Consider n users vying for shares of a divisible good. Every user i wants as much of the good as possible but has diminishing returns, meaning that its utility Ui(xi) for xi ≥ 0 units of the good is a nonnegative, nondecreasing, continuously differentiable concave function of xi. The good can be produced in any amount, but producing X = ∑n i=1 xi units of it incurs a cost C(X) for a given nonde...

Innovation happens deliberately more often than it does by inspiration. This paper describes disciplines applied by effective multi-disciplinary engineering firms in nurturing innovation in order to produce intellectual property in a variety of domains, from telecommunications to medical instruments. The report arises from a series of in situ observations and interviews in 12 engineering consul...

Resource allocation mechanisms require that routers execute a scheduling discipline that manages buffering of packets during waiting time. Various scheduling algorithms may be implemented to govern packet transmission and control packet loss. Volume of UDP traffic is dramatically increasing due to the widely used P2P and steaming technologies. Unlike TCP, UDP protocol does not have mechanism to...

principle has been widely used in human rights, labor, and gender discourses. It provides for the unequal treatment of fundamentally different cases and may be used in the higher education context to avoid the inequitable tendencies alluded to above. A substantive understanding of equality in partnerships could provide a suitable theoretical framework to achieve the equitable sharing of the ben...

This study recorded nearly 1.5 million citations to measure research productivity of the 4,918 full time faculty members with doctoral degrees at 51 leading US business schools. These schools had been included at least once in the 25 most recent ranking lists produced by three major business publications. This research included lifetime citation counts for each faculty member, and resulted in 1...

In the last three decades, genre of research article, among other genres of academic writings, hasreceived the greatest attention. This attention is due to the vital role that research article plays inthe legitimating of claims and disciplines. Johns and Swales (2002) relate this attention to theintensive review process that research article goes through before getting “valorized and ratifiedby...

This issue of JAMIA contains the first of two sets of papers4 coming out of the Human Brain Project . With one exception, these papers are written by people who are grounded in neuroinformatics (the intersection of neuroscience and bioinformatics). They are working on problems that are analogous to the ones being tackled by researchers in biomedical informatics. Nonetheless, they come at these ...

In this article, Caroline Brown, a literature professor who focuses on American and African Diasporic writing, and Alexia Pollack, a biology professor with expertise in neuropharmacology, recount their experiences teaching across the disciplines in one another's respective classrooms, finding points of intersection and divergence, and creating classroom dialogues from the resultant encounters. ...

A novel interface design approach is presented for navigating and exploring salient intellectual structures inherited in scientific literature. We describe the development of a 3-dimensional knowledge space based on domain modelling and analysis. This is a generic and extensible approach. It demonstrates the potential of a novel interface design metaphor for tracking research frontiers in scien...

Despite centuries of studying abstract nouns, linguists have so far failed to come to unanimous understanding of this category but agree on the ambiguity of the term and the concept itself. The main issue every researcher faces is the lack of clearly defined term ‘abstract’. Moreover, there have been suggested numerous and diverse approaches to distinguishing between abstract and concrete nouns...