since it was first diagnosed in 1914 in marrakesh, schistosomiasis has been a public health problem in morocco for decades. a national control program launched in 1982 has led to a considerable reduction in the incidence and morbidity associated with the disease. consequently, the program has shifted from disease control to an elimination process launched in 1994. this process aimed to eliminat...

teams are defined as high performing task groups whose members are actively interdependent and share common performance objectives. this definition suggests that only those groups who perform at high levels due to their collective efforts must be considered as teams. in this paper, a model has been presented for de-termining the effects of information technology in the output of teamwork with y...

Team ARAIBO (Advanced Robotics with Artificial Intelligence for Ball Operation) has taken part in RoboCup since 1999. Even though we could not get the top three positions in Four-legged Robot League, we have proposed several novel issues such as jumping heading, uniform Monte Carlo localization, dynamic programming, memory squeeze by strategy maps and so forth. We always tried to introduce theo...

Turf wars in organizations commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide...

This paper provides an internal look at the thoughts and activities of American interactive television (iTV) executives and producers circa 2002. Based on in-depth interviews it first suggests a comprehensive definition of the US iTV landscape. Then, by providing a case study of three pioneering iTV productions, it examines the organizational aspects of producing interactive television through ...