The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...

We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...

The public security field has a late insertion and is still under construction in the participatory institucionalities, such as councils and national conferences, presenting many challenges. This text discuss the legacy of the 1st National Conference on Public Security – Primeira Conferência...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Dietrich Nöthens: Analyse und Bewertung der Anforderungen an das Sicherheitsniveau der Informationssysteme an einer Hochschule zur Ableitung der Sicherheitsstrategie ... 4 - Ulrike Mauritz: Offene Türen im Netz - Untersuchungen zur Gewährleistung der Sicherheit in den...

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness are connected to the difficulty of reaching potential participants. Using the paradata of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper continues such research by...

Angesichts der stetigen, überproportionalen Zunahme des Anteils an digitalen Dokumenten im Bibliotheksbestand wird die automatische Indexierung als einzige Möglichkeit angesehen, die Sacherschließung, die eine zentrale Informationsdienstleistung der Bibliotheken darstellt, auch zukünftig...