What makes them tick?

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 Breast Cancer Cells Tick?

In the best articles, generally those dealing with basic Chromosome Puffs research, the combination of depth and accessibility is impressive. One on Hox genes introduces the notion of The Science Times Book of Genetics a conserved body plan among species, illustrating the Edited by Nicholas Wade point with the fauna of Star Trek, and continues with New York: The Lyons Press (1999). 256 pp. an e...

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...