Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being.pdf - 0 views
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such as interest,engagement and meaning,
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subjective well-being is taken to be:2Good mental states, including all of the various evaluations, positive and negative, that peoplemake of their lives, and the affective reactions of people to their experiences
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“subjective well-being is an umbrella term for the different valuationspeople make regarding their lives, the events happening to them, their bodies and minds,and the circumstances in which they live”.
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Klick's Intranet System - Genome - Wins SuperNova Award | Klick Health - 1 views
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Genome harnesses the data-driven and social technology used in online experiences like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, eBay and Match.com and applies them to how you work
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs - STRIKE! - 1 views
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financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations
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provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries, or for that matter the whole host of ancillary industries (dog-washers, all-night pizza deliverymen) that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones
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It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is exactly what is not supposed to happen
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Forget the Foundations - In These Times - 0 views
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Their “actions” didn’t involve writing grant proposals, discussing their concerns with a board of directors or contacting state agencies. They tested water samples themselves, and, in 1979, produced a study revealing high levels of radioactive contamination, a high percentage of pregnancies complicated by excessive bleeding or terminated in abortion and large numbers of children born with birth defects. Despite their work, the Centers for Disease Control and Indian Health Services discredited the study, and WARN wasn’t vindicated until the South Dakota School of Mines substantiated their claims that same year.
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But unlike Erin Brockovich, this tale of local activists fighting against faceless institutions doesn’t have a happy ending: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission simply raised the level of “acceptable contamination,” and Indian Health Services started providing bottled water in one area. Congress authorized a new water pipeline to the reservation in 2002–only to have the funding diverted by the financial demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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who defer responsibility onto do-nothing organizations, only later to complain about their lack of agency
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Conference on smart sensors - nondestructive evaluation |SPIE Smart Structures/NDE - 0 views
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Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems
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Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies
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Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems Integration
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Goodbye, Dilbert: 'The Rise of the Naked Economy' » Knowledge@Wharton - 2 views
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“teaming”: bringing together a team of professionals for a specific task
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The old cubicle-based, static company is increasingly being replaced by a more fluid and mobile model: “the constant assembly, disassembly, and reassembly of people, talent, and ideas around a range of challenges and opportunities.”
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Therefore, the new economy and its “seminomadic workforce” will require “new places to gather, work, live, and interact.”
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Photosynq - An Open Reseach Project - 0 views
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Been looking at this project too...seems like a good way that we might be able to get a better handle on how our jasmine rice grows over the 5-6 month growing season, how the plant performs in different soil types, the impact of increasingly variable rainfall on plant health, and perhaps being in a better position to be able to more accurately forecast yields and eventual seed quality.
Collaborations: The rise of research networks : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 0 views
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Co-authorship has been increasing inexorably3, 4. Recently it has exploded.
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Collaboration is normally a good thing from a wider public perspective. Knowledge is better transferred and combined by collaboration, and co-authored papers tend to be cited more frequently
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The first paper with 1,000 authors was published in 2004
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The New Normal in Funding University Science | Issues in Science and Technology - 1 views
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Government funding for academic research will remain limited, and competition for grants will remain high. Broad adjustments will be needed
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he sequester simply makes acute a chronic condition that has been getting worse for years.
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the federal budget sequester
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Designing the Void | Management Innovation eXchange - 0 views
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This is about self-organization, putting in place bounderies and internal mechanisms to make the the system self-organize into something desirable. You can see this from a game theory perspective - how to set a game which will drive a specific human behavior.
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This is about self-organization, putting in place bounderies and internal mechanisms to make the the system self-organize into something desirable. You can see this from a game theory perspective - how to set a game which will drive a specific human behavior.
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Very similar to SENSORICA, an environment of entrepreneurs. The argument against this is that not everyone is a risk taker or has initiative. The answer to it is that not every role in the organization requires that.
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Very similar to SENSORICA, an environment of entrepreneurs. The argument against this is that not everyone is a risk taker or has initiative. The answer to it is that not every role in the organization requires that.
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The system is not made up of artifacts but rather an elegantly designed void. He says “I prefer to use the analogy of rescuing an endangered species from extinction, rather than engaging in an invasive breeding program the focus should be on the habitat that supports the species. Careful crafting of the habitat by identifying the influential factors; removing those that are detrimental, together with reinforcing those that are encouraging, the species will naturally re-establish itself. Crafting the habitat is what I mean by designing the void.”
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How The Blockchain Will Transform Everything From Banking To Government To Our Identities - 1 views
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The first generation of the Internet was a great tool for communicating, collaborating and connecting online, but it was not ideal for business. When you send and share information on the Internet, you’re not sending an original but a copy. That’s good for information — it means people have a printing press for information and that information becomes democratized — but if you want to send an asset, it’s a problem. If I send you $100 online, you need to be sure you have it and I don’t, and that I can’t spend the same $100 somewhere else. As a result, we need intermediaries to perform critical roles — to establish identity between two parties in a transaction, and to do all the settlement transaction logic, which includes record-keeping.
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With blockchain, for the first time, we have a new digital medium for value where anyone can access anything of value — stocks, bonds, money, digital property, titles, deeds — and even things like identity and votes can be moved, stored and managed securely and privately. Trust is not established though a third party but with clever code and mass consensus using a network. That’s got huge implications for intermediaries and businesses and society at large
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And also with government, as a central repository of information an entity that delivers services.
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Towards a Material Commons | Guerrilla Translation! - 0 views
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the modes of communication we use are very tightly coupled with the modes of production that finance them
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I’m focused on the policy formation around this transition to a new, open knowledge and commons-based economy, and that’s the research work I’m doing here
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The problem is I can only make a living by still working for capital.
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