‘Where else is the money? A study of innovation in online business models at newspapers in Britain’s 66 cities’

Much like their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere, British newspaper publishers have seen a sharp decline in revenues from traditional sources—print advertising and copy sales—and many are intensifying efforts to generate new income by expanding their online offerings. A study of the largest circulation newspapers in the 66 cities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland showed that while only a small minority did not have companion websites, many of the publishers who do have an online presence have transferred familiar revenue models. It has also been recognised that income from these sources is not enough to sustain current operations and innovative publishers have diversified into additional broad categories of Web business models. Significantly, this study did not only compare the approaches of various news publishers with each other, but it also considered how active newspaper publishers were in taking advantage of the variety of business models generally being employed on the Web—and which opportunities were ignored

The Return of Inequality

Review Article Inequality, Growth, and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization G A Cornia (ed), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 Inequality in Latin America and the Carribbean: Breaking with History? D de Ferranti, G Perry, F Ferreira, & M Walton, Washington, DC: World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies, The World Bank, 2004 Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality B Milanovic, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005 Equity and Development: World Development Report 2006 World Bank, New York: The World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2005 University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP), Under the leadership of Prof James K Galbraith, http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/

Gay People Are Living There: Reaching Out Beyond the Cities

Evaluates the 2008 Out In Africa Satellite Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Mafikeng, South Africa. Describes the challenges and impact of bringing queer films to isolated, mainly black and poor, gay and lesbian communities and strengthening local groups

Discriminant analysis under the common principal components model

For two or more populations of which the covariance matrices have a common set of eigenvectors, but different sets of eigenvalues, the common principal components (CPC) model is appropriate. Pepler et al. (2015) proposed a regularised CPC covariance matrix estimator and showed that this estimator outperforms the unbiased and pooled estimators in situations where the CPC model is applicable. This paper extends their work to the context of discriminant analysis for two groups, by plugging the regularised CPC estimator into the ordinary quadratic discriminant function. Monte Carlo simulation results show that CPC discriminant analysis offers significant improvements in misclassification error rates in certain situations, and at worst performs similar to ordinary quadratic and linear discriminant analysis. Based on these results, CPC discriminant analysis is recommended for situations where the sample size is small compared to the number of variables, in particular for cases where there is uncertainty about the population covariance matrix structures

Letter from Geraldine Ferraro to an Aspiring Journalist in Italy

Letter from Geraldine Ferraro to an aspiring journalist in Italy.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/1338/thumbnail.jp

Improving CE with PDM

The concept of Concurrent Engineering (CE) centers around the management of information so that the right information will be at the right place at the right time and in the right format. Product Data Management (PDM) aims to support a CE way of working in product development processes. In specific situations, however, it is hard to estimate the contribution of a particular PDM package to CE. This paper presents a method to assess the contribution to CE of a PDM package in a specific situation. The method uses the concept of information quality to identify the gap with CE information quality requirements. The contribution of PDM to bridge this gap is estimated. Decisions on improvement actions are supported to improve readiness for PDM as well as to improve CE. The method has been tested in a real-life situation

Mobile learning: research findings - report to Becta, July 2007

Research and development project on impact on learning of 1:1 access to handheld device