The history of the study of judgment and decision making has been marked by an iterative tension between what are known as prescriptive and descriptive advances. Prescriptive theories, which typically have their roots in economics, seek to define efficient or optimal decision making. Descriptive empirical advances, with roots typically in psychology, then invariably suggest that these prescript...

Abstract: Innovations, commercialized by new or old established firms, located at the core of industrial renewal process. The innovation concept has suffered transformations, along with the evolution of the models that try to explain and understand the innovation process. The innovative process corresponds to all activities that generate technological changes and the dynamic interaction between...

A trigonometric plate theory is assessed for the static bending analysis of plates resting on Winkler elastic foundation. The theory considers the effects of transverse shear and normal strains. The theory accounts for realistic variation of the transverse shear stress through the thickness and satisfies the traction free conditions at the top and bottom surfaces of the plate without using shea...