This paper looks at different rules in dissolving a common value partnership when one partner holds proprietary information. In winner’s bid auction (WBA) and loser’s bid auction (LBA), there exists unique mixed strategy equilibrium. “Payoff equivalence” is established in the sense that partners’ expected payoffs are the same under the two auction formats. The informed partner benefits from an ...

Causal analysis techniques support the investigation of incidents and accidents. These include elicitation methods, such as Barrier Analysis, and event-based techniques, for example accident fault trees. Other approaches rely on flow charts, including those within the PRISMA approach and accident models, including the control theory model in STAMP. A further class of causal analysis techniques ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the clinical effectiveness of a stepped care approach over a 12-month period after an acute whiplash injury; to estimate the costs and cost-effectiveness of each strategy including treatments and subsequent health-care costs; and to gain participants' perspective on experiencing whiplash injury, NHS treatment, and recovery within the context of the Managing Injuries of the...

Packet and flow scheduling algorithms for WiMAX has been a topic of interest for a long time since the very inception of WiMAX networks. WiMAX offers advantages particularly in terms of Quality of service it offers over a longer range at the MAC level. In our paper, we propose two credit based scheduling schemes one in which completed flows distributes the left over credits equally to all highe...

Packet and flow scheduling algorithms for WiMAX has been a topic of interest for a long time since the very inception of WiMAX networks. WiMAX offers advantages particularly in terms of Quality of service it offers over a longer range at the MAC level. In our work, we propose two credit based scheduling schemes one in which completed flows distributes the left over credits equally to all higher...

This research concerned the possibilities of natural management ash, which is a waste product obtained in process burning wood chips bio-heating plant. The basis was pot experiment, carried out greenhouse University Warmia and Mazury Olsztyn, Poland. experiment dealt with influence increasing doses biomass ash added to soil on selected properties. used for taken from arable layer (0–25 cm) soil...

BACKGROUND Workplace-based assessments were designed to facilitate observation and structure feedback on the performance of trainees in real-time clinical settings and scenarios. Research in workplace-based assessments has primarily centred on understanding psychometric qualities and performance improvement impacts of trainees generally. An area that is far less understood is the use of workpla...

We analyse the `probable cause' of the 1979 Chicago DC-10 accident using a minimal formalism, and find an omission. The omission is contained in the body of the report. This omission had consequences for the public discussion of this accident, which we show. We conclude that formalism helps in accident reporting by enabling simple consistency and omission checks. We then present a quick overvie...

Business needs in many corporations call for learning outcomes that involve problem solutions, and creating and sharing new knowledge within workplace situations that may involve collaboration among members of a team. We argue that work-based activities (WBA) and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) are appropriate components for courses in such learning situations. Via this approac...