43 research outputs found
Making the city my own: uses and practices of mobile location technologies for exploration of a new city
Structural Properties of Ego Networks
The structure of real-world social networks in large part determines the
evolution of social phenomena, including opinion formation, diffusion of
information and influence, and the spread of disease. Globally, network
structure is characterized by features such as degree distribution, degree
assortativity, and clustering coefficient. However, information about global
structure is usually not available to each vertex. Instead, each vertex's
knowledge is generally limited to the locally observable portion of the network
consisting of the subgraph over its immediate neighbors. Such subgraphs, known
as ego networks, have properties that can differ substantially from those of
the global network. In this paper, we study the structural properties of ego
networks and show how they relate to the global properties of networks from
which they are derived. Through empirical comparisons and mathematical
derivations, we show that structural features, similar to static attributes,
suffer from paradoxes. We quantify the differences between global information
about network structure and local estimates. This knowledge allows us to better
identify and correct the biases arising from incomplete local information.Comment: Accepted by SBP 2015, to appear in the proceeding
Providing Information on the Spot: Using Augmented Reality for Situational Awareness in the Security Domain
Endoscopic Removal of Loose Bodies of the Posterior Ankle Extra-articular Space Arising From Flexor Hallucis Longus Tenosynovial Osteochondromatosis
Exploring reasons and consequences of academic procrastination: an interview study
Grunschel C, Patrzek J, Fries S. Exploring reasons and consequences of academic procrastination: an interview study. European Journal of Psychology of Education. 2013;28(3):841-861.In the present study, we broadly investigated reasons and consequences of academic procrastination. Additionally, we explored whether students seeking help from student counselling services to overcome academic procrastination (counselling group) report more serious reasons and consequences of academic procrastination than students who procrastinate but seek no counselling support (non-counselling group). We conducted standardized interviews with university students (N = 36, of which 16 belonged to the counselling group) and analysed these using qualitative content analysis and frequency analysis. The reasons and consequences of academic procrastination, each summarized in a separate category system, were manifold. The category systems consisted of 20 main categories in total, subsuming 81 subcategories, of which 32 were inductively developed. The counselling group reported more serious reasons and consequences of academic procrastination than the non-counselling group. Our results suggest considering academic procrastination as a self-regulation failure and contribute to constructing interventions tailored to students' specific needs