Ships vs. Shops

Go - Shops vs . No - Shops : Evidence and Implications

Go-shop provisions have changed the way in which private equity firms execute public-company buyouts. While there has been considerable practitioner commentary on go-shops in the three years since they first appeared, this paper presents the first systematic empirical evidence on this new dealmaking technology. Contrary to the claims of prior commentators, I find that: (1) goshops yield more se...

Identical parallel machines vs. unit-time shops and preemptions vs. chains in scheduling complexity

Identical Parallel Machines Vs . Unit - Time Shops , Preemptions Vs . Chains , and Other Offsets in Scheduling

This paper studies the complexity variations of scheduling problems in diierent machine environments when replacing operations with arbitrary processing times by the chains of operations with unit processing times. Special attention is paid to polynomial-time algorithms for chain-like precedence-constrained problems with unit processing times and transformations of their solutions to each other...

Working with alarms on ships ICT work on ships

Alarm indicators are a very simple and important user interface for many control tasks, and are known to be problematic. Alarms on ships have increased in number and importance. Recent incidents such as Savannah Express, Aquitaine and others have identified a number of important issues in the way that alarm systems support safe and effective work. The state of alarm systems onboard is inconsist...

Online talking shops

Biologists have been using the internet as a forum for informal discussion — in the form of newgroups — for more than a decade. If you’re looking for the answer to a specific question, or simply want to float an idea with a group of like-minded people, there’s bound to be somewhere on the web you can do it. The challenge is to find the useful discussions among the ‘spam’. Two elements that cont...