Country ratings of human rights conditions are now quite popular in macro comparative research. However, little is known as to whether (or to what extent) these scores correspond with mass sentiment in each country. Do local ratings issued by the public correspond with third party ratings, such as those produced by the Cingranelli-Richards index (CIRI), the Political Terror Scale (PTS), and Fre...

In the house mouse there are numerous chromosomal races distinguished by different combinations of metacentric chromosomes. These may come into contact with each other and with the ancestral all-acrocentric race, and form hybrid zones. The chromosomal clines that make up these hybrid zones may be coincident or separated from each other (staggered). Such staggered hybrid zones are interesting be...

I develop a model of Silicon Valley engineer labor and venture capital (VC) markets. Software engineers choose between joining an established software company or founding a venture-backed startup. In equilibrium, they are indifferent between entrepreneurship and employment. The model predicts equilibrium markets wages, the terms of VC investments (i.e., the fraction of equity retained by the en...

This paper presents the possibility to utilize Balanced Scorecard knowledge in software process improvement. The research is a case study in a Finnish software company where the author has been working as a quality manager and a product manager. Main focus is to introduce aspects of making visible the business factors of software process improvement steps. The balanced scorecard approach is int...

In the vicinity of John o'Groats (Caithness, Scotland) there is a small karyotypic race of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) characterized by a diploid number of 32 chromosomes, including the metacentrics 4.10, 9.12, 6.13 and 11.14. This race forms a hybrid zone with the standard British race (fully acrocentric chromosomes, 2n = 40). Although hybrid zones normally consist of several (or...

Reports that a ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (SM) child star was offered for sale by her father has led to criticism of the filmmakers, the girl’s family and the British mediaresponsible for the sting operation and subsequent scoop all over the globe(1). At the center of the story is 9-year-old Rubina, one of only two child actors in the film to actually come from the communities where it is set. There...

We consider two-sided matching markets, and study the incentives of agents to circumvent a centralized clearing house by signing binding contracts with one another. It is well-known that if the clearing house implements a stable match and preferences are known, then no group of agents can profitably deviate in this manner. We ask whether this property holds even when agents have incomplete info...