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influence this has on final height is not included in this chapter but found elsewhere under the heading of indices of maturity. In general it is well written, although it could be more concise. A helpful reference list is provided. After reading this text, I can only agree with the author's quotation of Saint Augustine "man looks about the universe in awe at its wonders and forgets that he him...

Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) has been used for a while in many scenarios, case studies, and applications successfully. This paper intends to present a new application of DSM for facilitating an Early Warning Service (EWS). The knowledge about risks and its representation is an important factor for any EWS. The challenge is to help the users be closer to the understanding of the associated ris...

This paper presents a practical risk analysis method for critical, large-scale IT systems in an organisation. The method is based on reliability block diagram modelling and was adapted to fit the requirements of governmental organisations and to reduce the effort required to capture complex failure behaviour. Through the use of different failure categories the risk analysis can be simplified, t...

This research seeks to understand how people perceive and respond to structural factors and different types of disclosure on Facebook when evaluating the profile of someone they have never met offline. Using a 2 3 2 between-subjects experimental design, this research explored the relationship between friend adding (add; no add), levels of self-disclosure (low, medium, high), and sex of the Face...

Cultural capital has been an important but often elusive concept in the study of educational processes and social class reproduction. The authors suggest that this is partly because a country’s educational system and ways of evaluating students at different educational transitions set the context for the mechanisms through which embodied and objectified cultural capital operate. Moreover, paren...

We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of temporary agency work prior to the crisis. Overall, our results suggest that establishments with a gr...

This paper outlines an approach to manage and quantify the risks associated with changes made to spreadsheets. The methodology focuses on structural differences between spreadsheets and suggests a technique by which a risk analysis can be achieved in an automated environment. The paper offers an example that demonstrates how contiguous ranges of data can be mapped into a generic list of formula...