Reinhold Haux1; Stefanie Kuballa1; Mareike Schulze1; Claudia Böhm2; Olaf Gefeller 3; Jan Haaf 2; Peter Henning 2; Corinna Mielke1; Florian Niggemann 2; Andrea Schürg 2; Dieter Bergemann 2 1Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany; 2 Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany; 3 Institute for Medical Informatic...

In this paper we present a variant of message sequence diagrams called EETs Extended Event Traces We provide the graphical notation discuss the methodological use of EETs to describe behavior of object oriented busi ness information systems and sketch their semantics Special emphasis is put on the di erent implications of using EETs for exemplary and complete interaction descriptions The possib...

Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...

This study focused on the factor structure of the victimization form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). A sample of 1,266 women participated in the study, including a subgroup of battered women. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a model that integrates the five original scales with the severity of violence (minor, severe). In addition, the distinction between minor a...