How diverse and inclusive are policy process theories?1

Wheat and barley seed system in Syria: How diverse are wheat and barley varieties and landraces from farmer’s fields?

"> The present study described the diversity of wheat and barley varieties andlandraces available in farmer’s fields in Syria using different indicators. Analysisof spatial and temporal diversity and coefficient of parentage along withmeasurements of agronomic and morphological traits were employed to explain thediversity of wheat and barley varieties or landraces grown by farmers in Syria.Farm...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

How 'learnable' are CASE tools in diverse user communities?

The use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools for teaching object-oriented systems analysis and design (OOSAD) and the Unified Modelling Language (UML) has many potential benefits, but there are several problems associated with the usability and learnability of these tools. This paper describes a study undertaken to determine if computing students from a linguistically and technol...

How Do We Create More Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Organizations, and Why Does it Matter? A White Male's Perspective

At a conference early in my scientific career, the presenter—an early-career woman— checked in with the session chair—a middle-aged male professor—to see how much time she had left before having to wrap up her talk. The session chair told her she had plenty of time, followed with “Either way, you look very pretty up there!” The misguided comment appeared to take the woman totally off-guard as s...

Dr aft ! How , and Why , Process Metrics are better

Defect prediction techniques could potentially help us to focus quality-assurance efforts on the most defect-prone files. Modern statistical tools make it very easy to quickly build and deploy prediction models. Software metrics are at the heart of prediction models; understanding how and especially why different types of metrics are effective is very important for successful model deployment. ...