Software reuse and especially the paradigm of software components are promising approaches to increase the efficiency of software development. One of the basic problems of software reuse, however, is the trade-off between the abstraction from project-specific aspects on the one side, and the actual contribution of a reusable component during the realization of a new system on the other side. Co...

The legal and the economic literatures overwhelmingly support the notion that regulation compliance is always lower in the presence of corruption. This paper departs from those literatures and shows that an increase in corruption may actually foster regulation compliance. The conditions that make this possible are laid down in a theoretical model. The evidence that corroborates the theoretical ...

This project is only a predictive exercise, and I cannot claim any causalities. For instance, I found that the number of days spent in foster care is important in predicting the exit outcome of a child. However, I cannot claim that staying longer in foster care causes a child to exit one way or another. There can be other unaccounted variables that impact both the length of stay and the exit ou...

Over the past two decades, the foster care system experienced an unprecedented rise in the number of children in out-of-home care, significant changes in the policy framework guiding foster care practice, and ongoing organizational impediments that complicate efforts to serve the children in foster care. This article discusses the current status of the foster care system and finds: Agencies oft...