In the following a brief commentary is given on a new European project that aims to provide the European countries with recommendations for the care of children and yound adults with rheumatic diseases. These recommendations will be based on surveys sent to PRINTO members and systematic literature reviews. Surveys on current local standard of care and best practice will be send to PRINTO member...

The knowledge required for decision making in a firm is distributed across various departments. In practice cross functional teams are used to integrate this distributed knowledge. Incentive schemes are of crucial importance to encourage departments to share knowledge. In this paper, we study different incentive schemes by means of a two stage model. In the first step departments have to choose...

OURMINE is an environment for developing and sharing data mining experiments. Adding new tools to OURMINE, in a variety of languages, is a rapid and simple process. This makes it a useful research tool. OURMINE also has pedagogical advantages. Complicated graphical interfaces have been eschewed for simple commandline prompts. This simplifies the learning curve for data mining novices. The simpl...

This paper presents a new extension of the Rubinstein-St̊ahl bargaining model to the case with n players, called sequential share bargaining. The bargaining protocol is natural and has as its main feature that the players’ shares in the cake are determined sequentially. The bargaining protocol requires unanimous agreement for proposals to be implemented. Unlike all existing bargaining protocols ...

To evaluate the R&D development in China, we can inspect both the R&D expenditure and the research talent pool. In this paper, we analyze the structure of the researcher groups by using dynamic shift-share analysis (DSSA). The DSSA results show that there is still much room to improve in the structure of research group. The provinces/municipalities from eastern China did not perform well in eng...

The aim of this research was to determine the impact of voluntary information disclosure on informational content of share price. In this regard, future earnings response coefficient was used to determine the informational content of the share price about the future income information. Furthermore, share price synchronicity was used to evaluate the informational content of the share price about...

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact earnings per share (EPS) and dividends (DPS) on value company Indonesian stock exchange for period 2014-2017. This uses data from 6 food industry companies listed Stock Exchange examine these variables. Multiple regression models are used determine effect earning dividend share. results research show that separately have a significant positive ...