Languages and Design Patterns are concepts that were purposed by Christopher Alexander. The main motivation to draw those concepts is to enforce the conception as well as the reuse of sucessful experiences whithin projects. On the other hand, the purpose of this work is to outline an approach where these concepts could be used to share teaching experiences. In other words, guiding through the r...

Spatial information is getting ever more prominent on the web. As envisioned by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) a spatial strand has been woven into the web. However, the buildup of the geospatial web takes place with scarce utilization of OGC standards only. One reason might be of architectural nature. Many successful web services follow the paradigm of Representational State Transfer (RE...

Studies have reported valuation discounts for publicly traded companies based in countries that provide weak legal protection minority shareholders.1 Such are often attributed to the ability of controlling shareholders extract “private benefits” come at expense shareholders. Without sufficient deterrents, both incentive and transfer corporate resources themselves personal consumption or gain. T...