this study tries to expand the understanding of the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation at the organizational level. this research proposes a conceptual framework to explain the components of transformational leadership while focusing on the relationship between each component and organizational innovation. a sample of 219 managers from 63 companies in...

This paper reports on a study of the relationship between acoustic-prosodic variation and discourse structure, as determined from an independent model of discourse. We present results of two pilot studies. Our corpus consisted of three AP news stories recorded by a professional speaker. Discourse structure was labeled by subjects either from text alone or from text (with all or-thographic marki...

It is hard to find a class of natural language phenomena which exhibits more complex interactions between syntax and semantics than comparative constructions. Comparatives come with phrasal or clausal complements. In this paper, we focus on phrasal comparatives, which on first inspection look simpler than the clausal ones, but in fact add a degree of complexity. We will consider predicative com...

Three meanings of “information” are distinguished: “Information-as-process”; “information-as-knowledge”; and “information-as-thing,” the attributive use of “information” to denote things regarded as informative. The nature and characteristics of “information-asthing” are discussed, using an indirect approach (“What things are informative?“). Varieties of “informationas-thing” include data, text...

A compiler generator called Metauncle is introduced. Metauncle produces one-pass compilers in which all attributes are evaluated in conjunction with LR parsing. The description of a language is given to Metauncle as an L-attributed grammar, and the system transforms it before generation of an evaluator to another attribute grammar satisfying the requirements for evaluation. The transformed gram...

Participation of people is the most important factor in providing high quality of service in participatory sensing applications. In this paper we study monetary incentives in order to stimulate user’s participation, especially in applications that rely on real-time data. Providing such incentives is hard because the service provider cannot determine the price at which each user would be willing...