This article scrutinizes and reconceptualizes covert research in social science. Surveying recent literature about this method, we reflect on the ethical safety implications stemming from widespread, even if well-intended, lack of transparency characterizing many projects, especially ones conducted difficult contexts. While standard definition holds that researchers deliberately do not declare ...

Resources and services are accessible in pervasive computing environments from anywhere and at any time. Also, due to ever-changing nature of such environments, the identity of users is unknown. However, users must be able to access the required resources based on their contexts. These and other similar complexities necessitate dynamic and context-aware access control models for such environmen...

Historic contexts remind us of an era when cities were built based on the needs, goals, and preferences of their inhabitants. In other words, the mental world of both the builders and the inhabitants was closely interrelated. But by ignoring citizens' memories and interests and their mental needs, today's interventions with rapid developments within historic contexts have led to amnesia and the...

It's no easy task to identify strategies for entering new international markets or to decide which countries to do business with. Many firms simply go with what they know-and fall far short of their goals. Part of the problem is that emerging markets have "institutional voids": They lack specialized intermediaries, regulatory systems, and contract-enforcing methods. These gaps have made it diff...

Cross-culturally, most music is tonal in the sense that one particular tone, called the tonic, provides a focus around which the other tones are organized. The specific organizational structures around the tonic show considerable diversity. Previous studies of the perceptual response to Western tonal music have shown that listeners familiar with this musical tradition have internalized a great ...

Service offers within a trader can be grouped into contexts. By associating each context with a membership rule, traders can be federated in a transparent manner without compromising heterogeneity and autonomy. In addition, context views can be defined to provide importers with an individualised view of the search offer space. Keyword Codes: C.2.4

In this paper I argue that in addition to supporting multiple cores, future microprocessor designs should decouple cores from caches and TLBs and support multiple, run-time selectable hardware memory contexts per core. Multiple memory contexts would allow the operating system and other threads to run without polluting each others’ cache and TLB contexts, reduce coherence traffic, and enable bet...

Service offers within a trader can be grouped into contexts. By associating each context with a membership rule, traders can be federated in a transparent manner without compromising heterogeneity and autonomy. In addition, context views can be defined to provide importers with an individualised view of the search offer space. Keyword Codes: C.2.4

Intersecting neo-institutional and acculturation theory, this paper investigates how national ideologies inform attitudes towards modest fashion, comparing the United Kingdom French contexts. Modest an emerging market phenomenon with roots in conservative notion of ‘modesty’, has been a controversial cultural flashpoint. We analyze public discourse fashion using UK press media articles through ...

The onset of COVID-19 resulted in the adoption various measures such as lockdowns and alcohol bans. These interventions were new unprecedented way they impacted drinking experiences across contexts. impact other restrictions non-Western contexts remains unknown. Little is known about how strict prohibition drinkers. Using grounded theory methods from an study based Botswana with drinkers ( n = ...