Evolutionary theory has informed the investigation of male sexual coercion but has seldom been applied to the analysis of sexual coercion within established couples. The cuckoldry risk hypothesis, that sexual coercion is a male tactic used to reduce the risk of extrapair paternity, was tested in two studies. In a community sample, indirect cues of infidelity predicted male propensity for sexual...

Organizations that maintain and evolve software would benefit from measuring productivity in an easy and reliable way. This could allow them to determine if new or improved practices are needed, and to evaluate improvement efforts. We propose and evaluate indicators of productivity trends that are based on the premise that productivity during software evolution is closely related to the effort ...

Information systems change initiatives often represent the single largest investment (and therefore risk) for large corporations yet there exist few management frameworks in the literature to help decision makers measure risk during this organization-wide change process. The Organization Risk Evaluation (ORE) framework has been developed based on the design science paradigm as a multicriteria, ...

Integration hell is a prime example of software evolution gone out of control. The Sisyphus continuous integration system is designed to prevent this situation in the context of component-based software configuration management. We show how incremental and backtracking techniques are applied to strike a balance between maximal feedback and being up-to-the-minute, and how these techniques enable...

The Dynamic Integration Problem (DIP) is the problem of proactively and automatically monitoring and managing evolutionary change in data warehousing systems without imposing a traditional and constraining "Top-Down" architecture. It is the problem of providing managers of both data warehouses and data marts, the capability to innovate while still maintaining the integration and consistency of ...

The management of the infrastructure and content of the World Wide Web is a growing problem for the development of web-based educational applications (WbEA) and is hidden beneath the tremendous benefits of the web. Moreover, such systems undergo more frequent and quite extensive changes in their development and operational period because the client’s perception (either the learner, the teacher ...

Many practical cases of database schema evolution require an effective support from configuration management. Although DBMS construction and software configuration management (SCM) constitute the well established areas of research, they are usually considered in separation from each other. In this paper different issues of SCM are summarized and their relevance to DBMS is investigated. We sugge...

This paper describes mobility management for the third-generation mobile networks. We focus on the evolution from General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). In this evolution, the radio access network UTRAN has been introduced, and radio-related management is moved from the core network to UTRAN. We elaborate on how this architecture change affects ...

The main purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the historical development of strategic management through a critical review of the most relevant theoretical proposals, and to consider its links to ethics and corporate social responsibility. From the very beginning of strategic management thought, attempts have been made to fuse ethical aspects, such as the values of senior manageme...