Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: External validity—A tale of two states

Commentary on "A Tale of Two States".

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

Stable vs. Unstable Markets: A Tale of Two States

One of the bedrocks of modern capital market theory is that market risk and related statistics are stable over the long run. Nobel prizes have been won for this insight, and it is taught in the best business schools. Regulations have also been written based upon this assumption. Yet, experience does not support this idea. We know that often markets have periods of relative stability, but they c...

Regulation and Stumpage Prices: A Tale of Two States

ods, and Maryland has a variety of laws and regulations pertaining to forest practices (Hawks et al. 1993). Martus et al. (1995) reported on the proliferation of local regulation ofprivate forestry, which has increased more than fourfold in the past 10 years. They predicted that local regulation will continue to expand as people unaccustomed to traditionally rural activities, such as harvesting...

A Tale of Two Object Recognition Methods for Mobile Robots

Object recognition is a key feature for building robots capable of moving and performing tasks in human environments. However, current object recognition research largely ignores the problems that the mobile robots context introduces. This work addresses the problem of applying these techniques to mobile robotics in a typical household scenario. We select two state-of-the-art object recognition...