Uttarakhand, having completed more than 9 years as a separate state, is now poised to embark on a new era of rapid development and inclusive growth. The broad features of the administrative structure and systems, extending from the state to the district and sub-district levels, are now in place, though the problem of shortage of manpower in crucial areas remains. The Eleventh Five Year Plan giv...

This WIP documents the development, implementation efforts, and preliminary results of SUNRISE a unique graduate Fellowship program at George Mason University (GMU) that targets graduate students working in the grade 4-6 school environment. SUNRISE is a new GK-12 project aimed at partnering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) graduate students (Fellows) with elementary and ...

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Building story-based interactive systems are important for entertainment and education. In the storytelling system, a user can change the discourse of the story by talking with the character. The problem is that the scene goals in the realistic situations are complex and often multiple goals make effects to decide the current action. When a user asks something to the character, the character ne...

We study optimal nonuniform pricing in a setting where a customer's demand at the start of a billing period contains a random variable whose realization becomes known by the end of the billing period. In this context, an optional calling plan is a tariff which the consumer must select based on his/her expectations about the random variable, whereas, under a tapered tariff, the consumer's choice...

After becoming operational in 2000, the first years of RHIC’s operation and analysis made a convincing case that the hot and dense QCD matter created at RHIC was strongly interacting and that its evolution could be described in hydrodynamic terms. By the time of the 2007 Long-Range Plan the field’s goals were shifting from qualitatively characterizing the matter created in heavy-ion collisions ...

Recovery is a hard problem in environments where transactions perform work in a cooperative style (e.g., design environments). We propose concepts to control cooperation and recovery within nested transaction hierarchies. By allowing different nodes to run different protocols, we can build so-called recovery spheres with well-defined properties. We characterize those properties and illustrate t...

During the last decade we have engaged in several heretofore separate and at least initially, somewhat independent research initiatives: 1) Virtual teams and collaborative technologies [Ballantine, Becker, et. al.; 1999], [Becker, Ballantine, et. al., 1999, 2001], [Becker; 2003], [Becker and Cline; 2005]; 2) building bridges between researches across the borders of the Americas [Becker and Sanc...

This paper describes seven alternative product recovery strategies that can be pursued by manufacturers. I then develop empirically testable hypotheses based on industrial organization, transaction cost economics, and the resource-based view to predict which strategies are likely to be pursued by different types of companies.