Hanxue Lee's List: Unrelated Research

Research shows that taking the more difficult Internationa Economics course contribute towards better overall GPA, due to the more difficult nature and advanced statistical knowledge required. 
Specifically if a student take all 3 International Economic courses and get perfect 4, result in average 0.46 increase in overall GPA
Demographic co-efficients: white, female students perform best. African-american students perform worst. 

Research shows course comfort is most important predictor of success in computer science classes, above that of maths ability.
12 factors were tested: gender, previous programming experience (format course / self-initiated programming), previous non-programming experience (Internet / games / productivity software), encouragement to pursue CS, Comfort level, work style preference, attributions, self-efficacy, math background.
Games has negative co-relation

The research in "S. Dehnadi and R. Bornat. The camel has two humps." shows that consistency in mental model is a 100% predictor of student's success in programming course.
This research shows likewise, that there is no-corelation between consistency of mental model and performance in introductory programming course

Research shows effectiveness of Computer Assisted Language Learning. 9.6% improvement from pre-test to post-test results. 
Questions asked to students about how attracted to Exercise modules, intriguing colour usage etc are statistically spreaded out
The paper does not explain much on how the software is developed, what approach taken to develop it, only use 1 metric to measure the improvement, does not compare with control group or other types of learning methods. 

Research shows implementation of enterprise IT framework in an utility company in Malaysia - TNB
Concludes that staff that is involved in implementation is not sent to training. 
Recommend setting up staff training for competency, up to 2 years per staff. 
Recommend using generic title in ITIL for mapping roles. 
Comparison of the different frameworks shows that COBIT is the most comphrehensive, but then no recommendation or explanation on why TNB does not use COBiT. 
Most questions in questionaire is not answered - maybe interviewee concerned to expose the lack of competency/maturity in implementation. However, no separate approach is taken to get quality results. 
The style of writing is sometimes poor and disjointed. For example, mentioning that "discovery of SW-CMM is retire in 2007 and replaced by CMMI" shows the progress of the research and has no value for mentioning SW-CMM in the context of the paper. 

Research recommends the functionality in university's software maintenance tool - which is having prioritization, tracking of feature request, service level agreement. 
The research method is not solid, as it depends on surveying the development/operations team on what they want from software, rather than looking at empirical evidence and surveying customers and users. 
Some findings such as lack of usage of CASE in universities is not validated with statistics, as well as taking a different approach for higher quality of research. 
Also does not refer to available enterprise IT system frameworks and available market solutions for maintenance software. 

Research show that small business owner's attitude, lack of skill, and the cost of adopting technology are the main factors preventing adoption of e-business in home based business. 
Lack of detailed explanation on why these factors are causing slow adoption. No comparison with regional factors, and breakdown of e-business and non-tech business. 
Categorizing of professionals working from home as HBB is wrong - that falls under tele-commuting. 

Describe the e-Business components of home-based businesses. 
Nothing proscriibed about economic/ social benefit of e-business, or any further statistical analysis

Paper propose a model of User Interaction Layer, Mediator Layer, and Ontology layer. How information flows from the different layer from knowledge provider -> K Manager -> SWS Manager -> Ontology Mapping manager ->User/Domain/WS Ontology

Rats will save another rat which is trapped in a cage, with device to open. 100% female rats rescue, only 70% male rats rescue. Female rats also learn faster. The rescuer rats also share food with rescuee. 

Users generally are not aware how their published content is publicized. Also users expect current social network is sharing more than they expected. 

Depending on context, some users may prefer more personalization. Those who are willing to share more information tend to allow more personalization

Proposal: better awareness of how shared info is used and intuitive privacy cntrol needed

The following factors used to rate importance: 
Social features - how often interaction between sender
Content features - headers, recent terms
Thread features - how much interacture
Label features - what labels applied

How fast a user respond to email - min time before responding, max time in days - emails replied > max not taken into account

In  Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey  J. Schott, assisted by Kimberly Ann Elliot database of 40 cases of economic sanctions, the paper prove that only 50 works. 

Both the US Federal Reserve and France caused a 30% deflation in prices from 1928 to 1932 due to massive purchase of gold reserve and sterilizing the gold (not increasing monetary supply). In 1930-31, France is the biggest contributor to shrinking money supply and deflation. 

In the unipolar era, 2/3 of sanctions work due to lack of countervailing forces from the Soviet Union

why semantic search didnt take off