Individual Strategy and Cultural Regulation in Nuaulu Hunting

Smart spaces provide a platform for cooperative service construction by many devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) environments. When a service is constructed the service needs delivering to appropriate clients, which is typically implemented using the subscription operation (i.e., information-driven service construction). The passive form of subscription is ineffective in the IoT settings since the centralized solution—smart space information broker—needs to control all service construction updates and to notify all interested clients. This article considers the problem of active control for information-driven service construction when each client can use its own (individual) strategy to (additionally) control ongoing updates in the subscribed information. Five strategies for active control are selected for this study. For some simplified assumptions, analytical estimates are provided. For close-to-real evaluation of the strategies a simulation model is developed, based on which several performance metrics are experimentally studied.

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A Maturity Level-Based Assessment Tool to Enhance the Implementation of Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12093559 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (9) ◽

pp. 3559 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Erwin Rauch ◽

Marco Unterhofer ◽

Rafael A. Rojas ◽

Luca Gualtieri ◽

Manuel Woschank ◽

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Keyword(s):

Field Study ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Assessment Model ◽

Manufacturing Companies ◽

Research To Practice ◽

Maturity Level ◽

The Past ◽

Industrial Companies ◽

Individual Strategy

Industry 4.0 has attracted the attention of manufacturing companies over the past ten years. Despite efforts in research and knowledge transfer from research to practice, the introduction of Industry 4.0 concepts and technologies is still a major challenge for many companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Many of these SMEs have no overview of existing Industry 4.0 concepts and technologies, how they are implemented in their own companies, and which concepts and technologies should primarily be focused on future Industry 4.0 implementation measures. The aim of this research was to develop an assessment model for SMEs that is easy to apply, provides a clear overview of existing Industry 4.0 concepts, and supports SMEs in defining their individual strategy to introduce Industry 4.0 in their firm. The maturity level-based assessment tool presented in this work includes a catalog of 42 Industry 4.0 concepts and a norm strategy based on the results of the assessment to support SMEs in introducing the most promising concepts. For testing and validation purposes, the assessment model has been applied in a field study with 17 industrial companies.

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Male territorial vocalizations and responses are decoupled in an avian hybrid zone

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2008.0046 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 363 (1505) ◽

pp. 2879-2889 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Paula M den Hartog ◽

Hans Slabbekoorn ◽

Carel ten Cate

Keyword(s):

Hybrid Zone ◽

Acoustic Signals ◽

Hybrid Zones ◽

Natural Hybrid ◽

Individual Male ◽

Individual Strategy ◽

Intraspecific Communication ◽

Selective Sensitivity ◽

Species Specific ◽

Male Signals

A core area of speciation research concerns the coevolution of species-specific signals and the selective sensitivity to such signals. Signals and responses to them should be tuned to each other, to be effective in intraspecific communication. Hybrid zones are ideal to study the presence of such ‘behavioural coupling’ and the mechanisms governing it, and this has rarely been done. Our study examines acoustic signals of males and their response to them in the context of territorial interactions in a natural hybrid zone between two dove species, Streptopelia vinacea and Streptopelia capicola . Male signals are important in hybrid zone dynamics as they are essential for territory establishment, which is crucial for successful reproduction. We tested whether the response of individual male hybrids is linked to how similar their own signal is to the playback signal. We did not find evidence for behavioural coupling. The combined evidence from the low level of response to hybrid and heterospecific signals outside the hybrid zone and a lack of coupling within the hybrid zone suggests that perceptual learning may explain our results. Learning to respond to locally abundant signals may be the best individual strategy and is likely to contribute to the maintenance of a hybrid zone.

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Censorship and Ethnographic Film: Confronting State Bureaucracies, Cultural Regulation, and Institutionalized Homophobia in India

Visual Anthropology Review ◽

10.1111/var.12122 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 62-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Harjant S. Gill

Keyword(s):

Ethnographic Film ◽

Cultural Regulation

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Happy Hour and Social Lubrication: Evidence on Mood-Setting Rituals of Drinking Time

Journal of Drug Issues ◽

10.1177/002204269302300303 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 389-407 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

James D. Orcutt

Keyword(s):

Baseline Period ◽

Diary Data ◽

Cultural Regulation ◽

Subsequent Period ◽

Social Drinking ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

Mood Enhancement ◽

Dispositional Measure ◽

Theoretical Analyses ◽

Experimental Comparisons

This study employs a combination of questionnaire and diary data to examine positive emotional changes that a sample of 328 students experienced during routine episodes of social drinking. Quasi-experimental comparisons of participants versus nonparticipants in weekday or weekend evening drinking events reveal two basic patterns of change in drinkers' ratings of situational affect. Participants in weekday drinking events — in contrast to weekend drinkers — show a transitional pattern of reduction in stress from a predrinking baseline period to the subsequent period when they began to drink. Increases in sociable affect emerge within the context of both weekday and weekend drinking events, but this contextual pattern of mood enhancement is especially prominent at certain times among drinkers who score relatively high on a dispositional measure of sociability. These results support theoretical analyses of the cultural regulation and mood-setting functions of social drinking rituals.

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