What makes entrepreneurial learning difficult: cognitive conflicts or cultural clashes?

What Makes APIs Difficult to Use?

Use of APIs is an inseparable part of software development today. But programmers often find difficulties in using those APIs in client code [27]. This reduces programmers' productivity as well as quality of the client code [30]. Therefore, APIs should be implemented to have high usability, and to this extent a good understanding of what makes APIs difficult to use demands the foremost importan...

What makes a categorization task difficult?

To understand why some categorization tasks are more difficult than others, we consider five factors that may affect human performance--namely, covariance complexity, optimal accuracy level with and without internal noise, orientation of the optimal categorization rule, and class separability. We argue that covariance complexity, an information-theoretic measure of complexity, is an excellent p...

What Makes a Region Entrepreneurial? Evidence from Britain

Metaphor comprehension : What makes a metaphor difficult to understand ?

Comprehension difficulty was rated for metaphors of the form Noun1-is-aNoun2; in addition, participants completed frames of the form Noun1-is-________ with their literal interpretation of the metaphor. Metaphor comprehension was simulated with a computational model based on Latent Semantic Analysis. The model matched participants’ interpretations for both easy and difficult metaphors. When inte...

Odontogenesis - a Masterful Orchestration of Functional Redundancy or What Makes Tooth Bioengineering an Intrinsically Difficult Concept

Rapid increase of knowledge in stem cell research, bioengineering technology and molecular basis of odontogenesis has finally lead us to the point where it is possible to develop approaches for treatment of tooth loss with bioengineered teeth, which one day might completely replace conventional prosthodontics and dental implants. By holding onto the premise that in order to bioengineer teeth, f...