Rating the Law: How Financial Rating Agencies are Assessing the Legal Risks of Financial Transactions

in Law and economics of risk in Finance (2007)

De burgerschool als leerplaats voor democratie

Report (2007)

Den kommunikative vändingen i Deweys Demokrati och Utbildning.

in Englund, T. (Ed.) Utbildning som kommunikation. (2007)

Théorie des Codes : Compression, Cryptage et Correction

Book published by Dunod (2007)

Dealing with requirements: Influences on Idea Generation in the Early Stages of Product Development

in Proceedings of DTRS7: Design Meeting Protocols (2007)

This paper aims at identifying factors which influence the number of ideas generated during a brainstorming meeting as part of an industrial mechanical engineering design project. A framework for ... [more ▼]

This paper aims at identifying factors which influence the number of ideas generated during a brainstorming meeting as part of an industrial mechanical engineering design project. A framework for describing groups of influencing factors and their relationships is used. As a result of an explorative, comparative protocol analysis of two design meetings the influence of some factors is described e.g. the formulation of the design task description and the sequence of the process steps. [less ▲]

Raum als Analysekategorie in den Humanwissenschaften. Überlegungen im Spannungsfeld von Regionalität und Globalität

in Forum für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur in Luxemburg (2007), 272

Kapitel 25: Kommunikation zwischen Zellen: Extrazelluläre Signalmoleküle, Rezeptoren und Signaltransduktion

in Löffler, Georg; Petrides, P. E.; Heinrich, Peter C. (Eds.) Biochemie und Pathobiochemie (2007)

Associations of social and material deprivation with tobacco, alcohol, and psychotropic drug use, and gender differentials: a population-based study

in International Journal of Health Geographics (2007), 2

The aim was to assess the relationships between social and material deprivation and the use of tobacco, excessive alcohol and psychotropic drugs by both sexes and in various age groups. Greater knowledge ... [more ▼]

The aim was to assess the relationships between social and material deprivation and the use of tobacco, excessive alcohol and psychotropic drugs by both sexes and in various age groups. Greater knowledge concerning these issues may help public health policy-makers design more effective means of preventing substance abuse. Methods: The sample comprised 6,216 people aged ≥ 15 years randomly selected from the population in northeastern France. Subjects completed a post-mailed questionnaire covering socio-demographic characteristics, occupation, employment, income, smoking habit, alcohol abuse and "psychotropic" drug intake (for headache, tiredness, nervousness, anxiety, insomnia). A deprivation score (D) was defined by the cumulative number of: low educational level, manual worker, unemployed, living alone, nationality other than western European, low income, and non-home-ownership. Data were analysed using adjusted odds ratios (ORa) computed with logistic models. Results: Deprivation was common: 37.4% of respondents fell into category D = 1, 21.2% into D = 2, and 10.0% into D ≥ 3. More men than women reported tobacco use (30.2% vs. 21.9%) and alcohol abuse (12.5% vs. 3.3%), whereas psychotropic drug use was more common among women (23.8% vs. 41.0%). Increasing levels of deprivation were associated with a greater likelihood of tobacco use (ORa vs. D = 0: 1.16 in D = 1, 1.49 in D = 2, and 1.93 in D ≥ 3), alcohol abuse (1.19 in D = 1, 1.32 in D = 2, and 1.80 in D ≥ 3) and frequent psychotropic drug intake (1.26 in D = 1, 1.51 in D = 2, and 1.91 in D ≥ 3). These patterns were observed in working/other non-retired men and women (except for alcohol abuse in women). Among retired people, deprivation was associated with tobacco and psychotropic drug use only in men. Conclusion: Preventive measures should be designed to improve work conditions, reduce deprivation, and help deprived populations to be more aware of risk and to find remedial measures. [less ▲]

Collaborative Filtering in Artefact-based m-Learning Environments

in International Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Environments (MULE 2007) held in conjunction with 15th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2007) (2007)

Schriftkultur und Schwellenkunde

Book published by Transcript (2007)