Scholars have been investigating the quick emergence of digital platforms, essentially through the lens of digital native firms. If there is limited occurrence of platforms launched by incumbent firms such as Daimler (Car2Go, Moovel) or Johnson Controls (Panopix), the economics of their strategic responses through platforms by incumbents merit attention. This paper provides the first largescale...

This paper describes the Interactive Systems Laboratories’ automatic lecture transcription system for the Translanguage English Database (TED) corpus, which provides text-hypothesis for the International Workshop on Speech Summarization for Information Extraction and Machine Translation. Furthermore the paper gives a short analysis of speaking style characteristics, in particular addressing nat...

This study examined the role of the native language (L1) transfer in a non-native language (L2) acquisition of the there-insertion construction at the syntax-semantics interface. Specifically, the study investigated if Mandarin EFL learners would make overgeneralization errors in the situation where an L1 argument structure constitutes a superset of its L2 counterpart. Verbs of existence and ap...

The use of game elements in non-game contexts (gamification) -has previously been widely explored in contexts such as healthcare and marketing but less extensively in education and training. In this paper we explore the use of gamification in education and training. Traditional training methods often fail to engage or motivate students, especially Digital Natives raised from a young age with ap...

Objective: To assess the degree of metabolic control and the presence of type 2 diabetes complications in diabetic immigrants. Methods: Cross-sectional case-control observational study, matched by age and sex. Cases: Hindustani diabetic immigrants (n= 116) and non-hindustani (n= 113). Controls: native diabetic patients with type 2 diabetes (n= 229). The relation male/female was 6.7, 0.8 y 2, re...