Agile methodologies like Scrum propose drastic changes with respect to team hierarchies, organizational structures, planning or controlling processes. To mitigate the level of change and retain some established processes, many organizations prefer to introduce hybrid agile-traditional methodologies that combine agile with traditional development practices. Despite their importance in practice, ...

The authors' Level I trauma center has advocated the use of ski helmets for several years and in 1998, undertook a social-marketing campaign and a helmet loaner program to increase helmet use among skiers and snowboarders. The loaner program's effect on helmet acceptance was measured by comparing helmet acceptance in participating rental stores with acceptance in nonparticipating stores during ...

T he 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey revealed that 53% of all physicians surveyed were willing to accept new Medicaid patients. Another study demonstrated an even lower Medicaid acceptance rate (32%) among US dermatologists. Such low acceptance rates are reflective of considerably lower and delayed reimbursements, increased paperwork and billing requirements, and the high clinical burden ...

As wireless technologies evolve, mobile technologies and services will increasingly affect our lives, accompanied by positive and negative effects. This development requires a high acceptance of users to the presence of mobile services in various usage contexts. In an exploratory focus-group-interview approach (n = 63), this research investigates usage motives as well as barriers, which are per...

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In this paper we construct an information-theoretic model of architectural drawings. This model is then used to quantify and measure the complexities and similarities of drawings. The approach is applied within a linear qualitative shape representation but can be generalized to other types of representation. The descriptive and analytic power of the proposed methods are demonstrated by studying...

Although many electric cars are readily available on the market and the charging infrastructure is expanded, the majority of people is still reluctant to buy and use an electric car. It is assumed that underlying motives and mental models play decisive roles for the acceptance. To gain insights into laypeople’s concepts concerning electromobility, three focus group studies on perceived benefits...