Research into privacy attitudes has generally concentrated on concerns over data collection and handling by businesses, government, and other formal organizations. However, there are many aspects of one’s personal life that are not covered by this situation, such as casual snapshots and personal opinions. It is unclear what control people have over personal information that is released in this ...

This contribution starts from today’s definitions of innovation indicators and completes these 150 years backwards. It is divided into a descriptive and an econometric part. The German innovation system was very stable although it witnessed several political system changes in the past century. This allows for a comparison of 1850 – 1913 with 1951 – 1999. In the first period the overall empirica...

In this paper, we apply search theory to ana lyze the determinants of job search success as measured by the wages earned by re-employed male and female Polish workers after a spell of unemployment in 1994-2001. In addition to a general examination of postunemployment earnings, this study focuses on several specific themes. In particular, we investigate (i) if the receipt of unemployment benefit...

Theoretical studies about the interrelation of bank runs and deposit insurance assume that depositors are perfectly informed about deposit insurance and its main features. This assumption is commonly made, but was hardly ever checked empirically. Taking German depositors as an example, we investigate the knowledge about existing deposit insurance systems and how the insurance levels of differen...

This paper aims to analyze the male sexual initiation, identifying the way low income youth understand it. The theoretical and conceptual references were those in which sexuality reflects wider relations that involve the person itself and society. The methodological plan features a case study under the social sciences perspectives, supported by a hermeneutic and dialectical approach. It involve...

Although Cloud Computing promises to lower IT costs and increase users’ productivity in everyday life, the unattractive aspect of this new technology is that the user no longer owns all the devices which process personal data. To lower scepticism, the project SensorCloud investigates techniques to understand and compensate these adoption barriers in a scenario consisting of cloud applications t...

based on personal and professional characteristics, the present study compares the research performance among faculty members of agricultural colleges in west part of iran. the statistical population of this study consisted of all faculty members in the agricultural colleges of universities of ilam, razi and kurdistan at iran, which 116 faculty members were selected as the sample using the prop...

Although it is widely acknowledged that nonprofit agencies are critical actors in the nation's social service arena, few studies to date have investigated how the 1996 welfare reform legislation affected them. This article reports on one component of a research project in southeast Michigan that explored how the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 transformed...