Featurization and the Myth of Data Empowerment

Every day, we make a series of tradeoffs between privacy and convenience. We may check our email, post on social media, use the free Wi-Fi in public spaces, or take our cellphones with us wherever we go without a clear understanding of what information we are giving away when we do so. Increasingly, we are seeing products that claim to defy this opaqueness associated with big data and put users at the helm of their information. These featurized products wrap themselves in a data empowerment narrative, but ultimately erode individual privacy in new ways, sometimes even capitalizing on it. This article seeks to explore the concept of featurization further—where it came from, what it is, and how featurized products are currently being regulated. The article will end by proposing some recommendations for balancing the innovation that featurization can bring while ensuring individuals\u27 privacy rights are adequately protected

The charms of sex chromosomes in snakes

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Developing Research Capacity in Swiss Chiropractic Primary Care Through Practice-Based Research Networks

please see pdf, too long to copy her

Associate consultants’ experiences of complex psychological contracts and job crafting activities

The current literature on psychological contract and job crafting has neglected the self-employed working group. A mixed method study executed through a sequential explanatory design exploring the psychological contract of self-employed associate consultants in relation to job crafting activities and stakeholder management. Study 1 (Quant), the feasibility study, executed by a questionnaire, found associate consultants have a psychological contract with their client, end-user and colleague type individuals and are expected to apply their expert skills and knowledge thus executing job crafting activities whilst on an appointment. Study 2 (Qual) was executed by semi-structured interviews and specifically explored the complexities of the psychological contract for associate consultants in maintaining relationships with various stakeholders and how this impacts their job crafting activities. The focus is about associate consultants’ relationships which involve stakeholder management rather than just the service they provide. This study identified a multi-layered psychological contract which described features of relationship and reputation management which included going above and beyond and resolving breaches immediately to ensure effective delivery, along with a host of job crafting activities that are unique to associate consultants such as collateral crafting and target relational crafting, as they are a key factors in the evolution of the multi-layered psychological contract. The results of this study can be used to ascertain how associate consultants can be managed better by consultancy firms, clients and other bodies/individuals interacting with the associate consultants and how they can better engage with stakeholders and support delivery given the level of complexity they deal with in their daily work relationships

Index to The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies Vols 11-20 (2010-2019)

It presents the Index of the articles published in The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, Volume Nos. 11 to 20 [From 2010 to 2019]

Table of Contents

Table of Contents for Volume 2

Using Sacred Notions Of Time And Space To Map The Hidden Stories Of The Finch Hydro Corridor

The components of my MES portfolio largely draw on research that I have done over the past year in the MES program. The intention of the portfolio is to use different popular education and arts based methods to communicate this research to different audiences including members of the Jane-Finch community. The components of my final portfolio include: a walking tour, a series of postcards, a discussion of the takeover of the campus and community radio station CHRY 105.5FM, and two workshop presentations on the research I have done on the fossil fuel industry through the OPIRG-York working group Environmental Justice @ York. These different components use popular education and community arts methods to share the hidden and erased stories in the Finch Hydro Corridor. The components utilize a combination of visual, tactile and auditory tools to engage the different senses in the storytelling process. The components tell the same stories in different ways to engage different audiences and build greater awareness of the issues. Each of the components of my portfolio contributes to accomplishing different learning objectives in my plan of study that focus on the work of decolonization, environmental justice, popular education, and community arts

Low mass ratio vortex-induced motion

The vortex-induced motion of floating structures is strongly influenced by their low mass ratios (i.e. the ratio of structural to displaced fluid mass). It has previously been demonstrated that the super-upper response branch encountered in two-degree of freedom systems at low mass ratio is characterised by much larger vibration amplitudes than those of the corresponding upper response branch. These low mass ratio super-upper response branch vibrations are clearly of immense importance in the design and analysis of offshore structures. It was the purpose of the current study to experimentally investigate the vortex-induced response of cylindrical structures at low mass ratio with particular emphasis on the relative magnitude of the super-upper response branch vibration amplitudes. The experimental apparatus utilised, consisted of a parallel linkage mechanism allowing translation motion of the cylindrical test section in both the inline and transverse directions. The configuration employed ensured identical mass ratios and natural frequencies in both directions. The mass ratio range covered was nominally 2.4 to 13

L859F mutation in androgen receptor gene results in complete loss of androgen binding to the receptor

Androgens drive male secondary sexual differentiation and maturation. Mutations in the androgen receptor (AR) gene cause an array of abnormal sex differentiation phenotypes in humans, ranging from mild through partial to complete androgen insensitivity. Earlier, we reported a C3693T missense mutation in the AR gene in a familial case of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS), resulting in the replacement of a highly conserved leucine residue with phenylalanine (L859F) in ligand-binding domain (LBD) of the receptor. In silico analysis and the information from the crystal structure of AR-LBD indicated that the residue L859, located in helix 10 of AR protein, plays a significant role in overall architecture of the ligand-binding pocket. From this information we anticipated that the mutation might have resulted in the loss of the ligand binding to the receptor. In the present study, we have conducted the in vitro functional assays for this mutation. The mutation resulted in highly significant loss of the ligand binding to the receptor. The loss of ligand binding and subsequent AR function was confirmed by the transactivation assay, in which we observed very little activation of the reporter gene expressed under the control of the ligand-AR complex