Noise annoyance has caused significant adverse impacts on human beings and numerous efforts have been spent on mitigating annoyance problems. Natural greenery has been shown to be able to moderate annoyance problems at home but this conclusion was drawn without properly controlling the potential confounding factors. Furthermore, few have explored the moderation effect of a sea view. Accordingly...

Research suggests that marginalized social media users face disproportionate content moderation and removal. However, when is removed or accounts suspended, the processes governing are largely invisible, making assessing bias difficult. To study this bias, we conducted a digital ethnography of on Reddit’s /r/FTM subreddit Twitch’s “Just Chatting” “Pools, Hot Tubs, Beaches” categories, observing...

Application of e-learning tools highly modifies tutors’ requirement profiles. Once teachers deploy regular tutors as e-tutors, further competencies (e-skills) are needed to be able to coach students within academic settings. Most publications about education and training to qualified e-tutors show either unique or rather restrictive requirements or are highly extensive and therefore can’t be ap...

More than 80 percent of the decline in the variance of aggregate output since 1984 is accounted for by a decline in the covariance (and correlation) of output among industries that hold inventories. Using a HAVAR macro model (Fratantoni and Schuh 2003) with only two sectors, manufacturing and trade, we show that this decline in comovement – and thus much of the Great Moderation in aggregate and...

The internet has become a central medium through which ‘networked publics’ express their opinions and engage in debate. Offensive comments and personal attacks can inhibit participation in these spaces. Automated content moderation aims to overcome this problem using machine learning classifiers trained on large corpora of texts manually annotated for offence. While such systems could help enco...

Given that psychopathy is associated with narcissism, lack of insight, and pathological lying, the assumption that the validity of self-report psychopathy measures is compromised by response distortion has been widespread. We examined the statistical effects (moderation, suppression) of response distortion on the validity of self-report psychopathy measures in the statistical prediction of theo...

Online interactions are becoming commonplace for a multitude of educational purposes. Each context presents a unique and dynamic mix of variables that combine to shape the practice and the identities of those involved. In this article, sociocultural theories of learning and sociocultural theories of technology are explored as a way to view and to map the complex interactions that can occur. The...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a file system based distributed authoring mechanism for use among campus-wide wireless workgroups. We use long term wireless user availability traces from an university to evaluate prior groupware systems. We show that earlier systems would have performed poorly, especially during peak availability durations when many group members were simu...

On-line journalistic sites publish several news and stories every day. Readers of these sites may comment a story, and, as a consequence, a single story might receive thousands of comments. The quality of these comments may vary a lot, from spams and trolls to truly useful information. Separating good from bad comments is an important task, and is the primary goal of comment moderation. Moderat...

This study examines the moderation effects of corporate governance provisions on the link between family involvement (i.e., family ownership and family management) in publicly-traded firms and firm performance by drawing upon agency theory, with a focus on principal-principal agency issues, and the extant family governance literature. We develop and test the hypotheses on 386 of the S&P 500 fir...