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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Information Flows"”.
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Measuring and modelling information flows in real-world networks
… thesis focuses on models which describe how the information which is passed around these complex systems influences how components interact and behave. To understand the dynamics of complex systems, models to estimate features of pairwise relationships and information flows are critical. Often, …
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Modeling information flows within a nuclear unity : a system dynamics approach
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1995.
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Information flows affecting coverage of medical research in the UK quality press
… aimed to describe and critically evaluate information flows about medical research affecting UK quality newspapers. It focused particularly on the transfer of information from peer reviewed medical journals. In-depth interviews were conducted with media relations personnel at key …
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Topology, Symmetry and Mechanics: Deciphering and Controlling information flows in a living cell
Living organisms collect, preserve and transform information on complex spatiotemporal bases. Take a living cell for instance, the signaling proteins are capable of forming patterns on lengths that are tens of thousands the molecular size. During force-generating processes such as cell divisions, …
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Scientific communication, information flows in industry - exemplified by pharmaceutical information in China & the UK
This study compare information flows in China and the UK with the example of pharmaceutical information. The general objective is to explore the relationship between information situation and the status of science and industry in a country. In China scientific information has long dominated …
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Tapping into the pulse of the market : essays on marketing implications of information flows
… with a plethora of new business models. The information flows created in the process poses both opportunities and challenges for marketers. On one hand, information flows captured online are usually easier to be stored and processed, thus empowering firms to be better informed about the …
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Simulation modeling of information flows in decision making processes for design-to-manufacturing strategies
Most successful manufacturing companies were initially formed around a unique or superior product design. As a result of this trend, many companies, especially in high-technology industries, considered design and marketing the company's primary functions. When the United States had superior …
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The value and role of food labels: three essays examining information flows in the food system for experience and credence attributes
… the role of food labels as means of conveying information about food product characteristics, with particular attention to experience and credence attributes. Unobserved product characteristics such as taste, food safety, nutrition, or quality are inherently difficult to quantify but are …
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Information flows in the context of EU policy-making : affiliation networks and the post-2012 reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy
Information flows in EU policy-making are heavily dependent on personal networks, both within the Brussels sphere but also reaching outside the narrow limits of the Belgian capital. These networks develop for example in the course of formal and informal meetings or at the sidelines of such …
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Studying Network Structural Changes Using Information Event Signatures
The diffusion of information is important: It impacts commerce. It influences government. It connects people in new ways. The distributed nature of our digital social networks means that traditional gatekeepers (newspapers, radio, television, and governments) lose some control over the flow of …
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Information Flow Matters: Improving Productivity Performance in Engineering and Construction
… to gain an understanding of the linkages between information flow and productivity and thereby to identify future directions for improving productivity performance. A mixed methods research approach is used, comprising of semi-structured interviews, surveys, observations and analyses of …
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Political Sophistication: How Values and Social Capital Contribute to Political Knowledge and Cognition
… to social capital characteristics that increase information flows which in turn will relate to increased political sophistication. On the other hand, it is expected that individual value types that emphasize "self-orientation" will positively relate to social capital characteristics that decrease …
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The role of information asymmetry and the level of market trading activity in shaping the time-to-maturity pattern of futures return volatility
… when the futures price becomes more sensitive to information flows. First, I empirically investigate Hong’s (2000) theoretical suggestion that information asymmetry has an impact on the time-to-maturity pattern of commodity futures return volatility (the “volatility pattern”) by testing the …
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Employee stock ownership: a microeconomic analaysis
… expected incentive effects on productivity and information flows in the firm, (3) the potential for participation in the oversight of the firm by stock owning employees, and (4) job and portfolio mobility considerations of employees. A review of existing studies of firms with employee stock …
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Compile-Time Analysis of Explicitly Parallel Programs
… inadequacy of control flow graphs to describe information flows in a parallel program, and the insufficiency of data dependences and control dependences to describe the constraints for a correct execution. Because of the difficulties in analyzing explicitly parallel programs, most compilers …
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… study considers how points of high leverage – information flows, system rules, system self-organisation, system goals, societal mindsets – can be targeted to bring about more meaningful and sustainable change in the education systems of the target countries. A key aim of the study was also to …
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… study considers how points of high leverage – information flows, system rules, system self-organisation, system goals, societal mindsets – can be targeted to bring about more meaningful and sustainable change in the education systems of the target countries. A key aim of the study was also to …
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Methods to Preserve Social Networks at Emergency Shelters
… this result dynamically, by assessing real-time information flows and readjusting recommended shelter locations mid-evacuation, all the while maintaining social connections tailored for each individual.
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Potential housing bubble with Chinese characteristics : analysis and policy design through an operational model
… explores the unique housing market structures, information flows, key agents and their decision-making processes, and the system constraints that may contribute to the bubble forming phenomenon. Its SD models differ from intensive data-driven economic models. They are structural, operational, …
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The informational feedback effect of stock prices on corporate disclosure
This paper studies whether managers use investor information they learn from the stock market when making forward-looking disclosures. Using annual management earnings forecasts from 1996 to 2010, I find that the association between forecast revisions and stock price changes over the revision …
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