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Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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an overview of network analysis techniques and discusses their implementation in the VC context. A simple example illustrating network analysis is presented in the Appendix. Section II describes our data. In Section III, we analyze the effect of VC networking on fund performance. Section IV examines
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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/consumption, experience, and power, as expressed in meaningful interaction framed by culture. By Information Age I refer to a historical period in which human societies perform their activities in a technological paradigm constituted around microelectronics-based information/communication technologies, and genetic
The Dialogic Turn: Dialogue for deliberation
- In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies
, 2009
"... Much of current debate on deliberative democracy verses on the difficulty of bridging the gap between normative theory and practical development. This article argues that, in order to bridge that gap and facilitate deliberative scenarios, more attention must be paid to the sociological core of deli ..."
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story of a communication process in which a colleague from our Dialogue Research Project 5 took part. The case started with a local plan to build a new secondary school in Portobello, Edinburgh. The process unfolded strong polemics around several aspects of the plan and its implementation, including
A Cloud-based Exploration of Open Data: Promoting Transparency and Accountability of the Federal Government of
"... The Open Data movement has become more popular since governments such as USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand decided to open up much of their public information. Data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute it. The main benefits that a government can obtain from Open Data include tra ..."
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transparency, participation and collaboration. The aim of this research is to promote transparency and accountability of the Federal Government of Australia by using Cloud-related technologies to transform a set of publicly available data into human-friendly visualizations in order to facilitate its analysis
Design and Implementation for an Android based Massively Multiplayer Online Augmented Reality Game Entwurf und Implementierung für ein Android basiertes Massively Multiplayer Online Augmented Reality Game
, 2014
"... Hiermit versichere ich, die vorliegende Master-Thesis ohne Hilfe Dritter nur mit den an-gegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmitteln angefertigt zu haben. Alle Stellen, die aus Quellen entnommen wurden, sind als solche kenntlich gemacht. Diese Arbeit hat in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch keiner Prüfungsbeh ..."
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Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, den 28th February 2014 (Denis Lapiner) This Master’s Thesis proposes and implements a game design for an Android based massively multiplayer online augmented reality game. The proposed game design is based on an analysis of other popular aug-mented reality games
22.10.2009 Implementation of a Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game with Realtime Requirements
"... Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become increasingly popular in the recent years, particularly in the form of online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games support up to several ten thousand players interacting in a virtual game world. The current commercially successful games are ..."
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Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become increasingly popular in the recent years, particularly in the form of online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games support up to several ten thousand players interacting in a virtual game world. The current commercially successful games
What do learners and pedagogical agents discuss when given oppportunities for open-ended dialogue
- Journal of Educational Computing Research
, 2013
"... Researchers claim that pedagogical agents engender opportunities for social learning in digital environments. Prior literature, however, has not thoroughly examined the discourse between agents and learners. To address this gap, we analyzed a data corpus of interactions between agents and learners u ..."
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Researchers claim that pedagogical agents engender opportunities for social learning in digital environments. Prior literature, however, has not thoroughly examined the discourse between agents and learners. To address this gap, we analyzed a data corpus of interactions between agents and learners
Understanding of Anesthesia Machine Function is Enhanced with a Transparent Reality Simulation
, 2007
"... Introduction: Photorealistic simulations may provide efficient transfer of certain skills to the real system, but by being opaque may fail to encourage deeper learning of the structure and function of the system. Schematic simulations that are more abstract, with less visual fidelity but make syste ..."
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dynamics. A multivariate 2 ϫ 2 factorial ANOVA was performed on these data. The Transparent-VAM groups tended to report higher confidence in their answers than did the Opaque-VAM groups, but the overall effect of simulation type was not significant in the multivariate test (Hotelling's T ϭ 0.169, F(4
Efficient Management of Data Center Resources for Massively Multiplayer
"... (MMOGs) can include millions of concurrent players spread across the world. To keep these highly-interactive virtual environments online, a MMOG operator may need to provision tens of thousands of computing resources from various data centers. Faced with large resource demand variability, and with m ..."
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, and with misfit resource renting policies, the current industry practice is to maintain for each game tens of self-owned data centers. In this work we investigate the dynamic resource provisioning from external data centers for MMOG operation. We introduce a novel MMOG workload model that represents the dynamics
Künstliche Intelligenz für ein Massively Multiplayer Online Game
"... Hiermit versichere ich, die vorliegende Bachelor-Thesis ohne Hilfe Dritter nur mit den angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmitteln angefertigt zu haben. Alle Stellen, die aus Quellen entnommen wurden, sind als solche kenntlich gemacht. Diese Arbeit hat in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch keiner Prüfungsbe ..."
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Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, den 31st March 2011 Applying the peer-to-peer architecture to massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) is a concept that until now didn’t reach any commercial game. The idea of creating a game that allows players to play MMOG over a peer-to-peer system is a great step
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