Christelle Jost, Bénedicte Breton, Valérie Biran, Suonavy Khung, Sarah Chekroune and Stéphane Bonacorsi 1) Service de Microbiologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Robert Debré, 2) Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 3) Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, AP-HP, Hôpital Robert Debré, 4) Service de Néonatologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Robert Debré and 5) Service de Biologie du développement, AP-HP, Hôpital Robert ...

focuses mostly on democracy (Arato 1981; Paxton 2002; Putnam 1993; Wuthnow 1991). This analysis investigates instead the relationship between associationism and authoritarianism. I explore how the strength of the associational sphere influenced the degree of regime hegemony in two cases of interwar European authoritarianism: the Italian fascist regime and the Spanish dictatorship of Miguel Prim...

Parliamentary procedure is a widely used system of rules for group decision making. Software can help people engage formal group deliberation in familiar face-to-face settings, and can also enable computer-mediated online deliberation. This paper presents a reusable software module, Parliament, that implements the logic and bookkeeping of parliamentary procedure using a separately modifiable sp...

Female students are strongly under represented in courses offered by the School of Computing at Curtin University of Technology. Recruitment of female students becomes an issue not only under equity concerns, but because retention within the School is higher than recruitment numbers warrant. In order to gain an insight into the background of a successful female computing student, at the end of ...