The “Customer” is Not Always Right: Third-Party Sexual Harassment in Libraries

Party Pooper: Third-Party Libraries in Android

Third-party libraries (3PLs), such as advertising networks, gaming networks, and analytics engines, are an integral part of modern mobile platforms. If Android developers want to integrate functionality provided by 3PLs, they must bundle opaque binary code into their applications. Unfortunately, developers must in essence overprivilege their Android applications by requesting dangerous permissi...

Is the Customer Always Right? The Potential for Racial Bias in Customer Evaluations of Employee Performance

With the encouragement of marketing scholars, many companies are tying employee incentives to customer ratings of satisfaction, service quality, or employee performance. One potential drawback to these practices is that customers' evaluations of employees—and, therefore, any associated rewards—may be biased by employee race. This possibility was examined in a restaurant setting. We found that c...

self-revision and third party revision in translation

اهمیت این پژوهش در آن بود که به گفت? بسیاری از پژوهشگرانِ حوز? بازبینی ترجمه، ادبیات موجود در این زمینه به لحاظ نظری و عملی چندان قوی نیست و بخش های موجود نیز برداشت مناسبی از این مرحل? فرایند ترجمه ندارند، اگرچه اخیراً توجه به آن به صورت نظام مند افزایش یافته است. در عین حال، پژوهش های موجود از یک سو بر دگربازبینی بیشتر از خودبازبینی تأکید دارند و از دیگر سو تنها به لحاظ نظری به این موضوع می پرد...

Is the customer always right? End-user services in a networked age

Is Third Party Certification Necessary?

Developing software systems that are composed in total or in part from software components over which the developer has little control presents difficulties not yet addressed by componentbased software engineering research. Among the problems associated with such component-based development is the potential for a component developer to misrepresent the quality of components. It is therefore par...