What use is technology if no one uses it? This question underscores the critical interaction between people and technology, highlighting importance of understanding underlying psychological factors that influence uptake. study focuses on corporate decision-makers who are “gatekeepers” to introduction new technologies by their organizations. The offshore oil gas industry has been characteriz...

In this paper we analyze biased Maker-Breaker games and Avoider-Enforcer games, both played on the edge set of a random board G ∼ G(n, p). In Maker-Breaker games there are two players, denoted by Maker and Breaker. In each round, Maker claims one previously unclaimed edge of G and Breaker responds by claiming b previously unclaimed edges. We consider the Hamiltonicity game, the perfect matching...

The MPCS Plug Maker is a microcapillary-based protein-crystallization system for generating diffraction-ready crystals from nanovolumes of protein. Crystallization screening using the Plug Maker was used as a salvage pathway for proteins that failed to crystallize during the initial observation period using the traditional sitting-drop vapor-diffusion method. Furthermore, the CrystalCards used ...

This paper studies a decision maker who for each choice set selects a subset of (at most) two alternatives. We axiomatize three types of procedures: (i) The top two: the decision maker has in mind an ordering and chooses the two maximal alternatives. (ii) The two extremes: the decision maker has in mind an ordering and chooses the maximal and the minimal alternatives. (iii) The top and the top:...

We consider a decision maker who can select one of a finite set of possible actions, each of which will result in one of a finite set of possible outcomes. If the decision maker has preferences over these outcomes, it will naturally prefer taking some actions to others, but may be uncertain of the result of each action. In this paper we describe how a decision maker can elicit expert prediction...

We consider unbiased Maker-Breaker games played on the edge set of the complete graph Kn on n vertices. Quite a few such games were researched in the literature and are known to be Maker’s win. Here we are interested in estimating the minimum number of moves needed for Maker in order to win these games. We prove the following results, for sufficiently large n: (1) Maker can construct a Hamilton...

This paper offers an explanation for why policy makers stick to inefficient policy decisions. I argue that repealing a policy is a bad signal to voters about the policy maker’s competence if voters do not have complete knowledge about the effects of implemented policies. I derive the optimal policy maker’s decision on continuation of a policy, assuming that voters’ beliefs about the policy make...

This paper presents the new boundary condition implemented in the LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil) SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics) numerical model based on the SPHysics model and on a standard SPH formulation: This piston-type wave-maker now includes dynamic wave absorption and allows the simulation of a semi-infinite flume. Verification of the active wave-maker absorption ...

The exchange maker-taker pricing scheme affects incentives to take or make markets resulting in narrower bid-ask spreads. This study traces the effect of maker-taker pricing on stock quotations. The analyses consider distributions of quotation sizes, values implied from these sizes, and changes in these sizes and values. The results help inform the current debate on whether tick sizes should be...

A market maker sets prices over time for wagers that pay out contingent on the future state of the world. The market maker has knowledge of the probability of realizing each state of the world, and of how the price of a bet affects the probability that traders will accept it. We compare the optimal policy for risk-neutral (expected utility maximizing) and Kelly criterion (expected log-utility m...