Recent research has revealed that learning behavior is associated with academic achievement at the college level, but the impact of specific learning strategies on academic success as well as gender differences therein are still not clear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate gender differences in the incremental contribution of learning strategies over general cognitive ability ...

University rankings generally present users with the problem of placing the results given for an institution in context. Only a comparison with the performance of all other institutions makes it possible to say exactly where an institution stands. In order to interpret the results of the SCImago Institutions Ranking (based on Scopus data) and the Leiden Ranking (based on Web of Science data), i...

When randomized trials have addressed multiple interventions for the same health problem, network meta-analyses (NMAs) permit researchers to statistically pool data from individual studies including evidence from both direct and indirect comparisons. Grasping the significance of the results of NMAs may be very challenging. Authors may present the findings from such analyses in several numerical...

This work describes an approach to improving search results by using information sources that are additionally available in the context of enterprise search. After identifying special problems of search in an intranet context, several supplemental ranking scores are proposed. They aim at ranking those documents higher that stem from the searching user’s context of work. For this purpose, organi...

The group ranking approach has been applied in many applications, such as in decision-making support systems, group recommendation systems, and so on. Previous studies have focused on how to generate a total ranking list. When there is no consensus or only slight consensus in the users’ opinions or preferences, this kind of result may damage the decision-maker’s decision. For this reason, this ...

The increasing role of software for developing products and services requires that organizations align their software-related activities with high-level business goals. In practice, this alignment is very difficult and only little systematic support is available. GQM+Strategies is a method that aims at aligning organizational goals, strategies, and measurements at all levels of an organization ...

Although several studies have linked Life History Strategy (LHS) variation with variation in the Five Factor Model personality dimensions, no published research has explored the relationship of LHS to the HEXACO personality dimensions. The theoretically expected relationship of the HEXACO Emotionality factor to LHS is unclear. The results of two studies (N = 641) demonstrated that LHS indicator...

Search result diversification is one of the key techniques to cope with the ambiguous and/or underspecified information needs of the web users. In the last few years, strategies that are based on the explicit knowledge of query aspects emerged as highly effective ways of diversifying the search results. Our contributions in this work are two-fold. First, we extensively evaluate the performance ...