One of the means to address societal challenges in the European Union is through social innovation programs and through increased call for collaboration amongst public and private entities. This... Show moreOne of the means to address societal challenges in the European Union is through social innovation programs and through increased call for collaboration amongst public and private entities. This paper presents a theory that innovation through pastiche is an unacknowledged trend in the field of collaborative innovation. As suggested by the researcher, Living Labsare “a human-technology interaction innovation entity utilizing a mix of methods, tools and principles drawn from known disciplines (design, science, etc.), set in a real environment and in a locale/societal scale” for the purpose of social innovation and finding business opportunities. The researcher analyzed related publications of articles within 2005 – 2011 and analysis were made as a practice and not per Living Lab.The researcher concluded that collaborative innovation as observed in the Living Lab, results to a pastiche of best methods working together towards innovation with a collaborative consensus among multiple founding actors. Key words: Collaborative innovation; Innovation through pastiche; Pastiche method; Living Lab Show less
Scherer, H.U.; Rombouts, Y.; Ewing, E.; Stadt, L. van de; Selman, M.H.J.; Deelder, A.M.; ... ; Toes, R.E.M. 2012
There are clear sex differences in incidence and onset of stress-related and other psychiatric disorders in humans. Yet, rodent models for psychiatric disorders are predominantly based on male... Show moreThere are clear sex differences in incidence and onset of stress-related and other psychiatric disorders in humans. Yet, rodent models for psychiatric disorders are predominantly based on male animals. The strongest argument for not using female rodents is their estrous cycle and the fluctuating sex hormones per phase which multiplies the number of animals to be tested. Here, we will discuss studies focused on sex differences in emotionality and cognitive abilities in experimental conditions with and without stress. First, female sex hormones such as estrogens and progesterone affect emotions and cognition, contributing to sex differences in behavior. Second, females respond differently to stress than males which might be related to the phase of the estrous cycle. For example, female rats and mice express less anxiety than males in a novel environment. Proestrus females are less anxious than females in the other estrous phases. Third, males perform in spatial tasks superior to females. However, while stress impairs spatial memory in males, females improve their spatial abilities, depending on the task and kind of stressor. We conclude that the differences in emotion, cognition and responses to stress between males and females over the different phases of the estrous cycle should be used in animal models for stress-related psychiatric disorders. Show less
Gender plays a key role in the process of language variation. Men and women use language in different ways, according to the expected behavior patterns associated with their status in the... Show moreGender plays a key role in the process of language variation. Men and women use language in different ways, according to the expected behavior patterns associated with their status in the communities. In this paper, we present a first description of gender distinctions in the usage of Twitter hashtags. After analyzing data collected from more than 650,000 tagged tweets concerning three different subjects, we concluded that gender can be considered a social factor that influences the user's choice of particular hashtags about a given topic. This study aims to increase knowledge about human behavior in free tagging environments and may be useful to the development of tag recommendation systems based on users' collective preferences. Show less
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