The Command and Control theory of John Boyd, a 20 century military strategist, allow us to introduce computing techniques that are able to speed up the OODA loop (Observe–Orient–Decide–Act), especially on observing and orienteering steps. This paper introduces a low cost framework capable of monitoring people, vehicles, boats, or any other elements of interest, almost in real time. The goal of ...

Computerized performance monitoring systems (CPMS) are pervasive, and there is speculation, as well as survey and case study evidence in the literature, that they might cause ill effects on performance, and might increase worker stress. This laboratory study investigated possible impacts of CPMS on physiological and perceived stress, as well as on the performance of the subjects. The study invo...

The work on this chapter was done while Joseph Schwartz was a graduate student at Harvard University (with support from National Science Foundation Grant SOC76-24394, Harrison White, principal investigator) and Christopher Winship was a research associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. This research was supported in part by funds granted to the Institute for Research on Poverty at th...

nfl S it, HERE HAS BEEN considerable concern about the size of the federal deficit and the rather modest success of the Gramm-RudmanHollings Act to reduce it. The traditional, that is, Keynesian, view of deficit spending in macroeconomics was that it could smooth out fluctuations in economic activity due to gaps between saving and investment that were primarily the result of exogenous shifts in...

lndustrial disputes in general are settled through the mechanism of collective bargaining at the initial stage. The failure of collective bargaining leads the disputes to the system of conciliation under the statutory compulsion. The lndustrial Disputes Act 1947 under Section 2(K) defines the industrial dispute as "any dispute or difference between employers and employers or between employers a...

This paper adresses some of the intellectual property Issues which arose during the planning and production of SIULLEQ, a Danish multimedia project about Greenland and its culture. They include copyright, moral rights ("droite morale") and the Implications of the Danish Data Protection Act in relation to the creation, use and downloading of materials by different categories of end users. As reg...

In July of 2013, Taiwan passed its Wetland Conservation Act and will begin the implementation of the Act on 2 February 2015. With this Act, Taiwan has become the second Asian country to have specific legislation on wetland conservation and protection. This new law enables the society to achieve sustainable utilization on wetland ecological services. The core concepts of the Wetland Conversation...

In this paper, we construct a new indexmeasuring the strength of intellectual property (IP) protection for plant varieties in 69 countries over the period 1961–2011. We examine the statistical properties of the index and compare it with other indicators of IP protection. We conclude that the index provides a reasonable synthetic assessment of the relative strength of IP protection in plant vari...

HOSE WHO WISH to determine why banks fail typically focus on the characteristics of banks and their local markets that make them vulnerable to losses.1 A key factor often overlooked, however, is capital injections by shareholders. A bank whose losses exceed its capital need not fail, if its shareholders (existing or new) inject sufficient additional funds to restore its capital ratio to a level...