With increasing economic pressures and exponential growth in technological innovations, companies are increasingly relying on digital technologies for innovation and value creation. But, with increasing levels of cybersecurity breaches, the trustworthiness of many established and new technologies is of concern. Consequently, companies are aggressively increasing cybersecurity of their existing ...

The cultural valuation of biodiversity has taken on renewed importance over the last two decades as the ecosystem services framework has become widely adopted. Conservation initiatives increasingly use ecosystem service frameworks to render tropical forest landscapes and their peoples legible to market-oriented initiatives such as REDD+ and biodiversity offsetting schemes. Ecosystem service app...

Good executive function has been linked to many positive outcomes in academic performance, health, and social competence. However, some aspects of executive function may interfere with other cognitive processes. Childhood provides a unique test case for investigating such cognitive trade-offs, given the dramatic failures and developments observed during this period. For example, most children c...

Despite the relevance of noncognitive skills (i.e. soft skills) for individual development and certain forms employment, they tend to be overlooked in studies centred on educational performance. This study brings an additional contribution growing interest these by exploring their main determinants providing understanding how are influenced socio-economic family background. To this end, a multi...

In a risk-neutral stochastic environment where bankruptcy is possible, it is well-established that coinsurance incentives may lead creditors to prefer mergers over spin-offs, while shareholders may prefer spin-offs. This paper shows that there are two distinct reasons for this. One is due to the concavity of the debt payoff function in the face value of the debt, while the other arises from imp...

Parallel programming models should attempt to satisfy two conflicting goals. On one hand, they should hide architectural details so that algorithm designers can write simple, portable programs. On the other hand, models must expose architectural details so that designers can evaluate and optimize the performance of their algorithms. Using both microbenchmarks and several representative algorith...