Sabine Kübler, Irmelin Dörnfeld, Ellen Bender, Dirk Bönsel, Doris Fath, Alexandra Frenz, Beate Taudte-Repp & Lore Wirth: Stachelige Schönheiten.

Niklaus Wirth

The creative activity of programming — to be distinguished from coding — is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques. It is here considered as a sequence of design decisions concerning the decomposition of tasks into subtasks and of data into data structures. The process of successive refinement of specifications is illustrated by a short but nontrivial example, from whi...

Lise Beate Estil

Sabine Makkes

Ellen S

Rollover risk for passenger vehicles is studied using data from six states. The metric that is used is the number of rollovers per single vehicle accident. The analysis is performed with logistic regression and relevant factors such as weather and driver age are controlled for in the model. The use of categorical analysis permits the data to be used on the observation level, preventing the loss...

Gender bender

“When it comes to sperm, you’re half the man your grandfather was”, the Esquire magazine headline proclaimed earlier this year. It’s the next Silent Spring, U.S. News and World Report declared, reflecting the views of U.S. Vice President Albert Gore. “Hormonal Sabotage” declared Natural History magazine, in a headline stretched across two pages. What’s behind all the fuss? Well, apparently huma...