An invitation to Salt Lake City

Effectiveness of traffic management in Salt Lake City, Utah.

PROBLEM The effectiveness of speed humps, 14 ft (4.3 m) wide by 3.5 in (8.9 cm) high, and tables, 22 ft (6.7 m) wide, on 12 streets in Salt Lake City, Utah was investigated. Mean and 85th percentile spot speeds, speed limit compliance, motor-vehicle crashes, and resident opinions were considered. METHOD Spot speeds were collected at 18 "between-hump" locations. Motor-vehicle crash data were o...

Maximizing appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis for surgical patients: an update from LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City.

Errors in antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgical patients remain one of the most frequent types of medication errors in hospitals. Failure to administer the first dose of antimicrobial prophylaxis within the 2-h window of time before incision is associated with 2- to 6-fold increases in rates of surgical site infection. Optimal use of antimicrobial prophylaxis includes proper case selection; us...

An Invitation to Play

Parity games and their subclasses and variants pop up in various contexts: μ-calculus, tree automata, program verification [3, 1, 8]. Such games provide only binary information indicating the winning player. However, in classical games theory [12] the emphasis is rather on how much we win or lose. Can we incorporate the information about the profits and losses into parity games?

An Invitation to Topology

An Invitation to

* The author is an Associate Professor of Accounting on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The essay is written based on a few lectures on accounting theory given at various universities. The author thanks the audience at these lectures. In preparing the written manuscript, comments by Xijia Su of City University of Hong Ko...