In diesem Jahr wurde der in Princeton lehrende, britisch-amerikanische Ökonom Angus Deaton mit dem Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ausgezeichnet. Es werden damit - wie es in der offiziellen Verlautbarung des Nobelpreiskomitees heißt - seine Analysen von Konsum, Armut und Wohlfahrt...

Many peer-to-peer overlay operations are inherently parallel and this parallelism can be exploited by using multi-destination multicast routing, resulting in significant message reduction in the underlying network. We propose criteria for assessing when multicast routing can effectively be used,...

The main objective of the PARTICIPA project is the investigation of factors influencingthe continuous vocational education, training and learning (CVETL) activities in the sixpartner countries Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Roughly,the project can be divided into two...

Participation in Continuning Vocational Eduacation and Training: a need for a sustainable employability is a research project funded in the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission. Project partners from six European countries are seeking to identify the factors influening...

The concept of knowledge worker has been around for fifty years and many information and communication technologies have been implemented in order to support this type of work. Workplaces have changed substantially, but information is scarce about how actual knowledge workers handle knowledge in...

Purpose: Empirically analyze the tourism destination selection attributes, tourist satisfaction and behavioral intentions of multicultural families by country of origin. Confirm the mediating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between tourism destination selection attributes, tourist...