4 To survive unpredictable environmental change, many organisms adopt bet-hedging 5 strategies that trade short-term population growth for long-term fitness benefits. Be6 cause the benefits of bet-hedging may manifest over long time intervals, bet-hedging 7 strategies may be out-competed by strategies maximizing short-term fitness. Here, we 8 investigate the interplay between two drivers of sel...

We wish to understand how companies should set the service-levels provided by their operations. To this end, we use the measures of customer loyalty obtained in [5] to develop simple, normative models for suppliers seeking to maximize long-run average profits. The results provide insight to suppliers on the level of service they should offer.

The increased IT offshoring presents many benefits as well as challenges to today's organizations. One major challenge is the competition between the onshore and offshore sites or among the global sites in the offshoring relationship for job security, challenging projects, status and resources. The competition in offshoring relationships is complex and dynamic. Unmanaged or inappropriately mana...

In the iterated prisoner’s dilemma game, new successful strategies are regularly proposed especially outperforming the well-known tit for tat strategy. New forms of reasoning have also recently been introduced to analyse the game. They lead W. Press and F. Dyson [4] to a double infinite family of strategies that -theoreticallyshould all be efficient strategies. We study and confront using sever...

OBJECTIVES Anecdotally many athletes report worse sleep in the nights prior to important competitions. Despite sleep being acknowledged as an important factor for optimal athletic performance and overall health, little is understood about athlete sleep around competition. The aims of this study were to identify sleep complaints of athletes prior to competitions and determine whether complaints ...

in competitive markets, the operations strategies of companies are normally formulated based on their competitive advantages. an effective operations strategy should maintain and improve competitive advantages based on the capabilities of the corporate operations resources. considering the market requirements and the operational performance of the rivals is the key for success and survival of a...

Sexual selection results from variation in success at multiple stages in the mating process, including competition before and after mating. The relationship between these forms of competition, such as whether they trade-off or reinforce one another, influences the role of sexual selection in evolution. However, the relationship between these 2 forms of competition is rarely quantified in the wi...