Life is change – Dynamic modeling quantifies it

IS/IT and Dynamic Business Change

This paper notes that the autonomy of ‘boundary spanning’ units are becoming critically important as organizations continue to decentralize. This dynamic business change and the consequent new configurations are believed to have a significant and pervasive impact upon the role of IS/IT. The formal ‘technology push’ common to these circumstances is clearly inappropriate given the emergence of th...

Spot5 Quantifies Rapid Urban Change

The rapidity of urban dymanics has a significant impact on the spatial patterns associated with the growth and expansion of metropolitan areas. High resolution satellite imagery with equally rapid image update capabilities offers significant potential for helping to maintain the accuracy of associated cadastre, municipal subdivision boundaries, voting districts and enumeration areas (population...

Dynamic Modeling of Behavior Change

We consider a conceptual and quantitative modeling approach for investigating dynamic behavior change. While the approach is applicable to behavior change in eating disorders, smoking, substance abuse and other behavioral disorders, here we present our novel dynamical systems modeling approach to understand the processes governing an individual’s behavior in the context of problem drinking. Rec...

The Doppler effect is not what you think it is: dramatic pitch change due to dynamic intensity change.

Historically, auditory pitch has been considered to be a function of acoustic frequency, with only a small effect being due to absolute intensity. Yet we found that when tones are Doppler shifted so that frequency drops, the pitch dramatically rises and falls, closely following the pattern of dynamic intensity change. We show that continuous intensity change can produce pitch variation comparab...

robotic anesthesia: how is it going to change our practice?