Using data from large-scale establishment surveys in Britain and France, we show that incentive pay for non-managers is more widespread in France than in Britain. We explain this finding in terms of the ‘beneficial constraint’ arising from stronger employment protection in France, which provides an impulse to develop incentive pay; employer networking activities in France, which facilitate join...

This paper presents a bio-inspired networking strategy to support the cooperation between static sensors on the ground and mobile sensors in the air to perform surveillance missions in large areas. The goal of the proposal is to provide low overhead in the communication among sensor nodes, while allocating the mobile sensors to perform sensing activities requested by the static ones. Simulation...

objective: research related to induce pluripotent stem (ips) cell generation has increased rapidly in recent years. six transcription factors, namely oct4, sox2, c-myc, klf4, nanog, and lin28 have been widely used for ips cell generation. as there is a lack of data on intra- and inter-networking among these six different transcription factors, the objective of this study is to analyze the intra...

the ability to develop and maintain an effective network is one of the entrepreneurial competencies. despite recognition of the value of networking, there has been little research into the networks of female entrepreneurs. current evidences indicate the differences between men and women’s networking and in part, women’s weakness to creat and maintain entrepreneurial networking compared to that ...

Social networking sites have become increasingly popular destinations for people wishing to chat, play games, make new friends or simply stay in touch. Furthermore, many organizations have been quick to grasp the potential they offer for marketing, recruitment and economic activities. Nevertheless, counterclaims depict such spaces as arenas where deception, social grooming and the posting of de...

This article introduces a youth-initiated practice: online social networking that is transforming our society in important ways and has vast implications for research concerning online behavior, the social and psychological aspects of online learning and the institution of education. In this paper, the author introduces the socio-technical features that characterize social networking systems an...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are two emerging and complementary concepts that can be considered as key players in the virtual networks world. In particular, SDN allows managing different network services through abstraction of higher-level functionality, while NFV leverages the use of virtualization technologies to virtualize specific network funct...

Children are a major user group of today’s internet, mostly focusing on its social applications like social networking sites. Their online activities are not entirely without risk, as is demonstrated by the presence of online predators, who misuse its potential to search for and contact them with purposes in the area of sexual abuse. In this chapter we investigate the presence of these predator...

As the Internet evolved, social networks (such as Facebook) have bloomed and brought together an astonishing number of users. Mashing up mobile phones and sensors with these social environments enables the creation of people-centric sensing systems which have great potential for expanding our current social networking usage. However, such systems also have many associated technical challenges, ...

As the population of Facebook users continues to grow, companies are paying increasing attention to the influence of social networks to promote brands. They are using this emerging platform to carry out marketing activities. However, fewer studies have actually discussed the benefit which brands could attain by operating on a social networking site. Therefore, this study aims to understand the ...