US universities request special help as visa quota is reached early

Online Load Analysis For Automated Request-Quota Controlling In Clouds

The importance of efficient use of IT infrastructure capacities increases, as the growing amount of deployed IT systems increasingly requires resources. On the one hand, companies can outsource their IT demands to Cloud providers in order to only pay for the very amount of required computational power. On the other hand, cloud providers themselves need to be efficient as well, as it may be the ...

Chimpanzees Help Each Other upon Request

BACKGROUND The evolution of altruism has been explained mainly from ultimate perspectives. However, it remains to be investigated from a proximate point of view how and in which situations such social propensity is achieved. We investigated chimpanzees' targeted helping in a tool transfer paradigm, and discuss the similarities and differences in altruism between humans and chimpanzees. Previous...

None of Us Is As Smart As All of Us

Dr. Parker is Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare (MedStar Health) in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on human factors and applied psychology, with an emphasis on understanding team performance in high-risk healthcare settings. Dr. Parker is currently an AHRQ postdoctoral fellow, researching team coordination during trauma resusc...

VISA Is Required for B Cell Expression

Helping as Mundane Knowledge Sharing: Do Bundled Help Request and Quiet Time Increase Performance?

On a daily level, knowledge is shared when one employee asks another for help. The positive e®ects of helping have been studied, but less is known about how helping can be made more e±cient in terms of lowering the costs for the helpers. We investigated how two methods to channel knowledge sharing (bundled help requests and quiet time) a®ect helping e±ciency. Bundling means that help requesters...