Qualitative content analysis is commonly used by social scientists to understand the practices of the groups they study, but it is often infeasible to manually code a large text corpus within a reasonable time frame and budget. To address this problem, we are building a software tool to assist social scientists performing content analysis. We present our semi-automatic system that leverages nat...

Abstract The world is currently facing a wave of data centre construction. Fuelled by an explosion production and the emergence edge computing, our cities are witnessing materialisation new architectural typologies that increasingly convolute notions digital bodily distinction. Whilst last 2 decades have seen proliferation separate human post-human urban environments, here we consider agency pe...

background: to compare the effectiveness of basnef and classic educational models to improve the assertion skill level of high school boy students. methods: the 60 high school male students from shiraz city, fars province iran, were participated in this study. they were randomly divided in two groups (groups a and b). the group a attended in designed educational planning based on basnef model a...

This study investigates the peer effects of worker productivity among knowledge workers who interact through digital communication channels. We draw on social and developmental network research to examine the performance of 248 knowledge workers and their 1,027 email contacts. The average performance of contacts in a digital communication network relates positively to employee performance: Inte...