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Article
Publication date: 27 January 2012

Felipe Mata, José Luis García‐Dorado, Javier Aracil and Jorge E. López de Vergara

This study aims to assess whether similar user populations in the Internet produce similar geographical traffic destination patterns on a per‐country basis.

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Purpose

This study aims to assess whether similar user populations in the Internet produce similar geographical traffic destination patterns on a per‐country basis.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors collected a country‐wide NetFlow trace, which encompasses the whole Spanish academic network. Such a trace comprises several similar campus networks in terms of population size and structure. To compare their behaviors, the authors propose a mixture model, which is primarily based on the Zipf‐Mandelbrot power law to capture the heavy‐tailed nature of the per‐country traffic distribution. Then, factor analysis is performed to understand the relation between the response variable, number of bytes or packets per day, with dependent variables such as the source IP network, traffic direction, and country.

Findings

Surprisingly, the results show that the geographical distribution is strongly dependent on the source IP network. Furthermore, even though there are thousands of users in a typical campus network, it turns out that the aggregation level which is required to observe a stable geographical pattern is even larger.

Practical implications

Based on these findings, conclusions drawn for one network cannot be directly extrapolated to different ones. Therefore, ISPs' traffic measurement campaigns should include an extensive set of networks to cope with the space diversity, and also encompass a significant period of time due to the large transient time.

Originality/value

Current state of the art includes some analysis of geographical patterns, but not comparisons between networks with similar populations. Such comparison can be useful for the design of content distribution networks and the cost‐optimization of peering agreements.

Article
Publication date: 1 October 1997

Kathryn Brown and Brian H. Kleiner

States that the financial services industry has become one of the USA most visible players in the tough, new competitive era. What worked for corporations in the past has been…

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States that the financial services industry has become one of the USA most visible players in the tough, new competitive era. What worked for corporations in the past has been re‐engineered; re‐evaluated, reprocessed, and reinvented in hopes of entering this new era with an edge on competition. Presents three corporate strategies of today′s banking industry’s “heavy‐hitters”. Each corporation has a strategy unique to its corporate culture, but all of these banking corporations have the same desire: to be the customer’s number one choice for their banking products and services. Customers equal profitability, and profitability equates to future success and prosperity. The banking industry has witnessed an evolution from the old way of doing business. With this evolution comes new possibilities in all facets of the business environment. Helps to illustrate how each corporation is “rising to the occasion” and developing their own unique strategies to remain a successful and profitable player in the banking game.

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Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, vol. 7 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0960-4529

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Legal Professions: Work, Structure and Organization
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-76230-800-2

Article
Publication date: 1 June 1995

Harold Lazarus and James Shanahan

Begins with lessons organizations can learn from teamwork exhibitedby geese. Presents research findings and examples of team games that areused to reduce labor turnover, increase…

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Begins with lessons organizations can learn from teamwork exhibited by geese. Presents research findings and examples of team games that are used to reduce labor turnover, increase sales, market share, and profits. In addition to demonstrating the benefits of games and teamwork, displays the costs associated with a lack of teamwork.

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Team Performance Management: An International Journal, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-7592

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Article
Publication date: 25 October 2021

Donna Ellen Frederick and Donna Ellen Frederick

The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether preprint servers are a disruptive technology for science, librarians or information seeking among the general population.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether preprint servers are a disruptive technology for science, librarians or information seeking among the general population.

Design/methodology/approach

This column explores what preprint servers are, how they are used in the world of science, how their usage changed in response to the deluge of COVID-19 related research papers and how they might impact the work of librarians and society in general.

Findings

Preprint servers are not a highly disruptive technology, but they do challenge both scientists and librarians to understand them better, use the information they find on them with care and educate society in general on topics such as peer review and the importance of using well-vetted, good quality science in making important decisions.

Originality/value

Up until the past year and a half, only a small segment of the librarian profession needed to be concerned with preprint servers. With the increasing presence of references to non-peer-reviewed articles from preprint servers in popular media reports, most librarians now need to know something about this technology. It is also useful to consider how the technology might benefit and create challenges for their work.

Book part
Publication date: 12 December 2022

Michael W. Raphael

The question facing sociology is whether it is a field or a discipline. If it is a field, then there is no need for theorizing. However, if sociology is a discipline, then…

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The question facing sociology is whether it is a field or a discipline. If it is a field, then there is no need for theorizing. However, if sociology is a discipline, then problem-solving cannot be disentangled from theorizing without a loss of intelligibility – the inability to explain the social as the concept of the discipline. Through the quasi-realism of problem-solving as a course of activity, this chapter presents cognitive sociology as a paradigm appropriate to the concept of the social understood as an ongoing course of activity. In doing so, it is shown how bounded rationality and expertise play a crucial role in how communication interacts with the division of cognitive labor, especially through the idea of representational representationality. Representational representationality is an idea that reveals how the degree of clarity among language, meaning, and thought is relative to the issues of audience and ignorance. Representational representationality is significant because it demonstrates how the relationship among meaning, language, and thought is subject to communicative errors – errors arising from a predicament of intelligibility and not merely arising from issues of computational skill, as described by Herbert Simon's model of bounded rationality and expertise in human problem-solving. The argument that follows from this shows how the means for adapting to ambiguity amounts to the difference between Simon's model and a quasi-real model in terms of its principle of rationality, principle of efficiency, and its cognitive style of problem-solving for deliberate practice. These dimensions are shown to effect what “examples” are good for in the problem-solving process, thereby revealing the politics of expertise. The politics of expertise demonstrates how the conflicts in sociological explanations of strategy are not merely conflicts that can be set aside as a pluralism of values. Rather, the conflicting explanations of theory and theorizing can only be resolved when the situational rationality of sociology as a discipline realizes the quasi-realism of problem-solving as a course of activity.

Book part
Publication date: 13 December 2018

Seán Kerins and Kirrily Jordan

The historian Patrick Wolfe reminds us that the settler colonial logic of eliminating native societies to gain unrestricted access to their territory is not a phenomenon confined…

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The historian Patrick Wolfe reminds us that the settler colonial logic of eliminating native societies to gain unrestricted access to their territory is not a phenomenon confined to the distant past. As Wolfe (2006, p. 388) writes, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” In the Gulf of Carpentaria region in Australia’s Northern Territory this settler colonial “logic of elimination” continues through mining projects that extract capital for transnational corporations while contaminating Indigenous land, overriding Indigenous law and custom and undermining Indigenous livelihoods. However, some Garawa, Gudanji, Marra, and Yanyuwa peoples are using creative ways to fight back, exhibiting “story paintings” to show how their people experience the destructive impacts of mining. We cannot know yet the full impact of this creative activism. But their body of work suggests it has the potential to challenge colonial institutions from below, inspiring growing networks of resistance and a collective meaning-making through storytelling that is led by Indigenous peoples on behalf of the living world.

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Environmental Impacts of Transnational Corporations in the Global South
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78756-034-5

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Publication date: 19 July 2016

MOROCCO: AU bid aims to end diplomatic isolation

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES212475

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 1 April 1999

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Work Study, vol. 48 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Advances in Librarianship
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-12024-616-8

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