We examined motivation and behaviors in women's active job search in Spain and the gender gap in this process. The current crisis in Spain and the increase in the number of unemployed people have revealed new inequalities that particularly affect women's employability, especially the most vulnerable women. This paper addresses two exploratory studies: the first study analyzes gender differences...

Architecture-based software development plays an important role in successfully developing and managing large and complex software systems. Recently, there have been a number of studies for designing, evaluating, or transforming architectures. However, there is not much work being done for closely connecting an architectural evaluation with an architectural transformation in order to achieve qu...

A model for software product quality is defined. It has been formulated by associating a set of qualitycarrying properties with each of the structural forms that are used to define the statements and statement components of a programming language. These quality-carrying properties are in turn linked to the highlevel quality attributes of the International Standard for Software Product Evaluatio...

Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been found to be relatively dependent on familiarity in their recognition memory judgments. Conceptual fluency has been argued to be an important basis of familiarity. This study investigated the extent to which patients with mild AD use conceptual fluency cues in their recognition decisions. While no evidence of recognition memory was found in the pa...

Biobanks are gaining in importance by storing large collections of patient’s clinical data (e.g. disease history, laboratory parameters, diagnosis, life style) together with biological materials such as tissue samples, blood or other body fluids. When releasing these patientspecific data for medical studies privacy protection has to be guaranteed for ethical and legal reasons. k-anonymity may b...

INTRODUCTION Invasive prenatal diagnosis (IPD) has long been used to prenatally diagnose Down syndrome (DS), but it is associated with a small risk of miscarriage. Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a highly sensitive screening test using cell-free DNA in maternal blood for detection of DS without the risk of miscarriage, but it confers a small risk of false-positive and false-negative resu...

Understanding the hemodynamics of blood flow in vascular pathologies such as aneurysms is essential for both their diagnosis and treatment. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of blood flow based on patient-individual data are performed to better understand aneurysm initiation and progression and for predicting treatment success. A CFD simulation results in a complex, multiparameter ...

Software architecture plays an increasingly important role in the dependability of today’s large and complex software systems. Formal and informal architectural models embody critical design decisions about systems’ functional and nonfunctional properties. Traditionally, a wide range of software architecture modeling and analysis approaches focused on validating systems’ functionality. More rec...