Comparing Environmental Advisory Councils: How They Work and Why it Matters

How It Works and Why It Matters

This paper provides simulation practitioners and consumers with a grounding in how discrete-event simulation software works. Topics include discrete-event systems; entities, resources, control elements and operations; simulation runs; entity states; entity lists; and entity-list management. The implementation of these generic ideas in AutoMod, SLX, and Extend is described. The paper concludes w...

Creating Shared Understanding in Heterogeneous Work Groups: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It

Shared understanding has been claimed to be crucial for effective collaboration of researchers and practitioners. heterogeneity in work groups further strengthens the challenge of integrating understanding among diverse group members. Nevertheless, shared understanding and especially its formation are largely unexplored. After conceptualizing shared understanding, we apply collaboration enginee...

Qualitative Easing: How it Works and Why it Matters

This paper is about the effectiveness of qualitative easing; a government policy that is designed to mitigate risk through central bank purchases of privately held risky assets and their replacement by government debt, with a return that is guaranteed by the taxpayer. Policies of this kind have recently been carried out by national central banks, backed by implicit guarantees from national trea...

Don't mention it: Why people don't share job information, when they do, and why it matters

How Genomes are Sequenced and Why it Matters

Claims about high genomic DNA sequence similarity between humans and chimpanzees are typically made to audiences that do not understand the various layers of technology and ideological bias imposed upon the origination of the data in question. The recent human-chimp Y-chromosome project introduced a number of important genomic tools to achieve a considerably less-biased analysis. The results in...