Sawing off the branch you are sitting on

Are you sitting comfortably? The political economy of the body.

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the mass production of furniture in modern industrial societies and lower back pain (LBP). The latter has proven to be a major cost to health services and private industry throughout the industrialised world and now represents a global health issue as recent WHO reports on obesity and LBP reveal. Thus far there have been few co-ordina...

A Courtroom Looks Different When You Are Sitting on the Witness

But for Byron Mitchell, a quiet, husky, bespectacled bear of a man in his mid-fifties, the proceedings were anything but academic. Mitchell was on trial for allegedly driving the getaway car in the 1991 robbery of an armored vehicle. No one had been hurt, but Mitchell, facing a conviction for armed robbery, was looking at spending most of the rest of his life in prison. The forensic evidence th...

SAWing on Symmetry

In this paper we investigate the behavior of mutation-based evolutionary algorithms on highly symmetric binary constraint satisfaction problems. With empirical methods we study why and when these algorithms perform better under the stepwise adaptive weighting of penalties (SAWing) than under the standard penalty function. We observe that SAWing has little effect when the local optima of the sym...

Are you leaving money on the table?

Are you on the right track?

Physicians in early or mid-level leadership positions need different skills than those at the top. What are the skills they need and what are the risks of focusing on the wrong skills?