Publications des institutions partenaires
Toward Mobile Web 2.0-based Business Methods: Collaborative QoS-information Sharing for Mobile Service Users
Mobile service providers (MoSPs) emerge, propelled by ubiquitous availability of mobile devices and wireless communication infrastructures. MoSPs' customers satisfaction and consequently their revenues, largely depend on the quality of service (QoS) offered by wireless network providers (WNPs) at a particular location and time of a mobile service usage. This chapter presents a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
La différence entre les genres dans le processus d'adoption d'un logiciel de dessin à partir du modèle de l'acceptabilité des nouvelles technologies (TAM)
Ce mémoire porte sur les différences entre les genres sur l'adoption des nouvelles technologies en utilisant le modèle TAM (technology acceptance model), nous analysons ces différentes variables et le genre. De plus, nous avons redéfini le modèle du TAM, en y intégrant certaines variables supplémentaires que nous avons trouvé dans la littérature traitant du TAM et de ces...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2009
Switzerland's Flexible Integration in the EU: A Conceptual Framework
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Switzerland in the European Research Area: Integration Without Legislation
From the point of view of modes of governance and constellations of interdependence, EU research policy offers ideal conditions for the flexible inclusion of non-member states: it is based on transgovernmental coordination through policy networks rather than supranational legislation, it follows scientific rather than political imperatives, and cooperation is in the interest of both...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
The External Governance of EU Internal Security
This article analyses the modes of governance through which the EU seeks to ensure the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) countries’ participation in the realization of its internal security project. Although the EU, given the strong interde- pendence in these ‘soft security’ issues, has strong incentives to govern by conditionality in order to ensure the ENP countries’ compliance,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Protest and the forum: forms of participation in the global justice movement
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Why are social movement organizations deliberative? Structural and cultural determinants of internal decision making in the global justice movement
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
State and Civil Society Responses to Unemployment: Welfare, Conditionality and Collective Action
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Welfare States, Labour Markets, and the Political Opportunities for Collective Action in the field of Unemployment: A Theoretical Framework
As sociological neo-institutionalist theories have shown, social and political institutions are not only a set of rules, procedures, organizational routines and governance structures (see March and Olsen 1984), but they also provide norms and habits that determine individual choices and behaviours. in this chapter, we would like to apply this line of reasoning to propose a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe
Different European nation-states use the most diverse statistical con- structions of foreign origin or ethnic minority populations. Several countries traditionally even shun from producing such data. This makes international comparison a very difficult endeavour. Anyone wanting to perform comparative research on immigrants or (immigrant origin) ethnic minorities in Europe is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Protest Politics in a Changing Political Context: Switzerland, 1975-2005
This article analyses if and how recent changes within the Swiss political system have influenced different aspects of protest politics (e.g. level, issues, action repertoires, and transnationalization). We argue that opportunities for mobilization have emerged in recent years due to changes in the institutionalized political context and that these changes have at least partially led...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
The Policy Impact of Social Movements: A Replication Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article reanalyzes the data of a previous study on the policy impact of antinuclear, ecology, and peace movements in three countries with the aim of replicating its findings. Our goal is to see whether using a different analytical technique will yield similar results. The previous study used a regression approach to time-series analysis. Here, we use qualitative comparative...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Democracy from below: Activists and institutions
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Assessing multivariate predictors of financial market movements : a latent factor framework for ordinal data
Much of the trading activity in Equity markets is directed to brokerage houses. In exchange they provide so-called “soft dollars,” which basically are amounts spent in “research” for identifying profitable trading opportunities. Soft dollars represent about USD 1 out of every USD 10 paid in commissions. Obviously they are costly, and it is interesting for an institutional investor to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
One Sided Cross Validation for Density Estimation
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
A robust coefficient of determination for Regression
To assess the quality of the fit in a multiple linear regression, the coefficient of determination or R2 is a very simple tool, yet the most used by statistics users. It is well known that the classical (least-squares) fit and coefficient of determination can be arbitrary misleading in the presence of a single outlier. In many applied setting, the assumption of normality of the error...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Robust estimation of constrained covariance matrices for Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a data analysis procedure that is widely used in social and behavioral sciences in general and other applied sciences that deal with large quantities of data (variables). The underlying model links a set latent factors, that are supposed to correspond to latent concepts, to a larger set of observed (manifest) variables through linear regression...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Zero-inflated Truncated Generalized Pareto Distribution for the Analysis of Radio Audience Data
Extreme value data with a high clump-at-zero occur in many domains. Moreover, it might happen that the observed data are either truncated below a given threshold and/or might not be reliable enough below that threshold because of the recording devices. This situations occurs in particular with radio audience data measured using personal meters that record environmental noise every...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
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