Previously it has been found that an important risk buffering strategy in the Saami reindeer husbandry in Norway is the accumulation of large herds of reindeer as this increases long-term household viability. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated how official policies, such as economic compensation for livestock losses, can influence pastoral strategies. This study investigated the effect...

The arrival of spring means yet another round in the national debate over executive compensation. But the critics have it wrong. The relentless attention on how much CEOs are paid diverts public attention from the real problem-how CEOs are paid. The authors present an in-depth statistical analysis of executive compensation. The study incorporates data on thousands of CEOs spanning five decades....

We describe a reflection scheme that allows Bragg-spaced semiconductor quantum wells to be used to trap, store, and release light. We study the temporal and spectral distortion of delayed light pulses and show that this geometry allows multibit delays and offers a high degree of distortion compensation.

Is it time for a vaccine injury compensation scheme in Australia? The answer in part requires an assessment of how well the current ‘modified common law’ system serves to compensate those who suffer vaccine injuries. By considering the basic approach of the current common law1 and looking at cases previously decided, it should become possible to reach an informed conclusion on the relative meri...

This paper deals with the coding of the partition information resulting from the segmentation of video se quences Motion compensation of partition sequences is described as an e cient inter frame mode of coding It involves the prediction of the partition the computation of the partition compensation error the simpli cation of the error and its transmission The major issues and processing steps ...

The phenomenon of entropy-enthalpy (S-H) compensation is widely invoked as an explanatory principle in thermodynamic analyses of proteins, ligands, and nucleic acids. It has been suggested that this compensation is an intrinsic property of either complex, fluctuating, or aqueous systems. The questions examined here are whether the observed compensation is extra-thermodynamic (i.e., reflects any...

According to the widely used Managerial Power Model, a higher hierarchical position with associated higher power leads to higher compensation. In contrast, the Compensating Wage Differentials Model argues that there is a non-positive relationship between positional power and total compensation. Both power and income yield utility and in equilibrium managers are prepared to trade-off the two ele...

In this paper we present the design of tow robust nonlinear controllers for two mechanical problems of rejecting disturbances such as eccentricity and friction compensation. In the eccentricity compensation problem, the considered disturbances are here assumed to be produced by eccentricity in mechanical systems and drives, the frequency and amplitude of this disturbance is unknown. The objecti...

Compensation is a widely used concept for maintaining atomicity in both the advanced transaction models and transactional workflow systems. Some Web service protocols also adopt the compensation mechanism for failure recovery when providing transaction management. However, the compensation mechanisms used in these models or protocols are too fixed and cannot satisfy the various requirements of ...