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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Social good"”.
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New Spatio-temporal Hawkes Process Models For Social Good
As more and more datasets with self-exciting properties become available, the demand for robust models that capture contagion across events is also getting stronger. Hawkes processes stand out given their ability to capture a wide range of contagion and self-excitation patterns, including the …
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Connecting for a Social Good: A Multi-level Analysis of a Nascent Online Community
… case study of AshokaHub, a nascent global OC of social entrepreneurs, combining interview data with qualitative and quantitative data from the AshokaHub platform. Despite favourable conditions at AshokaHub’s launch and a re-launch with new functionality and curation strategies, user contributions …
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Explainable AI for Social Good: Applications in Mental Health, Public Health Risk, and Environmental Traceability
… AI technology in human-centered domains such as social networks, public health, sustainable trade, and environmental forensics indicates a significant need for an adaptive, interpretable, and generalizable approach in predictive modeling. With the increasing availability of user-generated data, …
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REPURPOSING DEEPFAKES FOR SOCIAL GOOD: THEORY, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, AND AI SYSTEMS FOR BIAS MEASUREMENT AND MITIGATION
… can be transformed into powerful instruments for social benefit when guided by rigorous methodological frameworks.
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Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards: A Holistic Analysis
… on assets and return on equity) as well as social good rationales (i.e. bolstered corporate social responsibility and reduced fraud) to validate their enactment. Advocates further gloss over a moral justification rooted in a broad notion of equality, although more heavily relying on …
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ImpactScore: A Novel Credit Score for Social Impact
Socially motivated lenders pursue lending that considers both financial return and social good, yet they lack a systematic tool to incorporate such considerations into their decisions. This paper proposes the application of credit scoring mechanisms not only to the likelihood of default but also to …
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Socially Responsible Investing : a comparative analysis of environmental, social, governance, reputational and labor factors
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) aims to deliver competitive investment returns while fostering social good. It aims achieves its objective by including a firm's corporate social performance (CSP) in its investment d s . I has giesgnfct momentum over the past few years and is poised to assume a …
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) : responsibility or Innovation? : an analysis of the feedback between CSR activities and the expectations placed upon corporations
… corporate behavior in order to define corporate social responsibility (CSR). It answers the question: Can corporations tie corporate social responsibility to the profit-making mission, and, if so, how? We define CSR as the actions that exceed the expectations placed upon the corporation. We …
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How are professional football player transfers taxed in South Africa
… as the development of young players is social good which should be encouraged and rewarded.
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Social Design, Field Studies, Sustainable Development: How Design Research Methods have been Applied to Fieldwork Study and Enable Sustainable Community Development in Three Case Studies
… goal of this study is to explore the meaning of Social Design through design research, investigate appropriate methods for fieldwork study within this context, and seek ways in which design can bring about sustainable community development. In the process of conducting the research, some key …
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The transformative potential of human rights : the human right to water and the courts
… enjoyment of the full catalogue of economic and social rights.<br/><br/>Water service provision creates a number of potential conflicts and this thesis examines the tension between the market forces governing water as an economic good, and the provision of water a basic social good. The economic …
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An Examination of the Bio-Philosophical Literature on the Definition and Criteria of Death: When is Dead Dead and Why Some Donation After Cardiac Death Donors Are Not
… Transplantation saves lives and is a social good that society ought to continue to support. The aim of this dissertation is not to denigrate the field. On the contrary, if donation is to thrive we must ensure that our definition and criteria for death are coherent and that the methods …
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Growth strategy for hybrid organizations : balancing economic, environmental, and social impacts
… of for-profit companies with the commitment to social good of non-profit organizations. This structure enables them to address social problems in an economically sustainable manner and to capitalize on consumer demand for responsibly-made products. While hybrids must strike a delicate balance to …
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"It's Like Professional Food": Sustaining Urban Educators Through Service-Learning
… and practices that emphasize competition and social efficiency rather than more holistic understandings of education as a civic and social good. Findings show how and why urban educators’ professional and personal commitments are intertwined with beliefs about social justice and democracy. …
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Innovating Government the Open Way: Modeling the Open Data Ecosystem
… driving economic development, and advancing social good. Despite significant investment in data infrastructure and technology, many open data initiatives struggle to effectively engage stakeholders or deliver on their intended outcomes. Thus, this dissertation targets the research question: …
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The Poetics of sensory-spatial experience in varieties of leisure consumption and the diversity of cultural ecology.
… of a cultural and artistic nature as a social 'good' or utopian ideal. Such an orientation, prevalent in post-industrial cultures, confers worth to understanding the dimensions of cultural diversity required, and benefits being sought from variously extant leisure realms. The …
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Corporate social responsibility: the way forward for development
With Corporate Social Responsibility coming to prominence over the last few decades, business has become a central player in the sphere of development. The business case for CSR, by far the most dominant argument for CSR, suggests that CSR is the answer to social ills, injustice and poverty, but …
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Better the data you know : developing youth data literacy in schools and informal learning environments
… are using open and public data to innovate for social good. Meanwhile, the educational and informational resources to enable individuals to understand this data remain scarce. Individuals and communities are often unaware of the data being collected about them, the data they are contributing, …
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Political artifacts and personal privacy : the Yenta multi-agent distributed matchmaking system
Technology does not exist in a social vacuum. The design and patterns of use of any particular technological artifact have implications both for the direct users of the technology, and for society at large. Decisions made by technology designers and implementors thus have political implications …
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Students' Perspective on the Purposes of Engineering Higher Education: A longitudinal qualitative case study of the U.S. and England
… to educating citizens and contributing to the social good. With the rise of universities functioning in a market economy, and navigating higher education institutions' public role, some of the university purposes are constantly debated, and often without accounting for the students' …
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