The Web 2.0 is often characterized by an informal participation, which means a free cooperation of as many as possible without any restraints from organizations, processes, or technical platforms. In contrast to public communities, an official organization like a company consists of rather formal structures which define what a member should do and how to fulfill a task by assigning a role. If s...

Title of Dissertation: IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP ON CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE GROUPS Steven Lawrence Johnson, Doctor of Philosophy in Information System Directed by: Associate Professor Samer Faraj, McGill University; Professor Hank Lucas, Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies Online groups formed by volunteer members are increasingly recognized as sources of innovati...

Thomson Legal and Regulatory participated in the CLIR task of the NTCIR-5 workshop. We submitted formal runs for monolingual retrieval in Japanese and Korean, as well as for bilingual English-to-Japanese retrieval. We employed enhanced tokenization for our Japanese and Korean runs and applied a novel selective pseudo-relevance feedback scheme for Japanese. Our bilingual search participation was...

This paper summarizes our participation in the CLEF-NEWSREEL 2014 Challenge. The challenge focused on the recommendation of news articles. UNED’s participation is in the “Recommend news articles in real-time” task. To address the recommendation tasks, a Formal Concept Analysis framework is proposed to first create the recommendation models and second to compute the recommendations. Our results ...

This qualitative study assessed clients' participation in organizational decision making in a public long-term psychiatric hospital. Numerous examples were found in which clients meaningfully participated in the decision-making process and achieved favorable policy changes. Three means of involving clients were found to be especially useful: (1) using a consumer council, (2) involving clients i...

Results The adolescents' experiences of coercion show a wide variation that didn't correspond very well with the formal situation. Coercion was experienced in many ways and was also valued quite differently with respect to the impact of the treatment in their lives. The adolescents' experience of participation in the planning of the treatment was very sparse. The requirements for participation ...

To a large extent, established formal participation schemes fail to deliver on their promise of transferring substantial power tenants, while self-organized housing remains niche for those who have strong inclination and ample resources. Given the rise renting in Europe, intensifying crisis, increasing tenants’ ontological security by allowing them meaningful influence is urgent important. Self...