Conceptualizing community development in the twenty-first century
From Community Development By David Matarrita-Cascante and Mark A. Brennan Abstract The need to more accurately conceptualize the field of community development has increased during recent decades. This is largely the result of a growing field marked by its multidisciplinary nature, but also because of the multifaceted ways in which communities around the world participate ...
Neural responses to faces reflect social personality traits
From Social Neuroscience Abstract Faces are a developmentally primary and critically important source of social information, and they are processed differently from most other visual percepts. Studies of brain electrophysiology reveal a face-sensitive component, the N170, which is typically enhanced to faces relative to other stimuli. Research in social disabilities suggests that an atypical N170 ...
Neural activation in the “reward circuit” shows a nonlinear response to facial attractiveness
From Social Neuroscience Abstract Positive behavioral responses to attractive faces have led neuroscientists to investigate underlying neural mechanisms in a “reward circuit” that includes brain regions innervated by dopamine pathways. Using male faces ranging from attractive to extremely unattractive, disfigured ones, this study is the first to demonstrate heightened responses to both rewarding and aversive ...
Innovating knowledge communities by Phin Upham, Lori Rosenkopf, Lyle H. Ungar
By Phin Upham, Lori Rosenkopf, Lyle H. Ungar Abstract A useful level of analysis for the study of innovation may be what we call “knowledge communities”—intellectually cohesive, organic inter-organizational forms. Formal organizations like firms are excellent at promoting cooperation, but knowledge communities are superior at fostering collaboration—the most important process in innovation. Rather than focusing ...
Max Weber and Power by Phin Upham
Max Weber, one of sociology’s seminal figures, drew from great thinkers of the past, the histories of civilizations, jurisprudence, the arts, psychology and philosophy. Out of this cloth, he fashioned a radically new set of guiding principles, a new view of the world, an explanatory model of human progression and civilization based on rationalism and ...
Creative Destruction — One of the Seminal Works in Strategy, by Phin Upham
The idea of creative destruction is influential since it was first proposed by Joseph Schumpeter. Phin Upham discusses one of its most influential applications. Mary Tripsas’ article “Unraveling the Process of Creative Destruction: Complementary Assets and Incumbent Survival in the Typesetting Industry” presents a wonderful study of how creative destruction worked in a specific industry and ...
Citation Structure of an Emerging Research Area on the Verge of Application, by Henry Small & Phin Upham
Written by Henry Small & Phin Upham Abstract: A case study of an emerging research area is presented dealing with the creation of organic thin film transistors, a subtopic within the general area called “plastic electronics.” The purpose of this case study is to determine the structural properties of the citation network that may be ...
Finding Cohesive Clusters for Analyzing Knowledge Communities, by Vasileios Kandylas, Phin Upham, and Lyle H. Ungar
by Vasileios Kandylas, Phin Upham, and Lyle H. Ungar Abstract: Documents and authors can be clustered into “knowledge communities” based on the overlap in the papers they cite. We introduce a new clustering algorithm, Streemer, which finds cohesive foreground clusters embedded in a diffuse background, and use it to identify knowledge communities as foreground clusters ...
Fortune Society Will Provide Green Job Training Through EPA Brownfields Grant
From The Fortune Society: (New York, N.Y. – July 26, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Fortune Society of New York a $300,000 workforce development and job training grant to help fund the organization’s program to recruit, train and place formerly incarcerated people in green jobs assessing and cleaning up brownfields and ...
The Four Great Insults to Man, by Phin Upham
In this article, Phin Upham discusses the relationship between science and history Science seems to have caught up with, or at least challenged, many of the comforting assumptions mankind used to rely on to go to sleep at night the simple form of the belief that we stand on the apex of creation. The first two ...