A tournament is an oriented complete graph, and one containing no directed cycles is called transitive. A tournament T= (V,A) is called m-partition transitive if there is a partition V=X1∪· X2∪· · · ·∪· Xm such that the subtournaments induced by each Xi are all transitive, and T Contract grant sponsor: University of Dayton Research Council (to A. H. B.); Contract grant sponsor: National Science...

Essential Documents also serve a number of other important purposes. Filing essential documents at the investigator/institution and sponsor sites in a timely manner can greatly assist in the successful management of a trial by the investigator, sponsor, and monitor. These documents are also the ones that are usually audited by the sponsor's independent audit function and inspected by the regula...

Many of our discussions with practitioners and theorists brought out the problem of lagging diffusion of Interorganisational Systems (IOS). In spite of the Internet revolution and growing numbers of EDI users, acceptance of IOS has been rather slow, measured by the technology’s potentials. Where IOS systems have been implemented, they often have to struggle against the handicap of underutilizat...

This paper describes a generic, knowledge-based mechanism used to make selections between a xed set of alternatives. The mechanism, termed sponsor-selector has been used as a control mechanism in a number of diierent knowledge-based systems including design, planning and problem-solver integration applications. We will discuss the general applicability of the sponsor-selector mechanism and desc...

The economic value of participation sport has been reported to eclipse spectator sport significantly. However, scholars have acknowledged the relative lack of research on this important segment of the sport market. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between runner identity and race sponsor effectiveness. Surveys were sent to participants in the Las Vegas Rock ‘n ’ Roll Ma...

Psychological ownership brings new perspective to understand individual behaviors in organization, team, and the information system areas. In this research we use this theory to investigate how to improve sponsor experience in the context of reward-based crowdfunding. We propose that psychological ownership is one important mental state for sponsors in crowdfunding. The research model in this s...

Erick Turner Emma Veitch cites my PLoS Medicine Essay [1] about how the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) review of documents can serve as a source of clinical trials data, but she follows it up with the statement, “However, it is diffi cult to have confi dence in data released by sponsors when the data have not been subjected to external, independent peer review. Furthermore, this informa...

Erick Turner Emma Veitch cites my PLoS Medicine Essay [1] about how the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) review of documents can serve as a source of clinical trials data, but she follows it up with the statement, “However, it is diffi cult to have confi dence in data released by sponsors when the data have not been subjected to external, independent peer review. Furthermore, this informa...

A biclique of a graph G is a maximal induced complete bipartite subgraph of G. Given a graph G, the biclique matrix of G is a {0,1,−1} matrix having one row for each biclique and one column for each vertex of G, and such that a pair of 1, −1 entries in a same row corresponds exactly to adjacent vertices in the corresponding biclique. We describe a characterization of biclique matrices, in simil...