Collective institutional work: the case of Airbnb in Amsterdam,London and New York

ABSTRACT

Given that online platforms disrupt established industries and challenge existing institutions, they can only be successful if their innovation becomes both legal and legitimate. This requires ‘institutional work’ that changes perceptions and regulations within society. Rather than only focussing on the online platform as the sole agent engaging in institutional work, our study analyses institutional work as a collective process. We investigate the case of home-sharing platform Airbnb and the process of institutional change its introduction prompted regarding short-term rental in Amsterdam, London and New York. We find, contrary to the popular view of online platforms as disruptive entrepreneurs, that the platform mainly focusses on creating new institutions rather than disrupting existing ones, and that users and non-users undertake most of the institutional work activities. We also show that different types of actors carry out different types of institutional work suggesting that the process of institutional work is highly distributed.     

实验室网络教学资源与人才培养创新理论的研究

实验室网络教学资源与人才培养创新理论的研究,要灵活多样,寻求多种途径,利用虚拟实验室及网络等现有资源,开展开放式实验实训和校外实训,利用远程教学,将实训教学与职业技能鉴定相结合,以网络资讯平台为基础,通过电视式校园媒体平台,以市场为导向的方针,规划人力资源,以就业为核心的现代化的传输手段,实现适应市场需求的各类人才的培养计划,努力建设一个以高校校园市场为基础的、完善的、能沟通企业、学校和学生的产、教、学信息平台。     

Ongoing verification of a multiphysics community code: FLASH

When developing a complex, multi‐authored code, daily testing on multiple platforms and under a variety of conditions is essential. It is therefore necessary to have a regression test suite that is easily administered and configured, as well as a way to easily view and interpret the test suite results. We describe the methodology for verification of FLASH, a highly capable multiphysics scientific application code with a wide user base. The methodology uses a combination of unit and regression tests and an in‐house testing software that is optimized for operation under limited resources. Although our practical implementations do not always comply with theoretical regression‐testing research, our methodology provides a comprehensive verification of a large scientific code under resource constraints.Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一个浮点数学函数库测试平台

数学函数库作为CPU软件的重要组成部分,对于高性能计算机平台上的科学计算、工程数值计算起着极为关键的作用.现有的测试工具只能片面地对函数库进行测试,没有从正确性、精度和函数性能这3方面加以考虑,而且往往只针对一类目标体系结构,适用性有限.针对现有测试工具的缺陷,提出了面向多目标体系结构、全面可复用的一体化测试平台BMltest(basic math library test).测试平台结合函数特征值、IEEE-754特殊数以及利用浮点数生成规则实现的全浮点域指数分布的IEEE-754规范数构造了测试集,有效提高了测试集浮点数的覆盖率;提出了基于多精度库MPFR(multiple-precision floating-point reliable library)的精度测试方法,提高了精度测试的可靠性;提出了基于代码隔离的性能测试方法,最大限度地降低了外部环境对性能测试的干扰.针对大量的浮点测试结果,给出了合理的结果评价方案.测试平台使用的测试集数据与函数做到了相关性的极大分离,保证了测试方法的普适性.通过对包括GNU,Open64及Mlib函数库内所有855个函数的测试结果表明:BMltest平台的测试数据集更全面、有效,精度测试方法更可靠;与其他测试平台相比,性能测试结果更准确、稳定.     

浅论可信计算机平台密钥管理

可信计算机密码支撑平台可以提供一种可靠性高、可用性强的软硬件计算机平台,其利用可信平台模块,以密码学技术为基础,以操作系统为核心,利用相应的加解密技术以及认证技术来提高系统的安全性。本文就针对可信计算机平台密钥管理技术展开讨论。     

Characterizing the role of Weibo and WeChat in sharing original information in a crisis

Strategically differentiated managerial evidence of different social media platforms is of great importance to enhance crisis communication processes by balancing their strengths and weaknesses. This study aims to uncover the platform-specific situational information-sharing characteristics by differentiating the major types of information published in Weibo and WeChat during different phases of a crisis. The subject of the study is the Changsheng fake vaccine crisis which happened in China in 2018. Multiple supervised machine learning and topic modelling methods are used for the characterization of situational information types of the crisis during three phases in both platforms. Our study found that WeChat shares more situational information such as notifications, caution and advice, and criticizing information, whereas Weibo shares more emotional support and help-seeking information. This study provides social media analytics and empirical evidence of platform-specific situational information-sharing characteristics to aid authorities/researchers for better crisis communication and public emergency management.     

Skin-like Omnidirectional Stretchable Platform with Negative Poisson's Ratio for Wearable Strain–Pressure Simultaneous Sensor

Conventional elastomeric polymers used as substrates for wearable platforms have large positive Poisson's ratios (≈0.5) that cause a deformation mismatch with human skin that is multidirectionally elongated under bending of joints. This causes practical problems in elastomer-based wearable devices, such as delamination and detachment, leading to poorly reliable functionality. To overcome this issue, auxetic-structured mechanical reinforcement with glass fibers is applied to the elastomeric film, resulting in a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR), which is a skin-like stretchable substrate (SLSS). Several parameters for determining the materials and geometrical dimensions of the auxetic-structured reinforcing fillers are considered to maximize the NPR. Based on numerical simulation and digital image correlation analysis, the deformation tendencies and strain distribution of the SLSS are investigated and compared with those of the pristine elastomeric substrate. Owing to the strain-localization characteristics, an independent strain-pressure sensing system is fabricated using SLSS with a Ag-based elastomeric ink and a carbon nanotube-based force-sensitive resistor. Finally, it is demonstrated that the SLSS-based sensor platform can be applied as a wearable device to monitor the physical burden on the wrist in real time.     

“校园卫士”平台的实现及应用

"校园卫士"平台对学生、家长及老师提供个性化的信息服务,使受益方达到最大程度的沟通。本文主要对"校园卫士"平台进行系统介绍,并对其功能及应用方式作出探讨。     

Strategy, networks and systems in the global translation services market

The globalisation of markets has led to an increased demand for language translation services that support and enable communication between economic partners. For example, technical documents, software systems, business documents and web sites all need to be translated into multiple languages for individual national markets, and the information that they contain changes periodically. This paper sets out a theoretical framework that describes the architectures of business processes within and between separate firms that are used to support the delivery and management of services. This is done by coordinating the fit between externally generated problem complexity, from customers, and the internally generated complexity of different potential network configuration solutions. The theoretical framework is an architecture of how complexity is generated and managed at the different structural levels and across the different processual stages of an industry. A case study of thebigword, a major international translation services company, illustrates how the framework is applied in practice. The case study analyses the implementation of an electronic market platform which enables the coordination of the different stakeholders involved in the translation services market. These stakeholders include translators, translation services companies and their clients in a global business network.