Poor school performance has historically been one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of delinquency and criminality. Conversely, improvements in school performance have more recently been associated with desistance from delinquent and criminal activity. As a result, criminological and educational research suggests a strong link between education and crime. This chapter assesses the...

a major concern of farmers is deterioration of the soil and water resources. soil management is the most direct way for mankind to interfere with natural processes that may either intensify or hinder soil degradation. fractal geometry has been widely used to describe heterogeneity in a wide range of natural processes, including physical systems of soil. in this study, the effects of different m...

Spreadsheets are software programs which are typically created by end-users and often used for business-critical tasks. Many studies indicate that errors in spreadsheets are very common. Thus, a number of vendors offer auditing tools which promise to detect errors by checking spreadsheets against so-called Best Practices such as “Don’t put constants in fomulae”. Unfortunately, it is largely unk...

The objective of this article is to provide a better understanding of cost of quality (CoQ) methods by presenting a survey of published literature with specific emphasis on CoQ models and best practices, and by contributing four examples of company best practices in the area of quality management. Even though the survey shows an interest by the academic community, a CoQ approach is not utilized...

innovation can be represented as a knowledge transformation process perceived with different levels of granularity. The milestones of this process allow assessment for each step of it and set up feedback loops that will be highlighted. This innovation process is a good starting point to understand innovation and then to manage it. Best practices being patterns of processes, we describe innovati...

We present a set of common themes and recommendations extracted from in‐depth interviews with the leaders of 12 distinct cyberinfrastructure software projects. These interviews were conducted as part of a larger study to identify and elucidate the best practices and management models that lead to sustainability for cyberinfrastructure software. Respondents in a formal survey of cyberinfrastruct...

This article builds upon earlier research (McDaniel & Fiore, 2010) in which the authors presented case studies focused on the design and development of two original ethical learning video games. Through this case study and a review of relevant literature, the authors explored the content creation of, and theoretical rationale for, the design and development of ethics games. Both games were gear...

We describe a prototype system we have developed that incorporates best practices identified from a 2003 study of both public and private E-tax filing websites hosted in the USA. Our motivation is to investigate the current low functionality and low penetration usage of online tax filing, an increasingly important webapplication. We identify critical security and usability features in current u...