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Neighbourhood effects on firm success and strategy
Neighbourhood Effects on Firm Success and Strategy As a result of economic transitions and several societal developments over the past 50 years, residential neighbourhoods have developed from being places where people predominantly live into places where people also work. A growing number of small- and medium-sized firms are located in residential neighbourhoods, many of which are home-based. Triggered by relatively high levels of turbulence in residential neighbourhoods and inter-locality variation in firm survival, firm growth and firm relocation, this study concerned whether and how neighbourhood characteristics influence the success of local firms and the strategic options of their entrepreneurs. The research demonstrates that some ‘neighbourhood effects’ on firm success and strategy do exist, especially for the growing group of solo entrepreneurs and firms in locally-oriented sectors. In particular the social context in which entrepreneurs are embedded matters, as cohesive neighbourhoods trigger both firm growth and entrepreneurial investments. Furthermore, the accumulation of liveability-related problems in disadvantaged neighbourhoods seems to contribute to an unfavourable business climate.
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Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7thInternational Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services(MobiCASE 2015) held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2015. The 16 full and 4poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions, and arepresented together with 4 papers from the First Workshop on SituationRecognition by Mining Temporal Information (SIREMETI 2015). The conferencepapers cover the following topics: intelligent caching, activity recognitionand crowdsourcing, mobile frameworks, middleware, interactive applications andmobility.
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Human-computer interaction : an empirical research perspective
Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI.The book begins with foundational topics including historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research.
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Advances in Intelligent IT
In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid scientific and technological developments in human-centered, seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices and systems with applications ranging from business and communication to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area of intelligent information technology and computer science that emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based computer system offers services that enable the rapid design, implementation, deploying and support of customized solutions. This book brings together papers from researchers from diverse areas, such as Web intelligence, data mining, intelligent agents, smart information use, networking and intelligent interface. The book includes papers on the following topics: Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces; Adaptive Web Systems and Information Foraging Agents; Web mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence; E-Commerce and Web Services; Data Mining, Ontology Mining and Data Reasoning; Network, Mobile and Wireless Security; Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media; Agent-Based Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems; Digital City and Digital Interactivity; Machine Learning and Human-Centered Robotics; Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis; Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their Interfaces; Smart Digital Media; and Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems.
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Figuring the past
This innovative analysis of period film presents a new way to examine the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. Exploring the relationship between visual motifs and cultural representation, Figuring the Past is a selection of detailed case studies that explore three key figures—the house, the tableau, and the letter. Belen Vidal proposes a new aesthetic framework for the study of period film, looking at a number of important auteurs in the genre, including James Ivory, Martin Scorsese, and Jane Campion. This handsomely illustrated book seeks to position this popular but often understudied genre in its proper place within the academic discipline of cinema studies.
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Toward Better Usability, Security, and Privacy of Information Technology
Despite many advances, security and privacy often remain too complex for individuals or enterprises to manage effectively or to use conveniently.Security is hard for users, administrators, and developers to understand, making it all too easy to use, configure, or operate systems in ways that are inadvertently insecure.
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Wearable sensors : fundamentals, implementation and applications
Written by industry experts, this book aims to provide you with an understanding of how to design and work with wearable sensors.Together these insights provide the first single source of information on wearable sensors that would be a valuable addition to the library of any engineer interested in this field.Wearable Sensors covers a wide variety.
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More Than Screen Deep
The national information infrastructure (NII) holds the promise of connecting people of all ages and descriptions-bringing them opportunities to interact with businesses, government agencies, entertainment sources, and social networks. Whether the NII fulfills this promise for everyone depends largely on interfaces-technologies by which people communicate with the computing systems of the NII.
More Than Screen Deep addresses how to ensure NII access for every citizen, regardless of age, physical ability, race/ethnicity, education, ability, cognitive style, or economic level. This thoughtful document explores current issues and prioritizes research directions in creating interface technologies that accommodate every citizen's needs.
The committee provides an overview of NII users, tasks, and environments and identifies the desired characteristics in every-citizen interfaces, from power and efficiency to an element of fun. The book explores:
Technological advances that allow a person to communicate with a computer system.
Methods for designing, evaluating, and improving interfaces to increase their ultimate utility to all people.
Theories of communication and collaboration as they affect person-computer interactions and person-person interactions through the NII.
Development of agents: intelligent computer systems that \"understand\" the user's needs and find the solutions.
Offering data, examples, and expert commentary, More Than Screen Deep charts a path toward enabling the broadest-possible spectrum of citizens to interact easily and effectively with the NII. This volume will be important to policymakers, information system designers and engineers, human factors professionals, and advocates for special populations.
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Towards Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011.The 25 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and 8 student papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions.
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