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"Sags uns"

Das 2009 gestartete Weblog Sags uns (www.tu-braunschweig.de/sagsuns) der TU Braunschweig versucht, Ideen, Lob, Kritik und Beschwerden aller Studentinnen und Studenten, Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Universität auf einer InternetPlattform zentral zu bündeln. Alle Beteiligten können mitschreiben, diskutieren und gemeinsam Verbesserungen für Studium und Lehre an der TU Braunschweig initiier...

Change Your Organization (For Peons)

In this experience report, a programmer at a medium-sized software company explains his tactics for bottom-up organizational change. The tactics are accompanied by personal recollections of related experiences. Tactics are presented in three primary sections: the difficulty of making change; getting attention; and making a case for change. A brief section on the consequences of change follows.

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The Phd Uns Digital Library

Many systems provide search and recommendation capabilities to scholars that search for scientific documents including research papers and dissertations. The appearance of search results may largely affect the system use. Traditional approaches provide textual formats for showing the results to users, whereas more recent approaches concentrate on other forms, e.g., on two dimensions. Moreover, ...

Voters, Dictators, and Peons: Expressive Voting and Pivotality

Why do the poor vote against redistribution? We experimentally examine one explanation, namely that individuals gain direct expressive utility from voting in accordance with their ideology and understand they are unlikely to be pivotal; hence, their expressive utility, even if arbitrarily small, determines their voting behavior. In contrast with a basic prediction of this explanation, we …nd th...