‘Human factor’ is one of the most relevant and crucial aspects of software development projects management. Aiming at the performance improvement for software processes in organizations, a new model has been developed to diagnose people related processes. This new model is People-CMM and represents a complementary solution to CMM. On the other hand, existing estimation models in Software Engine...

In a classic statement, Hauser and Duncan (1959) defined demography as “the study of the size, territorial distribution, and composition of population, changes therein, and the components of such changes” (p. 2). It was fortunate that Hauser and Duncan explicitly included “composition of population” and “changes therein” in their definition, for their inclusion has broadened demography to encom...

The abundant choices offered by digital media have raised concerns that audience behavior in news consumption might become polarized into people either aggressively seeking out or avoiding the news. Despite growing evidence to that effect, there is no research that precisely measures exposure to news over a period of years. This study assesses TV news consumption by analyzing respondent-level “...

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?* In a new survey we ask respondents, after a standard Subjective Well‐Being (SWB) question, if they can think of changes in their lives that would improve their SWB score. If the SWB score is just one argument among others in the respondents’ goals in life, they should easily find ways to improve it, at the expense of other dimensions they...

People counting is a challenging task with many applications. We propose a method with a fixed stereo camera that is based on projecting a template onto the depth image. The method was tested on a challenging outdoor dataset with good results and runs in real time.

On the basis of goal/expectation theory, it was predicted that just as in interpersonal relationships, cooperation in social dilemma groups would increase only if both trust was high and group members had a common goal of cooperation. Introducing new measures of both these two processes to the social dilemma arena, the goal of mutual cooperation was assessed by the process of self–other merging...

background: serologic screening of gastric cancer (gc) by serum pepsinogens (spg) levels and helicobacter pylori (hp) sero-status, though highly informative, has provided heterogeneous results. here, we have evaluated the modifying effects of demographic factors on the risk impact of hp sero-status/spg levels in gastric cancer, with particular emphasis on age. methods: a cross-sectional study w...

Leadership categorization and relational demography theory suggest that ethnicity has a major impact on how people work together and perceive leaders. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leader ethnicity (Hispanic) and perceptions of leader behaviors. The results indicated that Hispanic leaders were perceived as equivalent, in terms of leadership, to Euro-American ...

Earth's capacity to support people is determined both by natural constraints and by human choices concerning economics, environment, culture (including values and politics), and demography. Human carrying capacity is therefore dynamic and uncertain. Human choice is not captured by ecological notions of carrying capacity that are appropriate for nonhuman populations. Simple mathematical models o...