자연주의적 탐구조사(Naturalistic Inquiry)

Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

Phd by thesis

计量经济分析 = Econometric analysis

A theory is proposed to account for some of the age-related differences reported in measures of Type A or fluid cognition. The central hypothesis in the theory is that increased age in adulthood is associated with a decrease in the speed with which many processing operations can be executed and that this reduction in speed leads to impairments in cognitive functioning because of what are termed the limited time mechanism and the simultaneity mechanism. That is, cognitive performance is degraded when processing is slow because relevant operations cannot be successfully executed (limited time) and because the products of early processing may no longer be available when later processing is complete (simultaneity). Several types of evidence, such as the discovery of considerable shared age-related variance across various measures of speed and large attenuation of the age-related influences on cognitive measures after statistical control of measures of speed, are consistent with this theory.

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The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition.

In 1974 an article appeared in Science magazine with the dry-sounding title “Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases” by a pair of psychologists who were not well known outside their discipline of decision theory. In it Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman introduced the world to Prospect Theory, which mapped out how humans actually behave when faced with decisions about gains and losses, in contrast to how economists assumed that people behave. Prospect Theory turned Economics on its head by demonstrating through a series of ingenious experiments that people are much more concerned with losses than they are with gains, and that framing a choice from one perspective or the other will result in decisions that are exactly the opposite of each other, even if the outcomes are monetarily the same. Prospect Theory led cognitive psychology in a new direction that began to uncover other human biases in thinking that are probably not learned but are part of our brain’s wiring.

Thinking fast and slow.

textMore and more companies are installing Chief Digital Officer (CDO) positions in order to support the progress of their digital transformation. Since the employment of CDOs may influence companies' organizing logics, we conducted a multiple case study analysis to investigate the organization design parameters surrounding CDOs and their digital transformation activities. By examining the governance architectures in which the companies embed their CDOs (vertical dimension) and the horizontal coordination mechanisms utilized by CDOs (horizontal dimension), we shed light on two dimensions of companies' organizing logics. Our results indicate that CDOs need sufficient influence in the organization to pursue transformation activities and that the vertical and horizontal dimensions of companies' organizing logics are not independent of each other.

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Crossing Boundaries: Organization Design Parameters Surrounding CDOs and Their Digital Transformation Activities

In the last years new concepts of digital music distribution have been developed. One of them is Music as a Service, which provides music streaming over the internet as a service - without transferring ownership for the content. This differentiates Music as a Service from Download to Own, which is used by music download platforms predominantly and is the most widely studied concept in academic research. The aim of this paper is to receive first research implications about customers’ attitudes towards MaaS.

https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=amcis2010

Pricing of Content Services – An Empirical Investigation of Music as a Service

State of the Art des Business Process Redesign

For the media industry the question arises, how these new technologies can be exploited. The traditional emphasis of the media business has been the creation, bundling and distribution of information and entertainment (see Schumann and Hess 2000,1). Recently, new content-oriented products have emerged by serving existing contents to new target devices, (re-)using devicespecific variants of existing contents or by creating original contents for exclusive usage on a determined target device. In the future, new services based on applications, communication or transactions become possible, which fundamentally amplify the scope of activities for the media industry. The main goal of this paper is to analyse this area of interest in a systematic way. Section 2 starts with a short overview of major technological trends (for details, see Rawolle and Hess 2000). Section 3 works out attributes of digital contents that can be used to evaluate the given technologies. Based on these findings, different combinations of target device and transport media are assessed. Additionally, section 4 provides a deeper discussion of two major upcoming concepts, eBooks and mobile commerce.

New digital media and devices: An analysis for the media industry

Freemium seems a promising solution for content providers to earn money in times of the free mentality of Web 2.0 users. Freemium services can be used both for free or with a paid subscription to obtain premium content. Nevertheless, freemium's success is limited. Especially Music as a Service (MaaS) providers, that provide music via streaming over the internet as a service, still make no profits, because earnings from advertisements and premium users are not sufficient to finance the free basic version of music listening. However, this free basic version is necessary to convert non-paying users into paying ones. This study tests whether the basic, free version of a freemium service is recognized as advertisement for the premium version and could therefore lead to conversion. Using a structural equation model based on the Dual Mediation Hypothesis, we developed a survey with 71 participants and found that there is no advertising effect.

Thomas Hess

Papers

Crossing Boundaries: Organization Design Parameters Surrounding CDOs and Their Digital Transformation Activities

Pricing of Content Services – An Empirical Investigation of Music as a Service

State of the Art des Business Process Redesign

New digital media and devices: An analysis for the media industry

The Advertising Effect of Free -- Do Free Basic Versions Promote Premium Versions within the Freemium Business Model of Music Services?