The World Wide Web (the Web) is the main driving force behind the rapid diffusion of Internet technology. As a result, we are beginning to live a significant part of our lives in Cyberspace. Measuring and monitoring our surroundings is an essential human activity that helps us both to understand and shape the world we live in. Substantial efforts have in the past years been invested into furthe...

The last three decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical work on the organization of firms (Robert Gibbons and John Roberts forthcoming). In parallel, there has been a massive increase in access to microdata which has revealed huge dispersions in productivity. For example, within narrow industries like cement, oak flooring, and block-ice the total factor productivity of plants at the n...

Methods Using a modified version of the SERVQUAL questionnaire, participants were asked to assign a score to each of 10 service quality factors (SQFs) on a 5 point Likert scale to indicate (i) how important they considered each SQF in relation to their attendance at the clinic & (ii) their actual experience that day. Participants were also invited to describe anything they found particularly sa...

Exploratory dives are traditionally the first step for marine scientists to acquire information on a previously unknown area of scientific interest. Manned submersibles have been the platform of choice for such exploration, as they allow a high level of environmental perception by the scientist on-board, and the ability to take informed decisions on what to explore next. However, manned submers...

Given a cryptographic protocol, and some assumptions, can we present everything that can happen, subject to these assumptions? The assumptions may include: (i) some behavior assumed to have occurred, (ii) some keys assumed to be uncompromised, and (iii) some values assumed to have been freshly chosen. An object representing these types of information is called a skeleton. The shapes for a skele...