Social Influence Modeling on Smartphone Usage Masaji Katagiri1‚2 and Minoru Etoh1‚3 1 R&D Center‚ NTT DOCOMO‚ Inc. Yokosuka‚ Kanagawa‚ 239-8536 Japan katagirim@nttdocomo.co.jp‚ etoh@ieee.org Graduate School of Information Science and Technologies‚ Osaka University Suita‚ Osaka‚ 565-0871 Japan 3 Cybermedia Center‚ Osaka University Toyonaka‚ Osaka‚ 560-0043 Japan 2 Abstract. This paper presents a probabilistic influence model for smartphone usage; it applies a latent group model to social influence
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SOCIAL WORK AND ITS EFFECT ON POVERTY Mahatma Gandhi once said‚ “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” South African families and communities are facing many challenges. This essay will focus on poverty as one of the challenges in some South African families and communities in general. Using the issue of poverty‚ will clarify and give a better understanding on how‚ social workers could respond to this matter. In the international definition of social work‚ “the social work profession
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religious freedom. They settled in New England and a majority of their population lived in Massachusetts Bay. In contrast to other English colonists‚ they came to North America to create a pure Christian society that emphasized the community and family aspects of life. Most other colonists‚ such as the ones living in the Chesapeake region‚ came to the New World in search of economic gain. In 1630 to the 1660’s‚ Puritan values and ideas had a considerable impact in New England on politics‚ by establishing
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struggling to fight off local competition but the only advantage that they were there first before Coca-Cola. The reentry of coca-cola in the market had its disadvantages and of course that was Pepsi co was there first their applications was approved and coke was turned down. 3- Coca-cola made special promotions during the summer season such as ”buy one- get one free” and lucky draws. Coca –cola used a strategy of “building a connect” by using local idioms. They also reduced prices by 15% to 25% in
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Essay – factors that influence pro-social behaviour What is pro-social behaviour? It is the voluntary actions that are intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals. This definition refers to the consequences of a person’s actions‚ motivations and their behaviour; behaviours which include a broad range of activities: sharing‚ comforting‚ rescuing‚ and helping. But there are a many different factors that influence this behaviour‚ that affect one’s decision to give‚ share
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particularly with the new generations X and Y. The basic purpose of this paper is to show that the development of medias and new technologies have a great influence on the Generation Gap. All these improvements have widened the gap between two particulars generations‚ the Baby Boomers and their grandchildren who compose the generation Y. In the following pages we will first look at the characteristics of these two different generations; then we will examine how the new technologies have influenced
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Assignment 2: focus on the learner 1- Background to the learner: My student is called Samir Salem Abdullah Al-Ahsani. He is an Omani student working as an employee in the Bouhelba Company. He speaks Arabic which is his mother tongue and a little English. He’s at the elementary level at Polyglot Institute. He first studied English in the Omani public schools where he didn’t learn much according to him. He felt he couldn’t respond ‚when talked to in English‚ and needs to improve his speaking
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STUDY You are a qualified accountant in practice‚ and you lead a team providing management consultancy services. In recent years your practice has undertaken several assignments on manufacturing efficiency improvements for a medium-sized‚ quoted group of companies. It operates through a number of divisions‚ but line responsibility appears complicated‚ and so significant control rests with four semi-autonomous regional directors. The authority of these directors is enhanced by their seats on the
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all-purpose exercises mentioned in the introduction‚ especially JOURNAL READINGS‚ ONE STUDENT’S STORY‚ POEMS‚ CARTOONS‚ FOCUS QUESTIONS‚ AND CHAPTER-OPENING SUMMARIES. Remind students to use letters to label any in-class writing they do in their journals. Case Study for Critical Thinking: Popson’s Dilemma Purpose: To develop critical thinking skills by exploring a real-life situation that revolves around self-motivation. Supplies and Setup: “Popson’s Dilemma” in On Course Directions: 1
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Social Networking’s Effects on Society Are Social networking sites negatively affecting our society as a whole? Currently‚ some media sources are claiming social networking sites like Facebook having a negative effect on society. Social networking sites should be used to the minimum as possible‚ if it was not used as much the society could have a lot more free time‚ less bullying‚ and even less social. Even though many businesses can say it is good for the society in a way where people can get more
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