer, Susan E., and Phillip Kokemueller. "Internet Platforms for Lifelong Learning: A Continuum of Opportunity." Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America 40, no. 6 (December 2007): 1275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.otc.2007.07.007.
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Bi, Gongbing, Qinghua Xiang, Botao Geng, and Qiong Xia. "Decision strategies in reward-based crowdfunding: the role of crowdfunding platforms." Journal of Modelling in Management 14, no. 3 (August 2, 2019): 569–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jm2-10-2018-0179.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of the crowdfunding platforms on reward-based crowdfunding projects. This study offers guidance for the creator on how to choose among platforms and how to make optimal product and pricing decisions. Design/methodology/approach Usually, crowdfunding platforms are able to help creators to lower unit costs and charge platform fees in return. In this paper, the reduction of the unit cost and the platform fee are selected for determining the competitive strength (CS) of a platform. Then, the CS affecting the creators and the backers of the projects is analyzed. Findings In the basic model, when the product quality level is exogenous, the optimal price increases in the product quality level and decreases in the difficulty level of the project, while the corresponding expected profit is a unimodal function of the product quality level and the difficulty level. In the endogenous case, the optimal price is exactly twice the unit cost. With the influence of platforms, platforms with higher CS tend to help the creator to lower the prices and to achieve higher profitability. Moreover, platforms with higher CS usually help the creator to offer higher quality products and to charge higher prices. Research limitations/implications The opportunity cost is zero in this paper. In reality, backers arrive at the project in different order. Usually, earlier backers bare more opportunity cost and risk. Originality/value To the best of authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first one to offer suggestions for creators on how to choose among crowdfunding platforms. The study provides theoretical guidance on product and pricing decisions on an analytical side.
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Sokolov, A. V., and O. E. Komarov. "Digital Feedback Platforms." Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies 36 (2021): 26–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2021.36.26.
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In present day realities there is a growing need to build a dialogue between the government and civil society, to increase the degree of citizen participation in administrative and state activities. The best opportunity for building such effective interaction is the Internet. Digital feedback platforms can play a significant role in this interaction. They demonstrate interests of the society, make it possible to identify and promptly solve the existing problems, as well as facilitate the involvement of citizens in the preparation and decision-making process. The authors conducted an expert survey to identify the features of digital feedback platform functioning. As part of the study, the factors that stimulate the authorities to establish digital platforms have been identified. The authors also identified the degree of involvement of citizens in digital platforms in Russian regions. The study helped to identify the barriers of digital platforms development and theirs widespread use. The authors formulated recommendations for further elaboration and promotion of digital platforms.
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Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Rasmi Avula, Lan Mai Tran, Vani Sethi, Alok Kumar, Dinesh Baswal, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Alok Ranjan, and Purnima Menon. "Missed opportunities for delivering nutrition interventions in first 1000 days of life in India: insights from the National Family Health Survey, 2006 and 2016." BMJ Global Health 6, no. 2 (February 2021): e003717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003717.
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ObjectivesExisting health and community nutrition systems have the potential to deliver many nutrition interventions. However, the coverage of nutrition interventions across the delivery platforms of these systems has not been uniform. We (1) examined the opportunity gaps between delivery platforms and corresponding nutrition interventions through the continuum of care in India between 2006 and 2016 and and (2) assessed inequalities in these opportunity gaps.MethodsWe used two rounds of the National Family Health Survey data from 2005 to 2006 and 2015–2016 (n=36 850 and 190 898 mother–child dyads, respectively). We examine the opportunity gaps over time for seven nutrition interventions and their associated delivery platforms at national and state levels. We assessed equality and changes in equality between 2006 and 2016 for opportunity gaps by education, residence, socioeconomic status (SES), public and private platforms.ResultsCoverage of nutrition interventions was consistently lower than the reach of their associated delivery platforms; opportunity gaps ranging from 9 to 32 percentage points (pp) during the pregnancy, 17 pp during delivery and 9–26 pp during childhood in 2006. Between 2006 and 2016, coverage improved for most indicators, but coverage increases for nutrition interventions was lower than for associated delivery platforms. The opportunity gaps were larger among women with higher education (22–57 pp in 2016), higher SES status and living in urban areas (23–57 pp), despite higher coverage of most interventions and the delivery platforms among these groups. Opportunity gaps vary tremendously by state with the highest gaps observed in Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar islands, and Punjab for different indicators.ConclusionsIndia’s progress in coverage of health and nutrition interventions in the last decade is promising, but both opportunity and equality gaps remained. It is critical to close these gaps by addressing policy and programmatic delivery systems bottlenecks to achieve universal coverage for both health and nutrition within the delivery system.
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Fombrun, Charles J., Naomi A. Gardberg, and Michael L. Barnett. "Opportunity Platforms and Safety Nets: Corporate Citizenship and Reputational Risk." Business and Society Review 105, no. 1 (January 2000): 85–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0045-3609.00066.
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Hajaj, Chen, and David Sarne. "Selective opportunity disclosure at the service of strategic information platforms." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 31, no. 5 (January 7, 2017): 1133–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-016-9357-1.
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Sula, Gerda. "OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY AS AN OPTION FOR AN ALBANIAN UNIVERSITY WITH NO ONLINE PLATFORM: CAN IT BE USED TO IMPROVE LEARNING?" CBU International Conference Proceedings 4 (September 26, 2016): 782–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v4.849.
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Online platforms are a worthy opportunity for extended learning, peer collaboration, and joint efforts outside the university classroom. However, in order to offer such a pedagogical tool, the online environment needs to be designed for teachers and students alike. The University of Tirana does not offer such platforms and hence, this study explores whether other open source platforms could be used to fulfill the aims and objectives of the subjects offered at this university. The results of this research, comparing two groups of students’ performance of the Curriculum Design class, one with no online platform access, and the other with platform access, showed that students’ understanding was heightened significantly in the group with online access. In this paper, the benefits of such opportunities in developing countries with no technological platform are discussed. Furthermore, recommendations for the researcher or teacher are shared regarding the planning and management of resources, such as time, discussion, and conclusions for others interested in embarking on the same path.
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Ostoj, Izabela. "Digital technological platforms – an opportunity or a threat to quality work?" Nierówności społeczne a wzrost gospodarczy 63, no. 3 (2020): 246–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/nsawg.2020.3.12.
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Digital technological platforms that facilitate the provision of many services are a relatively new development in the economy, especially in the labour market. As they are becoming increasingly prevalent, the characteristics of this business model are gradually revealed. The model creates many novel ways to make goods available and generate income, but it also translates into a new quality of work. In the discussion of the labour market segment operating based on technological platforms, the world literature tends to employ the concepts of the gig economy and cybertariat, which are unequivocally negative in their connotations. The paper discusses the relationship between technological innovations and work. It aims to determine the characteristics of work carried out through digital technological platforms in the cross-section of the major dimensions of quality work. The paper presents the verification of the research hypothesis assuming that the business model adopted by digital technological platforms threatens the standards of quality work. The analysis uses the methodology designed by the author and employs the criteria developed by the European Anti-Poverty Network, constituting the quintessence of the contemporary approach to the issue in the European Union. Its main conclusion is that the gig economy segment is highly heterogeneous, which makes it difficult to assess and discuss the problems arising in this segment and their solutions. In consequence, it requires a clarification through adequate classifications and identification of problem groups. However, the research results reveal that a significant part of the gig economy generates very low quality work.
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Handegard, Nils Olav, Olav Rune Godoe, and Patrick Lehodey. "Acoustic data from platforms of opportunity as fuel for ecosystem models." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (May 2008): 3212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2933393.
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C. Cant, Michael. "Using social media to market a promotional event to SMEs: opportunity or wasted effort?" Problems and Perspectives in Management 14, no. 4 (December 14, 2016): 76–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.14(4).2016.09.
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Much has been said about the advantages of using social media in the marketing of brands and products of companies. Marketing, as we knew it in the past millennia, has changed dramatically and is evolving at a faster pace than ever. Traditional media, such as print and broadcast, are becoming more obsolete and largely replaced by social media platforms. These platforms are growing and expanding in leaps and bounds and have become potent instruments of marketing. It is up to organizations to use these platforms to market their brands, services and business, as it can have a profound effect on the success and growth. This is even truer in the case of entrepreneurs who are generally younger and more technology savvy and who use social media for all means and purposes. The purpose of this research study was, therefore, to investigate the use of social media among institutions that focus on specific events such as a business plan competition and to establish to what extent the use of these social media tools were used or effectively used to communicate the event to SMEs. A web-based self-administered questionnaire was distributed among the respondents of a business plan competition. A total of 992 useable responses were received. The findings mainly revealed that institutions that use social media in their marketing drive either do not plan properly for the use of it, or is careless in their approach to these tools. The results pointed to a large number of respondents (55%) who were not even aware that social media tools were used in the promotion of the competition. Keywords: social media, SME, special event marketing, marketing, usage, promotional mix elements, South Africa. JEL Classification: M13
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Platforms of opportunity"
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Williams, Rob. "Cetacean studies using platforms of opportunity." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2836.
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As human impact on marine ecosystems continues to grow, so too does the need for sound conservation and management strategies that are informed by science. Cetaceans, the whales, dolphins and porpoises, epitomise this challenge, because they are hard to study, they have been heavily exploited in the past, and because some of their habitats, behaviours and life-history strategies make them acutely vulnerable to human activities. Unfortunately, research on free-ranging cetaceans in remote areas is costly, and financial resources are limited. The approach used in this thesis to acquire inexpensive quantitative information on cetacean populations and behaviour was to seek out platforms of opportunity. Tourism and environmental education projects provided access to remote areas of importance to cetaceans. The topic was explored in two main areas. First, studies were conducted to investigate the use of ships of opportunity in estimating distribution and abundance, namely of Antarctic baleen whales. The second area of interest was the effect of boats on killer whales in the northeast Pacific. Platforms of opportunity proved valuable for collecting data to model the role of measurement error on abundance estimation. Measurement error was found to be a potential source of bias in four distance estimation experiments. Platforms of opportunity could be used to train observers on protocols, and to learn to use range- finding photogrammetric equipment well before conducting dedicated surveys, which would eliminate this source of bias, as well as estimating abundance in some cases. Abundance and distribution of three whale species were modelled using data collected aboard Antarctic tourist ships. Spatial modelling techniques were used to model distribution of minke, fin and humpback whales using line-transect data collected from a survey that could not be randomised. Strong gradients in animal density were predicted, which could be used to inform future surveys. In the meantime, rough estimates of abundance were obtained, and this approach shows promise for other areas where lack of resources makes systematic surveys prohibitively expensive. A government-funded environmental education project provided logistical support for two studies that dealt with effects of boats on killer whale behaviour. One quantified the extent to which a particular style of whalewatching was disruptive to whale behaviour, and commercial whalewatchers agreed to halt this activity. The other found that a protected area conferred benefit to killer whales, even though it protects only a fraction of the whales' habitat for a fraction of the year. The thesis contains four case studies that illustrate how inexpensive methods may be used to obtain practical quantitative information to aid decision-making about conservation and management of wild cetaceans that interact with (i.e., whalewatching), compete with (i.e., fishing) or are exploited by (i.e., whaling) humans.
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Marques, Fernanda F. C. "Estimating wildlife distribution and abundance from line transect surveys conducted from platforms of opportunity." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3727.
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Line transect data obtained from 'platforms of opportunity' are useful for the monitoring of long term trends in dolphin populations which occur over vast areas, yet analyses of such data axe problematic due to violation of fundamental assumptions of line transect methodology. In this thesis we develop methods which allow estimates of dolphin relative abundance to be obtained when certain assumptions of line transect sampling are violated. Generalised additive models are used to model encounter rate and mean school size as a function of spatially and temporally referenced covariates. The estimated relationship between the response and the environmental and locational covariates is then used to obtain a predicted surface for the response over the entire survey region. Given those predicted surfaces, a density surface can then be obtained and an estimate of abundance computed by numerically integrating over the entire survey region. This approach is particularly useful when search effort is not random, in which case standard line transect methods would yield biased estimates. Estimates of f (0) (the inverse of the effective strip (half-)width), an essential component of the line transect estimator, may also be biased due to heterogeneity in detection probabilities. We developed a conditional likelihood approach in which covariate effects are directly incorporated into the estimation procedure. Simulation results indicated that the method performs well in the presence of size-bias. When multiple covariates are used, it is important that covariate selection be carried out. As an example we applied the methods described above to eastern tropical Pacific dolphin stocks. However, uncertainty in stock identification has never been directly incorporated into methods used to obtain estimates of relative or absolute abundance. Therefore we illustrate an approach in which trends in dolphin relative abundance axe monitored by small areas, rather than stocks.
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Williams, Gavin. "Access - an opportunity platform for Burger's Park Pretoria." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30021.
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This dissertation investigates the accessibility of public architecture. The aim is to illustrate the relevance of accessibility by establishing a theoretical premise and applying it in design. The theoretical analysis defines inclusive design and examines the relevance of the topic within the South African context. It explores written theory on the topic and how it has evolved. The aim is to understand the implications of an inclusive design approach in architecture and to assess the inclusivity of recently completed buildings. The design investigation explores an exclusively inclusive approach in the design of a public building. The intent is to create a building that is inclusive; one that can be used by all. Currently, there is a lack of accessible public facilities in the Burger’s Park precinct, thus the Burger’s Park Opportunity Platform is proposed. The Opportunity Platform is a building that provides and facilitates the necessary resources for a community to prosper. It facilitates much needed community programmes and facilities such as literacy and skills training and access to books, the Internet and other media. The public nature of this building type implies that it is to be used by the entire community, which provides appropriate conditions to explore inclusive design in Pretoria. The study, through theoretical, empirical and contextual enquiry, provides an understanding of the principles pertaining to inclusive design and how it manifests in architecture.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Boukouyen, Fatiha. "Analyse compréhensive du comportement opportuniste des acteurs sur les plateformes de co-création." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMC025.
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La littérature des plateformes de co-création s’est généralement focalisée sur les participants (i.e., la foule) et a investigué leurs motivations, leurs caractéristiques et les stratégies qu’ils peuvent adopter (i.e., coopération, compétition, coopétition). C’est ainsi que les chercheurs ont négligé l’étude de l’opportunisme malgré que son importance ait été évoquée dans certains travaux de recherche. Pour combler ce gap théorique, notre recherche a pour objectif d’explorer et de comprendre le comportement opportuniste des acteurs de co-création (i.e., marques, plateformes et participants) dans le contexte virtuel, plus particulièrement celui des plateformes de co-création, et ce en utilisant la méthode de la Netnographie sur deux plateformes de co-création internationales et un forum de discussion dédié à différents créateurs. Le cadre théorique de notre travail de recherche, les principaux résultats et les apports théoriques, méthodologiques et managériaux sont présentés dans les chapitres correspondantsThe literature on co-creation platforms has been mainly focused on studying the crowds (i.e., participants) and that by investigating their motivations, their characteristics, and the strategies they use (i.e., cooperation, competition, coopetition). Therefore, researchers did not study opportunism even if its importance has been emphasized in prior research. To fill this gap, our research aims to explore and understand opportunistic behavior of actors or co-creators (i.e., brands, platforms, and participants) in the virtual context, especially that of co-creation platforms, using the method of Netnography in two famous co-creation platforms and a forum which is dedicated to different creators. Our research background, the main results as well as theoretical, methodological, and practical implications are presented in the related chapters
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Locke, Abigail, R. Lawthom, and A. Lyons. "Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15501.
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YesThis special issue on feminisms and social media is published at a unique point in time, namely when social media platforms are routinely utilised for communication from the mundane to the extraordinary, to offer support and solidarity, and to blame and victimise. Collectively, social media are online technologies that provide the ability for community building and interaction (Boyd & Ellison, 2007), allowing people to interact, share, create and consume online content (Lyons, McCreanor, Goodwin, & Moewaka Barnes, 2017). They include such platforms as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tinder, and Snapchat among others.
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Carvalho, Patrícia Pereira de Gouveia Ferreira de. "Assessing cetacean occurrence along a fixed transect in the Madeira archipelago." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/7632.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada no ISPA – Instituto Universitário para obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Biologia marinha e conservação.Cetaceans are key species in marine ecosystems, knowledge of their distribution patterns is fundamental not only for their conservation and management, but also for their habitat. Still, data on their occurrence in Madeira Archipelago, is fragmented and scarce. For the current study, platforms of opportunity were used to collect data, resulting in 17,000 km surveyed, 590 sightings and the identification of eleven species, from a two-year sampling range between June 2016 and June 2018. The current study also gives new insights into unexplored or under- studied areas, such as the area between Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island. From all the identified species, only those with a number of sightings equal or greater than 20 were included to determine encounter rates and investigate temporal and spatial distribution, these were, Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis), common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and Bryde’s whale (Balaenoptera edeni). Correlation between spatial distribution and environmental habitat variables, such as distance to coast and depth, was also inferred. Hence this thesis aims to contribute to increase the enrichment of knowledge regarding cetacean presence in the Madeira archipelago by looking into their spatio-temporal patterns of distribution. Results have pinpointed the richness of the studied area, as cetaceans occurred through the entire route, with the identification of a total of 11 from the 29 species identified for the Madeira archipelago. The correlation between distance to coast and depth seems to influence the distribution of some species. Among the sighted species, the Bryde’s whale showed a preference for coastal waters, while the sperm whale seems to occur most frequently in deeper waters. Considering the Habitats Directive resolutions, ACCOBAMS’ agreement priorities and the urgent need for management plans, it is suggested that the sampling strategy here presented is a cost-effective method to collect valuable data for such key species.
O grupo dos cetáceos inclui representantes de espécies fundamentais para os ecossistemas marinhos e o conhecimento dos seus padrões de distribuição é fundamental para a gestão e conservação não só dos cetáceos, mas também seu habitat. Contudo, dados sobre a sua ocorrência no arquipélago da Madeira são fragmentados e escassos. Para adquirir tais informações, foram utilizadas plataformas de oportunidade, resultando em 17.000 km percorridos, 590 avistamentos e identificação de 11 espécies, num intervalo de amostragem de dois anos, entre junho de 2016 e junho de 2018. O presente estudo também faculta no conhecimento sobre áreas inexploradas ou pouco estudadas, como a área entre a Ilha da Madeira e Ilha de Porto Santo. De todas as espécies identificadas, apenas aquelas com um número de avistamentos (n) acima de 20 foram consideradas para determinar taxas de encontro e investigar a sua distribuição temporal e espacial: golfinho-pintado (Stenella frontalis), golfinho-roaz (Tursiops truncatus), golfinho-comum (Delphinus delphis), baleia-piloto-tropical (Globicephala macrorhynchus), cachalote (Physeter macrocephalus) e baleia-de-Bryde (Balaenoptera edeni). A possível correlação entre a distribuição espacial e variáveis ambientais estáticas, como distância à costa e profundidade também foi analisada. A presente tese tem como objetivo contribuir para o enriquecimento do conhecimento geral sobre a presença de cetáceos no arquipélago da Madeira, estudando os seus padrões de distribuição espaço-temporal. Os resultados indicam uma grande riqueza da área estudada, pois a presença de cetáceos ocorreu ao longo de todo o percurso, permitindo a identificação de um total de 11 das 29 espécies identificadas para o arquipélago da Madeira. As variáveis ambientais, distância da costa e profundidade, mostraram influenciar a distribuição de algumas espécies, entre as quais a Baleia-de-Bryde, que mostrou preferência por águas costeiras, enquanto o cachalote mostrou preferência por águas mais profundas. Para todas as restantes, nenhuma correlação foi inferida, sugerindo uma ampla gama de uso de habitat. Considerando as resoluções da Diretiva Habitats, as prioridades do tratado ACCOBAMS e a necessidade urgente de planos de gestão, sugere-se que a estratégia de amostragem aqui apresentada, utilizando plataformas de oportunidade para recolha de dados em áreas mais inacessíveis, seja um método económico para reunir dados valiosos para a conservação de espécies-chave, como os cetáceos.
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Molenaar, Nadia Franciska. "Marabastad : place and the individual - the individual in place." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29721.
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In the north-western corner of inner-city Pretoria, South Africa, the business district of Marabastad stands as a prime example of the lack of humanised public space making in marginalised urban areas. Amidst the vibrant and spontaneous local community the open spaces in this urban landscape are left derelict and insufficient in providing for the needs of their users. In response to the obvious and unseen deficiencies of the area, this landscape architectural study aims to shape platforms of opportunity to support the struggling local community by building on existing social networks and, formal and informal, economical practices. The investigation and subsequent design of this dissertation are focussed around the making of an urban square that will encourage interaction between individuals as well as between the individual and his/her surroundings.Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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Chen, Po-Yu, and 陳柏羽. "Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: Case study of Crowdfunding platform." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75stm9.
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The research focus on（1）Why an innovative business model-crowdfunding appears in some industries,(2) How can the founders recognize the entrepreneurial opportunities, and (3) After crowdfunding platforms is established, how they in response to the deformation of its industrial environments. The subjects selected for the Taiwan crowdfunding platforms and the industrial development. The First crowdfunding platform in the news industry-WeReport, the biggest crowdfunding platform in the Venture Capital industry-FlyingV, crowdfunding in product design industry-Limitstyle and crowdfunding in charity industry-Red Turtle are in our discussion. We found that entrepreneurial opportunities arise, including appearing of new knowledge or technology, the old market’s inefficiency, changing of cost or structural. Next you need prior knowledge by entrepreneurs, social networks to recognize this opportunity. And according to various entrepreneurs venture to judge whether personality traits, values included entrepreneurs, the cost of judgment, optimism. Taking crowdfunding platform as a new business model, it changed in the process of commercialization into various industries. Otherwise, they are still some common features. They deeply reference to overseas platforms, having optimistic view to platform development, and they don’t think that is a competitive relationship between the various platforms. Crowdfunding platform use social network website to be the primary promote channel and they all design long term profit model to maintain sustainable.
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Kao, Yueh-mei, and 高月美. "New Opportunity for Travel Industry Development– A Case Study on Cross-Service Platform." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89m449.
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Traveling industry is one of the most important industries in the developed countries. The higher GDP it is, the more pleasure people can enjoy it. Nevertheless, according to the asymmetry data of this industry, Consumer can not understand it’s quality in advance, sometimes faced a fraud problems when they pay the expense before they travel. The threshold of being in tourism industry is not high, in early years, Taiwan government opened up the restrictions on tourism; it encouraged a dramatic increase of travel agencies in a short period of time but resulted high competition in the market these years. One good solution to provide high quality service and create customer’s confidence is to set up strategic alliances with the bank industry and cooperation pattern between Comprehensive travel agents and Grade-A travel agents to develop an e-commerce market place. This platform provides not only the service and products that the agencies could sell but also the rights, obligations and agreements to both the agencies and consumers; this way, consumers are able to obtain necessary information while purchasing, and it avoids future possible conflicts as well. This research is an exploratory case study for the alliance of bank industry and tourism. With the well-known banks’ endorsement, travel agencies could create their own brands in the market and obtain customers confidence in their service. Meanwhile, by the brand image, more distribution channels, potential opportunities and profits will be built, and it benefits both the tourism industry and the customers ultimately.
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Cho, Shih-Hao, and 卓世豪. "Constructing Management An Opportunity Grid and Exploring Core Competence of Job Searching Platform－A Case Study of S Company In ShangHai." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22107NCHU5457056%22.&searchmode=basic.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the core of the service and the customer''s awareness of the core service of the job, to construct the management opportunity of the company, and then explore the management strategy of the job. The research first refers to the research literature of relevant scholars at home and abroad, and then through the internal discussion of S company, and summarizes the seven major facets of job seekers on the online job application platform of Shanghai S Company, including layout design, work content, and promotion of job hunting. Efficiency, functionality, experience, added value and service. Measure the service items of all core competences with importance and satisfaction. Then develop 28 questionnaires and construct management opportunities. To further explore future strategic directions and solutions to enhance competitiveness and competitive advantage. The empirical findings of this study are as follows. The first three core service items that the clients consider to be the most important are the "images and texts", "joblessness for job search" and "platform stability". The corresponding facets are respectively "layout design". "Experience" and "Service". The research results show that S Company''s Yanjia APP should immediately improve the project. It has online help for job-seekers, can confirm with the interviewer immediately, and can share job opportunities. Therefore, it is recommended to add online consultants to the job application platform of Shanghai S Company''s online job search platform. Those who are able to get enough information quickly can also grasp the dynamics of job hunting. In order to get a quicker opportunity to confirm work, this is what young job seekers need most. In addition, one-click sharing is also the favorite sharing economy for young people. At the same time, it can also get the satisfaction of the identification between friends. The project in the fourth quadrant area will be promoted to the first quadrant, which will enhance the satisfaction of consumers；thus, S Company would bring benefits.
Books on the topic "Platforms of opportunity"
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Party, Conservative. Opportunity and prosperity for Wales: The Conservative manifesto 1997 = Cyfle a llewyrch i Gymru : maniffesto'r Blaid Geidwadol 1997. Caerdydd (Cardiff): Swyddfa Ganolog y Blaid Geidwadol yng Nghymru (Conservative Central Office for Wales), 1997.
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Africa), Democratic Party (South, ed. In place of race and quotas: Building the opportunity society : Democratic Party thinking on affirmative action : draft discussion document. Cape Town: R. Coetzee, 1998.
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Henry, Cisneros, and Harvard University. Joint Center for Housing Studies., eds. Opportunity and progress: A bipartisan platform for national housing policy. Cambridge, Mass: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2004.
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Harvard University. Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy. Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard U, 2004.
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Clark, Catherine E. Looking Back, Looking Forward. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190681647.003.0007.
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The Vidéothèque de Paris, a video archive of the city’s past that opened in 1988, provides the opportunity to take stock of over a hundred years of putting pictures of Paris’s past at the heart of municipal policy and prestige. While its futuristic viewing pods, robots, and searchable databases seem to predict the future of the Internet, video-sharing platforms, and digital history, the Vidéothèque also reveals how the production and circulation of images are not just windows onto urban change but part and parcel of that history. Photographs shaped the historical imagination in the twentieth century in significant ways. People learned to read photographs as history, while simultaneously believing them to provide transparent, direct access to the past. Photographs forged individual and collective memory. And, their circulation and institutionalization paved the way for arguments about Paris’s reduction to an image or a museum city in the twentieth century.
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Robillard, Julie M., and Emily Wight. Communicating about the brain in the digital era. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786832.003.0028.
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Neuroscience communication is at a turning point, with tremendous opportunity for growth and democratization. The rise of the web and social media as platforms for dissemination of research findings and stakeholder engagement presents both unique opportunities and critical ethical considerations. Online- and mobile-based information and services for brain health may enhance the autonomy of users in health decision-making. However, nonadherence to ethical norms, such as informed consent and conflict of interest by digital content creators, may lead to harm. The challenges of communicating neuroscience in the digital era will require the rejection of the traditional top-down dissemination of research findings by the science community. Communicators must embrace participatory communication models, frame science in non-sensationalized, lay-friendly terms, improve the ethics of online resources and web users’ ability to assess the quality of information and source material, and educate scientists in the importance of transparency and public engagement.
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Hunter, Murray. Opportunity, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 1: Introduction, the Nature of Opportunity, Time and Space, the Vision Platform, and Making Connections. Nova Science Pub Inc, 2012.
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Palmer, Landon. Rock Star/Movie Star. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888404.001.0001.
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When midcentury Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock ’n’ roll stars. Such stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion picture and recording industries increasingly saw cinematic rock stardom as a profitable means to connect multiple media properties. This book examines how casting rock stars for film provided a tool for bridging new relationships across media industries and practices. Rock Star/Movie Star offers a new perspective on the role of stardom within the convergence of media industries. While hardly the first popular music culture to see its stars making the transition to screen, the timing of rock’s emergence and its staying power within popular culture proved fortuitous for a motion picture business searching for its place in the face of continuous technological and cultural change. At the same time, a post-star-system film industry provided a welcoming context for rock stars who have valued authenticity, creative autonomy, and personal expression. Examining stars from Elvis Presley to Madonna, this book uses illuminating archival resources to demonstrate how rock stars have often proven themselves to be prominent film workers exploring this terrain of platforms old and new—ideal media laborers whose power lies in the fact that they are rarely recognized as such.
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Martin Hard, Bridgette, and James J. Gross. Introductory Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935291.013.45.
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Teaching introductory psychology presents many challenges. These include the diversity of teaching goals, the broad content, and the hefty enrollments. The course also presents teachers with the opportunity to make a number of significant contributions. This chapter describes an approach to teaching introductory psychology that is designed to address its challenges and opportunities. This approach involves making the course a platform for teaching graduate and undergraduate students to teach. In our approach, students and teachers learn in parallel. We share three key features of our approach to educating students and teachers simultaneously, namely encouraging skill development, fostering growth mindsets, and building social connections.
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Njoku, Mary Gloria C. International Community Psychology Development. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190457938.003.0021.
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As a psychologist working in an academic setting in Nigeria, the author had the opportunity to develop a variety of social research and action projects both within the university setting and in the surrounding community. In addition, her participation in starting a new private university and implementing educational reformation has given the author the platform to practice community principles. There are challenges to international community psychology development work in Nigeria that include her reintegration into the Nigerian cultural system and recognition of the dynamics in operation and provision of relevant interventions. This chapter presents the reader with the author’s path to doing community psychology in Nigeria and offers suggestions and lessons learned for readers interested in doing international work.
Book chapters on the topic "Platforms of opportunity"
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Basalisco, Bruno, and Guido M. Rey. "Industrial Policy for SMEs Renewal: The Opportunity of Service Platforms." In Contributions to Economics, 41–70. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2852-8_3.
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Leng, Mei, and Wee Peng Tay. "Fundamental Limits of Self-localization for Cooperative Robotic Platforms Using Signals of Opportunity." In Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks 2015, 159–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18299-5_8.
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Borde, J., P. von Ballmoos, and R. Soumagne. "Small-sat platforms and formation flying: An opportunity for the gamma ray telescope MAX." In Focusing Telescopes in Nuclear Astrophysics, 465–82. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5304-7_46.
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Gerth, Sebastian, and Lars Heim. "Blockchain as an Approach for Secure Data Storage on Digital Consulting Platforms." In Digital Entrepreneurship, 103–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53914-6_6.
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AbstractThis chapter examines the concept of data security in a society increasingly shaped by digital technologies. We show how secure data storage can be optimised regarding digital documentation in the implementation of health-related service offers based on established procedures. Security and privacy of data are therefore particularly important in this subject area since highly sensitive data is stored and processed during health-related online consultations. The advent of blockchain technology provides a valuable opportunity to create trust in digital platforms. After relevant concepts and terms have been clarified, the functionality of the blockchain in general, as well as the different types, will be discussed. From this, options for the use of online consulting are developed and illustrated on the basis of three use cases.
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Giagnoni, Laura, Tania Martellini, Roberto Scodellini, Alessandra Cincinelli, and Giancarlo Renella. "Co-composting: An Opportunity to Produce Compost with Designated Tailor-Made Properties." In Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking, 185–211. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36283-6_9.
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AbstractCo-composting is a technique that allows the aerobic degradation of organic waste mixtures, primarily aiming at obtaining compost that can be used as fertiliser or soil amendment. As compared to the typical composting activity, the main difference is not merely the use of more than one feedstock to start and sustain the biodegradation process, but also the possibility of combining various kinds of waste to obtain ‘tailored’ products with designed properties, or to reclaim and valorise natural resources, such as degraded soils or polluted soils and sediments. Set up of appropriate co-composting protocols can be a way to optimise the management of waste produced by different sectors of agriculture and industry and also from human settlements. Different formulations can not only optimise the biodegradation process through the adjustment of nutrient ratios, but also lead to the formation of products with innovative properties. Moreover, co-composting can be a technique of choice for the reclamation of soils degraded by intensive agriculture or contaminated soils and sediments. In fact, an appropriate mix of organic waste and soils can restore the soil structure and induce fertility in nutrient-depleted soils, and also remediate polluted soils and sediments through degradation of organic pollutants and stabilisation of heavy metals. While the selection of different mixes of organic waste may lead to the design of composts with specific properties and the potential valorisation of selected waste materials, there are still several factors that hamper the development of co-composting platforms, mainly insufficient knowledge of some chemical and microbiological processes, but also some legislative aspects. This chapter illustrates the progress achieved in co-composting technology worldwide, some key legislative aspects related to the co-composting process, the main scientific and technical aspects that deserve research attention to further develop co-composting technology, and successful applications of co-composting for the reclamation of soils and sediments, allowing their use for cultivation or as growing media in plant nurseries. A specific case study of the production of fertile plant-growing media from sediment co-composting with green waste is also illustrated.
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Thapa, Rajesh Bahadur, Poonam Tripathi, Mir A. Matin, Birendra Bajracharya, and Betzy E. Hernandez Sandoval. "Strengthening the Capacity on Geospatial Information Technology and Earth Observation Applications." In Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region, 269–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73569-2_14.
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AbstractThe innovative transformation in geospatial information technology (GIT) and Earth observation (EO) data provides a significant opportunity to study the Earth’s environment and enables an advanced understanding of natural and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems at the local, regional, and global levels (Thapa et al. in Carbon Balance Manag 10(23):1–13, 2015; Flores et al. in SAR handbook: comprehensive methodologies for forest monitoring and biomass estimation. NASA Publication, 2019; Leibrand et al. in Front Environ Sci 7:123, 2019; Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-73569-2_1). The major advantages of these technologies can be briefly categorized into five broad areas: multidisciplinary; innovative and emerging; providing platforms for analysis, modelling, and visualization; capability to support decision-making; and impact on policies.
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de Freitas, Rebecca. "Gen Z and Esports: Digitizing the Live Event Brand." In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021, 188–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65785-7_16.
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AbstractAs digitization converges with globalization, industries across the world establish new standards, platforms and audience engagement methods to delight consumers adjusting to CV19’s virtual space. Within the Tourism and Hospitality industry, gamification provides the events and meetings sector an opportunity to implement hybrid events at a level unseen before. Esports is the newest standard of gamification for hybrid, both live and virtual, events. However, within this new standard, there is a large knowledge gap among event organizers of how to execute an esport experience and why esports dominance is necessary to incorporate into hospitality and tourism models. Through understanding esports’ majority consumer, Gen Z, and accurately reflecting esports culture, event organizers will assist the tourism economy through prosperous esport events.
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Rose-Munro, Leanne. "Innovative Learning Environments, Are They Inclusive? Why Evaluating the Speaking, and Acoustic Potential of the Space Matters." In Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments, 151–65. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7497-9_13.
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AbstractInnovative learning spaces are a platform primarily designed to support the activity of speaking, listening and learning. However, evidence suggests that nearly 10% of students attending mainstream schools in their local communities have hearing difficulties. This study explores the acoustic potential of innovative learning spaces (ILE’s), and the impact of design affordances in terms of supporting the inclusion of students with hearing difficulties. The study highlights the importance of an acoustic platform that enables opportunity for all to participate in speaking and listening activity. In addition, the importance of student agency, the power to act and contribute to decision-making regarding the use and application of environmental affordances to enable student opportunity, inclusion and successful learning.
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Masonta, Moshe T., David Johnson, and Mjumo Mzyece. "The White Space Opportunity in Southern Africa: Measurements with Meraka Cognitive Radio Platform." In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 64–73. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_6.
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Shalan, Mohammad Ali, and Nebal Abdulrazzak Anaim. "The SMAC Opportunity Contracts." In Mobile Platforms, Design, and Apps for Social Commerce, 115–34. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2469-4.ch008.
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The concept of Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) is increasingly asserted as the phenomena with the potential to change technology and business relationships. In this SMAC era plenty of Middle Circle Contractors (MCCs) are being introduced as principal suppliers, integrators or outsourced contractors. This is reducing the Client Enterprise (CE) controls over their technology assets. Because it is not mature yet, SMAC nature is very disruptive and agile, thus rapidly changing the landscape of contracting, and ultimately turning the long-held promise of utility based computing into a reality. Such changes necessitate contracting transformation with innovated approaches to get targeted benefits, reduce risks and enhance operational controls. The main objective of this chapter is to provide guidelines to generate SMAC Opportunity Contracts (OCs) that are responsive and agile to provide the maximum business value, enhance risk governance and re-invent the roles and obligations in an ever-changing environment.
Conference papers on the topic "Platforms of opportunity"
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Childress, J. L., R. K. Shearman, and M. Harte. "Evaluation of dungeness crab pots as platforms of opportunity for ocean-observing research." In 2010 OCEANS MTS/IEEE SEATTLE. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/oceans.2010.5664269.
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Scozzari, Andrea, Jesus Gomez-Enri, Francesco Soldovieri, and Stefano Vignudelli. "Experimentation of a tomographic technique on envisat radar altimetry data: Oil platforms as an opportunity target." In IGARSS 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2014.6947486.
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Rodriguez, Joaquin, and Gabriele Piccoli. "Competing within aggregators: competitive moves in the Deliveroo Online delivery platform." In Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Society. University of Maribor Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-362-3.23.
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Aggregators are platforms that also control a marketplace for the suppliers’ innovations. Suppliers competing within aggregators are limited by the technology and governance rules of the platform owner. As a consequence, aggregators influence the type and complexity of competitive moves suppliers can implement. Our research investigates the drivers of suppliers’ competitive advantage. We incorporate existing literature on competitive action to identify the categories of moves available to suppliers. Furthermore, we identify three types of orthogonal moves that are unique to competition within aggregators. Finally, we illustrate our advanced categorization in the context of a major food delivery platform. Our preliminary results confirm that suppliers, while bounded to resources exposed by the aggregator, have the opportunity to implement an heterogenous portfolio of moves in their pursuit of competitive advantage. This result calls for empirical research in the context of competition within aggregators in general, and food delivery platforms specifically.
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Joseph, A. T., M. Deshpande, P. E. O'Neill, and L. Miles. "Development of VHF (240–270 MHz) antennas for SoOp (signal of opportunity) receiver for 6U Cubesat platforms." In 2016 Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/piers.2016.7735037.
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Chueri, Luciana, Anderson Afonso, Mariana Pinheiro, Mateus Lambranho Ramos, and Rodrigo Pereira Dos Santos. "Um Estudo Exploratório sobre Plataformas Digitais para Ecossistemas de Inovação Social no Brasil." In Workshop sobre Aspectos Sociais, Humanos e Econômicos de Software. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/washes.2020.11200.
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Due to the growing need for allowing different social innovation project actors to work in a coordinated and collaborative manner, the use of digital platforms has been considered as a great opportunity for social innovation ecosystems. However, in addition to technical issues, the existing challenges in the design and management of such platforms are combined with economic and social issues. This paper presents an exploratory study on real social innovation platforms to investigate technical, human and organizational factors. We expected that this study stimulates researchers and professionals to better design and manage such platforms in the context of social innovation.
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Patching, Richard G. "Pipe Supports and Skid Platforms: An Overlooked Noise Problem." In 2000 3rd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2000-269.
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When an energy industry facility must meet environmental noise regulations, the primary noise sources are the drivers (such as engines and motors), driven tools (such as compressors and pumps), air moving devices, and turbulent flow in valves and piping. The primary sound transmission path is the airborne radiation of noise, which is controlled by enclosures, lagging and silencers. The opportunity for sound energy to be transmitted through structural vibration and reradiated at another location is largely overlooked in typical acoustic impact analyses. Pipe support and skid structures often have large flat panels which are very efficient radiators of noise energy, where the sound energy generated by compressors can be emitted into the environment at some distance from the actual energy source. How a pipe is mounted on its supports, and the design of those supports, can have a significant effect on the noise emissions from its support structures.
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Usovaitė, Ana. "Texture mapping and lighting effects." In The 13th International Conference on Engineering and Computer Graphics BALTGRAF-13. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/baltgraf.2015.014.
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The light mapping is a texturing method. It is useful because the common lighting required more computer recourses and various difficult calculations. All lighting and shading methods required powerful computers. In order to solve this problem we can use the light mapping. For this method we need two textures: first texture for surface detail and second texture for fighting simulation. The multitexturing is the best way to realise the combination of the two textures. All three graphics programing platforms (DirectX, OpenGL and WebGL) have the opportunity to implement a light mapping. WebGL is a special branch of OpenGL that is responsible while using the Internet. All of these platforms allow Multitexturing.. Its realization is analogous. But light mapping requires few resources to extract the lighting effects. It is therefore interesting to realize light mapping WebGL platform. Realization is successful and the code is running in real time. The result is the lighting effect, which looks like a really calculated lighting.
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Dumančić, Kosjenka. "THE EU REGULATORY ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND SERVICES PROVISION." In EU 2021 – The future of the EU in and after the pandemic. Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25234/eclic/18347.
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New and innovative ways of service provisions based on digital platforms have changed the ways in which doing business, communicating and connecting providers to users in the EU Internal Market are shaped and transformed. Since the adoption of the Directive 2000/31/EC (the E-Commerce Directive) in 2000 digital services have gained market dominance, and this has become especially evident during the Covid-19 virus crisis when the importance of digital technologies in all aspects of modern life became prominent. It has clearly shown the dependency of the economy and the society on digital services highlighting both the benefits and the risks that stem from the current framework for the functioning of the services provided by the digital platforms regardless of whether they are defined as digital services or not. In the European Commission (EC) Communication “Shaping Europe’s Digital Future” the EC committed to update the horizontal rules that define the responsibilities and obligations of digital service providers, and online platforms in particular. Additionally, the European Parliament’s “Report on the Digital Services Act and fundamental rights issues posed” highlights the need for legal clarity of platforms and users, as well as respect for fundamental rights in the light of the rapid development of technology. According to the current data, the digital platforms account for over 10% of the EU's 45 million users. These platforms are subject not only to the specific obligations in controlling their own risks, but also to a new oversight structure. In 2020 the EC initiative was finalized by the “Proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market for Digital Service” which addresses the negative consequences arising from certain behaviours on platforms. Since the EU Internal market is impacted significantly by platforms that serve as intermediaries for business users to reach their customers, sometimes these companies assume control over the entire platform ecosystems, which in turn can grant them the opportunity to regulate certain relations. The controlling power comes from the practices that platform companies exercise and from using the data of the businesses and users operating on these platforms. This paper aims to analyse the current regulation on digital platforms and digital service provisions in the EU Internal Market and offer some conclusions on its possible impact on the market’s functioning especially in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequently.
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Başaran, Meltem. "An Investigation on the Netflix Platform in the Context of Flow Theory." In COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17932/ctcspc.21/ctc21.025.
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Today, with the development of technology, many developments and changes have been experienced in mass media. In the traditional period, content could only be accessed from sources such as television, newspapers, magazines, and radio, while the digital platforms that emerged with the era of the so-called new media enabled people to acquire the content they wanted at any time. Netflix, one of these digital platforms, is a video streaming service that offers on-demand access to individuals. Netflix, which first started selling DVD subscriptions by mail in 1998, has turned into a platform that sells monthly subscriptions to reach the video content it hosts today. Digital platforms such as Netflix offer users the opportunity to watch the content they want from anywhere, with the communication device (tablet, phone, computer) they want, in a way that they can create their own streams, without even the need for internet. Within the scope of this study, the contents on the Netflix platform in the context of the flow theory of Raymond Williams will be analyzed by content analysis method. Williams discussed the program structure of the television as streaming. According to him, television contents create a whole among themselves and present a flow to the viewers and the audience is caught in this flow. Within the scope of the study, the contents of Netflix, one of the digital content viewing platforms that are formed as a result of changing broadcasting concepts, will be analyzed using semi-structured interview technique in the perspective of flow theory.
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Ginger, Bradley. "Advanced Pollution Control for Gasification of Varied Opportunity Fuels." In 19th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec19-5432.
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Advances in gasification technology have opened up a number of commercial opportunities to generate energy from a wide range of non-traditional feed stocks. Gasification technology platforms from a number of providers are in development with the goal of creating modular solutions for supplying the energy needs of local communities, often in solutions as small as 10 to 20 MW increments. Such technologies offer potential project developers the ability to explore local opportunities for fuel supply from a number of sources. These opportunity fuels cover a wide range of potential energy sources as far reaching as recovered plastic, recovered tires, poultry litter, and a wide variety of woody biomass. The syn-gas produced from the gasification of such varied opportunity fuels contains a number of undesired trace components. These components will need to either be removed via gas conditioning, or alternatively be combusted with the syn-gas in an oxidation step which will produce a flue gas requiring air pollution control. Gas conditioning requirements vary depending on the desired end use of the syn-gas whether as a utility quality fuel or as an intermediate to a further chemical pathway. Flue gas target levels are defined by current environmental legislation. The potential pollutants produced in the flue gas pathway include Particulate Matter, Hydrogen Chloride, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfuric Acid Mist, and Oxides of Nitrogen. To ensure operational compliance of the system stack emissions both now and in the future, proper pollution control technology is paramount. This presentation will address an emerging air pollution control technology that embodies all of these removal steps in a single device specifically designed to meet current and expected future environmental needs. EISENMANN’s recently patented multi-pollutant control system, the Wet Electrostatic Precipitator Dual Field or WESP-2F, includes the use of a pre-scrubbing chamber for large PM, SO2, and water soluble NO2 removal. Following the quench and pre-scrubbing region, a specially tuned downflow wet ESP field is responsible for finer PM and Sulfuric Acid aerosol removal, as well as an important Ozone producing stage that oxidizes non-water soluble forms of NOx. As the gas continues to travel through the system, a secondary scrubbing chamber is used to further reduce NOx by scrubbing the newly formed NO2 that has been formed from the oxidation of other forms of NOx through the use of Ozone produced by the electrostatic precipitator. The final polishing stage of the system includes an upflow wet electrostatic precipitator field for the removal of newly oxidized material as well as any heavy metals present. Research and testing on the aforementioned system took place using a pilot sized unit operating a slipstream off a 20 MW commercial sized gasifier testing a number of opportunity fuels. Expected performance was validated proving high removal efficiencies for pollutants specifically addressed earlier. Results from a wide variety of opportunity fuels will be discussed. Current implementation of the technology in gasification projects following the flue gas pathway is underway and is currently viewed as an acceptable solution to the environmental regulations associated with the plant requirements.
Reports on the topic "Platforms of opportunity"
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Rasmussen, Lowell. Determining Optimal Performance in Adapting Onsite Electrical Generation Platforms to Operate on Producer Gas from Fuels of Opportunity. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), March 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1121736.
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Tiefenthaler, Brigitte. Evaluierung der Nationalen Vernetzungsplattformen des BMBWF. Technopolis Group - Austria, February 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2020.507.
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As part of the initiative "Strategic Networking Platforms in the Context of Major Societal Challenges", the BMBWF funded four networking platforms, starting in mid-2016: - Network Ageing - Ageing and Demographic Change as Challenge and Opportunity". - National networking platform for personalised medicine (ÖPPM) - National networking platform for "Sustainable Water Systems - National Networking Platform for "European and International Climate Agendas The three-year funding periods of these networking platforms will end in 2020 at the latest. Therefore, the EU and OECD Research Policy Division (Division V) responsible for the networking platforms OECD Research Policy (Department V/5) of the BMBWF commissioned Technopolis Group Austria to evaluate the National Networking Platforms of the BMBWF. The aim was to analyse what has been achieved so far and, on this basis, to develop recommendations for future work, both individually for each funded networking platform and for the design and management of the platform initiative itself by the BMBWF - with regard to the latter, the four funded networking platforms serve as pilot projects.
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Gaponenko, Artiom, and Denis Sergeev. Site «MLESYS – multilevel education Internet-system for teachers and students». Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, November 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/er0158.09112018.
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Site MLESYS (Multilevel education system) - multilevel educational Internet-system for the teachers (heads of scientific and educational groups) and the students (participants of groups) which allows teachers to create remote groups and also to form the storehouse of materials on their disciplines (lectures, manuals, presentations, tasks for independent work, etc.) with an opportunity of access to corresponding kinds of these materials by means of special links. Site MLESYS is developed on platform WordPress and on hosting Hostland. Site MLESYS allows: 1) for teachers: to create educational and scientific groups for remote communication of the participants of educational process, to include students in these groups; to place all necessary materials for the group (manuals, lectures, presentations, etc.); to form the storehouse of materials on each discipline (tests, tasks, cases, etc.), access to these materials can be carried out only by means of the link to the specific page; to communicate with participants of the group; 2) for the students: on condition of inclusion into remote group to have an opportunity to enter the group, to open and download the materials placed by the teacher; to get access to the materials by means of links (publications, tests, tasks, cases, etc.) of the corresponding teacher of a discipline from the storehouse of materials; to communicate with the teacher and participants of the group.
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African Open Science Platform Part 1: Landscape Study. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2019/0047.
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This report maps the African landscape of Open Science – with a focus on Open Data as a sub-set of Open Science. Data to inform the landscape study were collected through a variety of methods, including surveys, desk research, engagement with a community of practice, networking with stakeholders, participation in conferences, case study presentations, and workshops hosted. Although the majority of African countries (35 of 54) demonstrates commitment to science through its investment in research and development (R&D), academies of science, ministries of science and technology, policies, recognition of research, and participation in the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI), the following countries demonstrate the highest commitment and political willingness to invest in science: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In addition to existing policies in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), the following countries have made progress towards Open Data policies: Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda. Only two African countries (Kenya and South Africa) at this stage contribute 0.8% of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to R&D (Research and Development), which is the closest to the AU’s (African Union’s) suggested 1%. Countries such as Lesotho and Madagascar ranked as 0%, while the R&D expenditure for 24 African countries is unknown. In addition to this, science globally has become fully dependent on stable ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) infrastructure, which includes connectivity/bandwidth, high performance computing facilities and data services. This is especially applicable since countries globally are finding themselves in the midst of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), which is not only “about” data, but which “is” data. According to an article1 by Alan Marcus (2015) (Senior Director, Head of Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries, World Economic Forum), “At its core, data represents a post-industrial opportunity. Its uses have unprecedented complexity, velocity and global reach. As digital communications become ubiquitous, data will rule in a world where nearly everyone and everything is connected in real time. That will require a highly reliable, secure and available infrastructure at its core, and innovation at the edge.” Every industry is affected as part of this revolution – also science. An important component of the digital transformation is “trust” – people must be able to trust that governments and all other industries (including the science sector), adequately handle and protect their data. This requires accountability on a global level, and digital industries must embrace the change and go for a higher standard of protection. “This will reassure consumers and citizens, benefitting the whole digital economy”, says Marcus. A stable and secure information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure – currently provided by the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) – is key to advance collaboration in science. The AfricaConnect2 project (AfricaConnect (2012–2014) and AfricaConnect2 (2016–2018)) through establishing connectivity between National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), is planning to roll out AfricaConnect3 by the end of 2019. The concern however is that selected African governments (with the exception of a few countries such as South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and others) have low awareness of the impact the Internet has today on all societal levels, how much ICT (and the 4th Industrial Revolution) have affected research, and the added value an NREN can bring to higher education and research in addressing the respective needs, which is far more complex than simply providing connectivity. Apart from more commitment and investment in R&D, African governments – to become and remain part of the 4th Industrial Revolution – have no option other than to acknowledge and commit to the role NRENs play in advancing science towards addressing the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals). For successful collaboration and direction, it is fundamental that policies within one country are aligned with one another. Alignment on continental level is crucial for the future Pan-African African Open Science Platform to be successful. Both the HIPSSA ((Harmonization of ICT Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa)3 project and WATRA (the West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly)4, have made progress towards the regulation of the telecom sector, and in particular of bottlenecks which curb the development of competition among ISPs. A study under HIPSSA identified potential bottlenecks in access at an affordable price to the international capacity of submarine cables and suggested means and tools used by regulators to remedy them. Work on the recommended measures and making them operational continues in collaboration with WATRA. In addition to sufficient bandwidth and connectivity, high-performance computing facilities and services in support of data sharing are also required. The South African National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System5 (NICIS) has made great progress in planning and setting up a cyberinfrastructure ecosystem in support of collaborative science and data sharing. The regional Southern African Development Community6 (SADC) Cyber-infrastructure Framework provides a valuable roadmap towards high-speed Internet, developing human capacity and skills in ICT technologies, high- performance computing and more. The following countries have been identified as having high-performance computing facilities, some as a result of the Square Kilometre Array7 (SKA) partnership: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Zambia. More and more NRENs – especially the Level 6 NRENs 8 (Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and recently Zambia) – are exploring offering additional services; also in support of data sharing and transfer. The following NRENs already allow for running data-intensive applications and sharing of high-end computing assets, bio-modelling and computation on high-performance/ supercomputers: KENET (Kenya), TENET (South Africa), RENU (Uganda), ZAMREN (Zambia), EUN (Egypt) and ARN (Algeria). Fifteen higher education training institutions from eight African countries (Botswana, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania) have been identified as offering formal courses on data science. In addition to formal degrees, a number of international short courses have been developed and free international online courses are also available as an option to build capacity and integrate as part of curricula. The small number of higher education or research intensive institutions offering data science is however insufficient, and there is a desperate need for more training in data science. The CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science aim at addressing the continental need for foundational data skills across all disciplines, along with training conducted by The Carpentries 9 programme (specifically Data Carpentry 10 ). Thus far, CODATA-RDA schools in collaboration with AOSP, integrating content from Data Carpentry, were presented in Rwanda (in 2018), and during17-29 June 2019, in Ethiopia. Awareness regarding Open Science (including Open Data) is evident through the 12 Open Science-related Open Access/Open Data/Open Science declarations and agreements endorsed or signed by African governments; 200 Open Access journals from Africa registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); 174 Open Access institutional research repositories registered on openDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories); 33 Open Access/Open Science policies registered on ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies); 24 data repositories registered with the Registry of Data Repositories (re3data.org) (although the pilot project identified 66 research data repositories); and one data repository assigned the CoreTrustSeal. Although this is a start, far more needs to be done to align African data curation and research practices with global standards. Funding to conduct research remains a challenge. African researchers mostly fund their own research, and there are little incentives for them to make their research and accompanying data sets openly accessible. Funding and peer recognition, along with an enabling research environment conducive for research, are regarded as major incentives. The landscape report concludes with a number of concerns towards sharing research data openly, as well as challenges in terms of Open Data policy, ICT infrastructure supportive of data sharing, capacity building, lack of skills, and the need for incentives. Although great progress has been made in terms of Open Science and Open Data practices, more awareness needs to be created and further advocacy efforts are required for buy-in from African governments. A federated African Open Science Platform (AOSP) will not only encourage more collaboration among researchers in addressing the SDGs, but it will also benefit the many stakeholders identified as part of the pilot phase. The time is now, for governments in Africa, to acknowledge the important role of science in general, but specifically Open Science and Open Data, through developing and aligning the relevant policies, investing in an ICT infrastructure conducive for data sharing through committing funding to making NRENs financially sustainable, incentivising open research practices by scientists, and creating opportunities for more scientists and stakeholders across all disciplines to be trained in data management.