A large conglomerate such as a property/casualty insurance firm in this case, can be divided along business boundaries. This division might be along commercial lines, homeowner lines and perhaps across countries. An insurance firm’s capital can be interpreted as a buffer that protects the company from insolvency and its inability to pay policyholder losses. Rare events have been simulated over ...

We propose that searching for and transferring knowledge across divisions in a diversified firm can cultivate innovation. Using a sample of 211,636 patents from 1,644 companies during the period 1985–96, we find that the use of interdivisional knowledge positively affects the impact of an invention on subsequent technological developments. Furthermore, the positive effect of the use of interdiv...

As a precursor to work on QCD, we study the dressed electron in QED nonperturbatively. The calculational scheme uses an invariant mass cutoff, discretized light-cone quantization, a Tamm–Dancoff truncation of the Fock space, and a small photon mass. Nonperturbative renormalization of the coupling and electron mass is developed. Paper submitted to the 1996 Annual Divisional Meeting (DPF96) of th...

The tracings of two patients with acute myocardial infarction showing complete right bundle branch block and alternating block in the divisions of the left branch are presented. Both developed a type II (Mobitz) block which was attributed to a simultaneous interruption of conduction in the three main intraventricular tracts (trifascicular block). Left divisional blocks produced specific changes...

The impact of introducing a divisional psychiatric service based in the community in Nottingham in 1981 on adult psychiatric admissions (patients aged 15-65) was examined with data from the Nottingham case register. During 1980-5 the number of psychiatric admissions fell significantly (4.5% a year) compared with the national figures (0.46% a year). Admissions were reduced most for the diagnoses...

Abstract In era of reglobalization, sustainably resilient supply chains (SCs) are imperative in corporations to improve performance and meet stockholders’ expectations. However, SCs could not be effective if assessed by using advanced frameworks, systems, models. As such, developing a novel network data envelopment model (DEA) appraise is our purpose this article. To do so, we present new doubl...

Abstract In the present research, we proposed a scheme to address issues of severe heat damage, high energy consumption, low cooling system efficiency, and wastage cold capacity in mines. To elucidate seasonal variations environmental temperature through field measurements, selected high-temperature working face deep mine as our engineering background. enhance damage control cability minimize u...

This paper addresses the problem of allocating resources in a divisionalized firm. The firm consists of II distinct divisions. Inputs have to be allocated across the divisions and the profit function of each division may in general depend on the whole allocation of inputs. The manager of the firm does not know the divisional profit functions and yet would like to allocate resources in a profit-...

On March 14, 2011 and March 28, 2011, Divisional Council (DIVCO) discussed the draft document, Online course evaluation: access to evaluation data, context & recommendations, informed by the comments of the committees on Budget and Interdepartmental Relations (BIR) and Educational Policy (CEP). DIVCO endorsed the committee comments, which are appended in their entirety. We also discussed the su...