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Quantifying the invisible audience in social networks
This paper combines survey and large-scale log data to examine how well users’ perceptions of their audience match their actual audience on Facebook. Abstract When you share content in an online social network, who is listening? Users have scarce information about who actually sees their content, making their audience seem invisible and difficult to estimate...
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The critical decade: global action building on climate change
This report presents an overview of progress in international action on climate change since August 2012, with a particular focus on China and the US. Key findings: 1. The energy giants China and the United States are accelerating action. China and the United States (US) are the world’s two largest economies and together produce approximately...
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Planning the unthinkable war: 'AirSea Battle' and its implications for Australia
This paper argues that Australia does not have an interest in officially signing up to AirSea Battle at this point. As part of America’s ‘rebalance’ towards the Asia–Pacific region, Australia’s most important ally is reconsidering its military posture to deal with China’s growing ‘anti‑access/area‑denial’ (A2/AD) capability, which is gradually eroding America’s maritime dominance in the...
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US faculty survey 2012
The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey has focused since its inception on capturing an accurate picture of faculty members' practices, attitudes, and needs. In the fifth triennial cycle, fielded in fall 2012, the survey focused on research and teaching practices broadly, as well as the dissemination, collecting, discovery, and access of research and teaching materials...
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Business strategy and earnings quality
ABSTRACT: Using the Miles and Snow (1978) strategy typology, this study investigates whether business strategy is associated with the quality of reported earnings. In a sample of U.S. listed firms, we predict and find that defender strategy firms are associated with higher levels of earnings management and prospector-strategy firms are associated with higher levels of...