In: Proceedings of 10th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci’18) Amsterdam, 27-30 May 2018
Enterprise crowdsourcing capitalises on the availability of employ-ees for in-house data processing. Gamification techniques can help aligning employees’ motivation to the crowdsourcing endeavour. Although hitherto, research efforts were able to unravel the wide arsenal of gamification techniques to construct engagement loops, little research has shed light into the social game dynamics...
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In: Comptes rendus Mathematique
We construct simply connected smooth manifolds M of dimension 4k ≤ 8 with the following properties: the second homotopy group π₂(M) is finite, M admits a smooth action by the circle S¹ and the Â-genus Â(M) is non-zero.
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In: International Journal of Human - Computer Studies
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The standard theory of lexicalization patterns in the encoding of motion events (STLP in the remainder of this chapter; cf. Talmy 1985; Slobin 1996b; Talmy 2000, 2009) has been used in such a great number of research projects in the past two decades that its extensive introduction is superfluous. However, in this contribution I argue that that some of the claims of ‘mainstream’ STLP research...
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In: Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences Du Langage
This paper discusses current language policy debates on national and immigrated languages in Switzerland. Problems with the principle of territoriality, which represents a locally monolingual regime in an officially quadrilingual country, and other issues related to the legal status of languages are discussed. The proportional representation of the national minorities and the use of their...
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In: Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes. Recontextualizing Language and Linguistics
This study investigates the impact of French corpus planning efforts in two semantic domains, telecommunication and sport. Lists of Anglicisms and their French counterparts pertaining to these two domains are used in a corpus study using the Google Books corpus. A method to explore this corpus diachronically is proposed, and analyses assessing the odds of encountering the ‘official’ French...
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The present study constitutes an investigation of tobacco consumption, related attitudes and individual differences in smoking or non-smoking behaviours in a sample of adolescents of different ages in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. We investigated three school-age groups (7th-grade, 9th-grade and the second-year of high school) for differences in attitude and social and cognitive...
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In: Journal of Statistical Mecanics, Theory and Experiment (2008) L04004
We explore the effect of discounting and experimentation in a simple model of interacting adaptive agents. Agents belong to either of two types and each has to decide whether to participate a game or not, the game being profitable when there is an excess of players of the other type. We find the emergence of large fluctuations as a result of the onset of a dynamical instability which may arise...
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We report activity data analysis on several open source software projects, focusing on time between modifications and on the number of files modified at once. Both have fat-tailed distributions, long-term memory, and display systematic non-trivial cross-correlations, suggesting that quiet periods are followed by cascading modifications. In addition the maturity of a software project can be...
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