Buying time with THRIVE

Buying time promotes happiness.

Around the world, increases in wealth have produced an unintended consequence: a rising sense of time scarcity. We provide evidence that using money to buy time can provide a buffer against this time famine, thereby promoting happiness. Using large, diverse samples from the United States, Canada, Denmark, and The Netherlands (n = 6,271), we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving s...

Cyclosporine and inflammatory bowel disease: buying time.

Cyclosporine is an effective drug in acute exacerbations of corticosteroid resistant ulcerative colitis, but its efficacy to maintain disease remission is not clear. Cyclosporine may not be as effective in Crohn's disease. However, being a rapidly acting immunosuppressant, cyclosporine may be a valuable therapeutic option in the short-term to treat corticosteroid resistant Crohn's disease and u...

Buying Time for Resource-Bounded Planning

To react appropriately in hard real-time environments, a system must either employ fast dynamic planning or recall a pre-built reactive response. For complex problems, real-time, accurate dynamic planning may be impossible, and the complete set of possible reactions may be too large to build and store in advance. In this paper, we propose combining offiine and online planning such that a set of...

SMBOs: Buying Time or Improving Performance?

Copyright © On the basis of an empirical analysis of 491 UK recent secondary management buyouts (SMBOs), we find strong evidence of a deterioration in long-run abnormal returns following SMBOdeals. SMBOs also performworse than primary buyouts in terms of profitability, labor productivity, and growth.We find no evidence for superior performance of private equity (PE) backed SMBOs, compared with ...

A floppy child with failure to thrive.