For the precaution against physical soil degradation in managed soils, accurate planning data about anthropogenic impacts and for policy making applicable indicators to describe the driving force and state are required. To assess the potential erosion risk, accurate information is available, but to assess the actual erosion risk it is necessary to regard current land-use and cultivation data fo...

In this paper, we dealt with substantial asset analysis methodology applied to twodimensional asset classification and qualitative evaluation method according to the business process. Most of the existent risk analysis methodology and tools presented classification by asset type and physical evaluation by a quantitative method. We focused our research on qualitative evaluation with 2-dimensiona...

The voluntary use of private device by employees without formal approval of the IT department, commonly termed Shadow IT, is an increasingly widespread phenomenon. In this paper, we study the role of private smartphones (and related applications like WhatsApp) in knowledge-intensive practices in the manufacturing domain. With an in-depth case study based on data gained from observations and int...

This study investigated the effect of different scientific inquiry activities on visitors' understanding of the science underlying an interactive exhibit. The exhibit, "colored shadows," creates a pattern of colored shadows on a white wall, due to a person's body blocking the light from colored lamps. The subjects were 392 museum visitors, aged 7 to adult. They were individually guided through ...

In response to multiple LGBTQ youth suicides in 2010, Dan Savage and Terry Miller sought to provide messages of hope to at-risk LGBTQ youth through the YouTube-based “It Gets Better Project” (IGBP). With empirical data gathered through online chatbased in-depth interviews, this study offers insight into multi-dimensional motivations for participation in an online community. Pointedly, data show...

As project managers (PMs) play an important role in project success, assigning PMs with appropriate skills and personalities to projects is a crucial task. Nevertheless, empirical research on skill requirements for information technology (IT) PMs is limited and little information systems literature focuses on the role of internally recruited IT PMs. This paper presents a case study of a trouble...

ERRATA delete optimal Section accommodate R(t,k) vi ci nity change b-a to a-b Bayes risk It easily follows (by induction) from (9) and (21) ...