The classical secretary problem studies the problem of selecting online an element (a “secretary”) with maximum value in a randomly ordered sequence. The difficulty lies in the fact that an element must be either selected or discarded upon its arrival, and this decision is irrevocable. Constant-competitive algorithms are known for the classical secretary problems (see, e.g., the survey of Freem...

BACKGROUND The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), and the European Union (EU) have encouraged countries to organize occupational health services (OHS) for all working people irrespective of the sector of economy, size of enterprise or mode of employm...

There are few, if any, men who would qualify for the position of Playboy bunny, and there are few, if any, women who would qualify for the position of male lead in a motion picture. However, there are many other occupations in which gender may be irrelevant. People in these jobs include nurses, truck drivers, lawyers, secretaries, and economists. Why is it, then, that these jobs are each charac...

Ever since the first volume of the Encyclopédie was published in 1751, critics have complained about its liberal, and often unacknowledged, borrowings from other sources.1 The impression that this work, often hailed as the masterpiece of the Enlightenment, was merely cobbled together from bits and pieces of other books was reinforced by the composition method of the most prolific contributor, t...

. . .After them, the (scientific) philosophers appear. . .who proclaim that only they are wise and all other mortals are but shadows flapping about. . . . [The philosophers] build uncountable worlds as . . .they hypothesize without hesitation causes for . . .unexplainable things, as if they were secretaries of Nature, architects of all things, as if they appeared among us from a meeting of gods...

Permanent private secretaries to the monarch are not elected, nor they chosen on civil service criteria. They also have no formal legal training, despite fact that their advice can be vital during constitutional crises. We test Ivor Jennings's claim serve as ‘irresponsible advisers’ Crown, who may influence in political disputes, and whether interests. Four case studies include Home Rule crisis...

The most important open conjecture in the context of the matroid secretary problem claims the existence of an O(1)-competitive algorithm applicable to any matroid. Whereas this conjecture remains open, modified forms of it have been shown to be true, when assuming that the assignment of weights to the secretaries is not adversarial but uniformly at random [23, 20]. However, so far, no variant o...