Urban rail transit is the construction project under the planning and huge investment of the government. How to effectively conduct investment regulation and control becomes the core question that the government departments are concerned about. In this paper, the relations among government, owner and contractor are studied and the static and dynamic game model is built for behaviors among each ...

We study a discounted repeated inspection game with two agents and one principal. Both agents may pro t by violating certain rules, while the principal can inspect on at most one agent in each period, in icting a punishment on an agent who is caught violating the rules. The goal of the principal is to minimize the discounted number of violations, and he has a Stackelberg leader advantage. We ch...

This article explores 1 mechanism by which leader personality affects organizational performance. The authors hypothesized and tested the effects of leader personality on the group dynamics of the top management team (TMT) and of TMT dynamics on organizational performance. To test their hypotheses, the authors used the group dynamics q-sort method, which is designed to permit rigorous, quantita...

the scope of power of governments is one of the main issues in political philosophy and constitutional law. this issue has become significant in islamic republic of iran as an absolute spiritual leadership has been contemplated in the iranian constitution. as the rule of law indicates that all governmental acts must be based on law, it may be assumed that dissolution of khobregan house (expert ...

Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this dissemination of information in communi...

Existing models of the evolution of social behavior typically involve innate strategies such as tit-for-tat. Yet, both behavioral and neural evidence indicates a substantial role for learned social behavior. We explore the evolutionary dynamics of two simple social behaviors among learning agents: Theft and punishment. In our simulation, agents employ Q-learning, a common reinforcement learning...

Leader election protocols are a fundamental building block for replicated distributed services. They ease the design of leader-based coordination protocols that tolerate failures. In partially synchronous systems, designing a leader election algorithm, that does not permit multiple leaders while the system is unstable, is a complex task. As a result many production systems use third-party distr...

Steven Medvetz is currently leading market development and commercialization of turbine filtration products with W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., in Elkton, Maryland. Previously, he was a regional business leader for GORE-TEX® fabrics for industrial, governmental, and commercial applications. He spent 22 years at Monsanto Chemical Company in various business leadership and market development role...

Column Marilyn A. DeLuca, PhD, RN, is a leader in global health, systems, and workforce. Principal of the consultant practice Global Health-Health Systems-Philanthropy, she works with multilateral organizations, policy makers, non-governmental organizations, foundations, and donors. Lead editor of the book Transforming the Global Health Workforce (DeLuca and Soucat, 2013), she is a registered p...