Should Optimal Designers Worry About Consideration?

Should Designers Worry about Market Systems ?

Engineering approaches for optimizing designs within a market context generally take the perspective of a single producer, asking what design and price point will maximize producer profit predicted by consumer choice simulations. These approaches treat competitors and retailers as fixed or nonexistent, and they take business-oriented details, such as the structure of distribution channels, as s...

Population ageing: what should we worry about?

Approximately half the world's population now has replacement-level fertility or below. The UK experience in accommodating to a changing dependency ratio provides some generalizable insights. A mechanistic approach assuming a fixed retirement age and a need to raise fertility or increase immigration in order to maintain pensions at a fixed proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP) is overs...

Should Judges Worry About the “CSI Effect”?

Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?

Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions? This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created e...

"Pitfalls in Diffusion: What Artifacts Should I Worry About?"

This presentation covers the sources of many common diffusion image artifacts. Some of these arise from the limitations of single-shot echoplanar imaging (EPI), including low spatial resolution, blurring effects of T2* decay and T2 decay occurring during image readout, and sensitivity to artifacts due to Nyquist ghosting, chemical shift, magnetic field inhomogeneity, and local susceptibility ef...