Concurrent exercise training: do opposites distract?

Pooling in Manufacturing : Do Opposites Attract ?

In a stochastic environment pooling naturally leads to economies of scale, but heterogeneity can also create variability. In this article, we investigate this trade-off in the case of a manufacturing environment. Pooling for queueing systems has been widely investigated while much less attention has been given to manufacturing systems where jobs are given a due date upon arrival. In such system...

When Do Opposites Attract? Interpersonal Complementarity Versus Similarity

Two experiments examined whether interpersonal complementarity or similarity influences people's satisfaction with dyadic interactions. Participants in complementary partnerships (submissive people with dominant partners, dominant people with submissive partners) reported more satisfaction than did those with similar partners. In Study 1 complementarity referred to the match between, the partic...

Do Opposites Detract? Intrahousehold Preference Heterogeneity and Inefficient Strategic Savings

This paper uses a field experiment to test whether intrahousehold heterogeneity in discount factors leads to inefficient strategic savings behavior. I gave married couples in rural Kenya the opportunity to open both joint and individual bank accounts at randomly assigned interest rates. I also directly elicited discount factors for all individuals in the experiment. Couples who are well matched...

Do the mitochondria of obese individuals respond to exercise training?

Statins, exercise, and exercise training.

Statins are life-saving medications and so effective that some have suggested they be added to the drinking water to “fluorinate” the vascular bed against atherosclerotic disease. But statins, both in research models and clinically, can have deleterious effects on skeletal muscle. The most serious side effects are myositis and rhabdomyolysis manifested by marked elevations in creatine kinase an...