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Looking a gift horse in the mouth.
A while ago I watched ‘Grumpy Old Men’ on the ABC and I winced several times throughout the episode as I realised that I, too, have become a grumpy old man. Th e articles I write refl ect this. In fact, I think I have created a new writing genre – ‘Grumpy’. Th is time I’m grumpy about the obscene amount of money that is squandered in education. Recently the government gave out millions of dolla...
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A commonly cited maxim states that “you get what you pay for”, implying that there is a strong correlation between the price paid for something, and its quality. In this paper, we examine whether this often-cited wisdom applies to using crowdsourcing for conducting subjective QoE experiments, and if so, how. As part of a large-scale user study designed to assess Web QoE, we conducted two crowds...
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CONTEXT Throughout the last decade a number of studies have been conducted to examine academic-industry research relationships. However, to our knowledge, no studies to date have empirically examined academic scientists' experience with research-related gifts from companies. OBJECTIVE To examine the frequency, importance, and potential implications of research-related gifts from companies to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/345563a0