This paper examines the changing methods, underlying motives, clienteles and controversy surrounding posthumous commemorations of Lord Lister in Britain. The importance of the commemorations for professional identity formation continues throughout the twentieth century, but World War I appears as a turning point. The constituencies commemorating Lister change from broadly international, nationa...

INTRODUCTION Definition The funding of projects by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people via the Internet through virtual platforms is known as crowdfunding. It is also known as crowd financing, equity crowdfunding or crowd-sourced fundraising. A t p r e s e n t , i t i s b e c o m i n g consolidated as a source to get funds to finance ventures without access to trad...

Management sometimes exploits the quest of shareholders for higher return on equity capital, by taking advantage of accounting rules gaps or violating them. The Beneish earnings detection manipulation model, is an attempt to reveal such illegal or at least unethical practices. Evidence regarding the use of “creative” accounting practices, based on that model, during the massive equity fund rais...

In this paper, I give an analysis of neg-raising inferences as scalar implicatures. The main motivation for this account as opposed to a presupposition-based approach (Bartsch 1973 and Gajewski 2005, 2007) comes from the differences between presuppositions and neg-raising inferences, noticed by Gajewski (2005, 2007) and Homer (2012). In response to this issue, Gajewski (2007) argues that neg-ra...

In (1a), the transitive verb verkaufen has been fronted, leaving its complement, the NP das Pferd, behind. In (1b), the AP stolz is topicalized without its PP argument auf seine Kinder. And in (1c), the NP ein Buch has been fronted, leaving its PP complement über Syntax behind. In De Kuthy and Meurers (1998, 1999b) we showed that such cases of partial constituent fronting can successfully be an...

This work proposes an approach for alert raising within a real-time data warehouse environment. It is based on the calculation of confidence intervals for measures from historical facts. As new facts arrive to the data warehouse on a real-time basis, they are systematically compared with their appropriate confidence intervals and alerts are raised when anomalies are detected. The interest of th...

Inspired by the human immune system, and in particular the negative selection algorithm, we propose a learning mechanism that enables the detection of abnormal activities. Three detectors for detecting abnormal activity are generated using negative selection. Tracks gathered by people’s movements in a room are used for experimentation and results have shown that the classifier is able to discri...

Researchers have obtained conflicting results about the role of prosocial motivation in persistence, performance, and productivity. To resolve this discrepancy, I draw on self-determination theory, proposing that prosocial motivation is most likely to predict these outcomes when it is accompanied by intrinsic motivation. Two field studies support the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation moderat...

Although core self-evaluations have been linked to higher job performance, research has shown variability in the strength of this relationship. We propose that high core self-evaluations are more likely to increase job performance for other-oriented employees, who tend to anticipate feelings of guilt and gratitude. We tested these hypotheses across 3 field studies using different operationaliza...