Diversification: does it really fail, when you need it most?

Rewarding creativity: when does it really matter?

This study examined the possibility that the relation between extrinsic rewards (e.g., pay and recognition) and employee creativity varied as a function of two conditions: employee job complexity and employee cognitive style. Our results showed a positive relation between extrinsic rewards and creativity for employees with an adaptive cognitive style who worked on relatively simple jobs. We fou...

Optimal diet theory: when does it work, and when and why does it fail?

Over the last three decades, many studies have attempted to explain forager diets by using optimal diet theory (ODT). Despite some obvious successes, the utility of this theory remains controversial. We reviewed the results of 134 studies of optimal diet theory to test hypotheses on factors that can explain variation in the ability of ODT to predict diets and diet shifts in response to changes ...

Colloidal Silver: Where Does It Go When You Drink It? How Long Does It Stay There?

Multimedia on Multiprocessors: Where’s the OS When You Really Need It?

Due to the limitations of current operating systems in supporting multimedia applications, much work has been done to provide resource management mechanisms to address this problem. As processor cycles are often the most oversubscribed and critical resource, most of this work has focused on uniprocessor scheduling. However, hardware platforms are moving to multiprocessor systems, and little wor...

The Problems of Assessing Software Reliability ....when you really need to depend on it

This paper looks at the ways in which the reliability of software can be assessed and predicted. It shows that the levels of reliability that can be claimed with scientific justification are relatively modest