Computer science camps to reduce the gender gap: a proposal for effective design and impact evaluation

Background and Context: According to recent data, women are still severely underrepresented in Computer Science (CS) in both European and American job markets. To attract female students to CS, several extracurricular initiatives have been started. However, the lack of shared formats and evaluation methods makes it difficult to design effective CS programs and evaluate their impacts. Objectives: We propose an evaluation tool to assess the impact of the main camp features on the participants, ...

Industrial relations and firm-level innovation. A comparative analysis of establishment data in Germany and Italy

Multiple intracranial aneurysms: An international consensus statement

Introduction: Multiple intracranial aneurysms (MIAs) pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, and widely used rupture-risk scores have not been validated for this subgroup. Research question: To develop expert-based recommendations for the diagnosis, rupture-risk assessment, treatment selection, and follow-up of patients with MIAs. Material and methods: A modified Delphi process was conducted. After topic generation from the literature, iterative questionnaires were administered anonymousl...

The Negative Social Roles of Virtual Conversational Agents in Consumer Interactions

Current marketing literature claims that consumers can establish relationships with virtual conversational agents (VCAs) that can be referred to as interpersonal ones. Despite the risks that these relationships can entail, the investigation of negative VCA social roles is still underdeveloped. This work aimed to address this gap. We launched a qualitative survey in which participants were asked to write about a prototypical episode regarding a negative relationship with a VCA. A typology of...