Thanks to the rapid increase of observations of Supernovae Ia, we may now claim that the Universe is accelerating. SN Ia are believed to be good standard candles, and after correcting the observations by various methods a precise Hubble diagram results. One of the most important problems to solve in astrophysics today is to find the progenitors of SN Ia. Candidates are to be found in close bina...

This study uses Swedish trends in alleged criminal assaults against minors to investigate whether societal violence has decreased since their spanking ban in 1979.The rates of all assaults increased dramatically. Compared to 1981, criminal statistics in 2010 included about 22 times as many cases of physical child abuse, 24 times as many assaults by minors against minors, and 73 times as many ra...

Studies on delinquent behaviour have frequently shown that firstborn children are less involved in delinquency than middle-born children. We suggest that differential parental control of the children depending on their ordinal position might account for this phenomenon. The study, carried out with a French representative sample (n /1129), indicated that firstborns were more supervised than midd...

The purpose of this paper is to high-light problems regarding user actability and security implementations – what are the important mechanisms that affect actability in usage situations? Alignment between actability and strategic IS-planning and security issues is of the essence. However, serious gaps in alignment have been identified concerning strategic IS-planning as well as in development o...

Information security has been a crucial strategic issue in organizational management. Information security management is a systematic process of effectively coping with information security threats and risks in an organization. With the pressure of high implementation and maintenance cost, organizations need to distinguish between controls they need and those that are less critical. Applying cr...

The failure or success of students at school can have important impacts on their future studies and labour market outcomes. Furthermore, school performance of the children of immigrants can inform on their adjustment or disadvantage (if any) in the country of destination. This paper examines the tertiary entrance scores of children with migrant parents (firstand second-generations Australians) ...

Ewan Cameron, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S. (Edin. and Glas.), was born In Glasgow, Scotland in 1922. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and Glasgow and took his medical degree in the University of Glasgow in 1944. He served for three years as medical officer (Lt. Col. Senior Surgical Specialist) with the armed services in Burma and then served f...

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases between different identification strategies; and (c) differences across identification strategies in ...

As with all aspects of business and the economy, information security is an economic function. Security can be modeled as a maintenance or insurance cost as a relative function but never in absolute terms. As such, security can be seen as a cost function that leads to the prevention of loss, but not one that can create gains (or profit). With the role of a capital investment to provide a return...