What makes them tick: Challenging the impersonal ethos in International Relations

Self-Adjusting Binary Search Trees: What Makes Them Tick?

Splay trees (Sleator and Tarjan [8]) satisfy the so-called access lemma. Many of the nice properties of splay trees follow from it. What makes self-adjusting binary search trees (BSTs) satisfy the access lemma? We propose a global view of BST algorithms, which allows us to identify general structural properties of algorithms that satisfy the access lemma. As an application of our techniques, we...

What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

E studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms’ profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the pecuniary and nonpecuniary motives of the employees actually working in research and development. Using data on more than 1,700 Ph.D. scientists and engineers, we examine t...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What Makes Coding Activities Challenging?

What do developers do during coding activities, and how can tools more effectively support these activities? What questions are hard to answer, why does investigating and debugging code take so long, and why do bugs occur? The goal of my research is to identify the most important problems developers face using human-computer interaction techniques and use software engineering techniques to desi...

What makes the health system tick?

Between Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft the difference literally is only four characters, but conceptually they are a world apart, as students of sociology (and the Germans) know. For the health care sector, it is a distinction worth appreciating if we want to deliver better quality, safer care. Gesellschaft denotes that official, impersonal web of organizational structures, hierarchies, departme...