We consider a simple tournament model with two stages and compare two information conditions: Either intermediate information on the subjects’ relative positions after the first stage is available or it is not. According to our theoretical predictions, equilibrium behavior in both stages is not affected by intermediate information. In laboratory experiments, we also find no difference between a...

Environmental scanning is the acquisition and use of information about events, trends, and relationships in an organization's external environment, the knowledge of which would assist management in planning the organization's future course of action. Depending on the organization's beliefs about environmental analyzability and the extent that it intrudes into the environment to understand it, f...

Tracks:  eHealth technology and devices  eHealth data records  eHealth information processing  eHealth systems and communications  Telemedicine/eHealth applications  Telemedicine/eHealth services  Social and financial aspects  Classical medicine and eHealth integration  Preventative eHealth systems  Challenges of large-scale, cost-effective eHealth systems  Nurse team applications  ...

There exist different ways how to understand and use context information for RDF data. This paper summarizes these different ways and concentrates on the source information. It shows what can be achieved by knowing the source information and will present the RDF-Source related Storage System (RDF-S3). RDF-S3 is an application implementing one way to keep track of the source information for each...

AIMS To describe the globalized sector of the alcoholic beverage industry, including its size, principal actors and activities. METHODS Market research firms and business journalism are the primary sources for information about the global alcohol industry, and are used to profile the size and membership of the three main industry sectors of beer, distilled spirits and wine. FINDINGS Branded...