There are n graduate students and n faculty members. Each student will be assigned a scholarship by the joint faculty. The socially optimal outcome is tbat the best studcnt should get the most prestigious scholarship, the second-best student should get the second most prcstigious scholarship, and so on. The socially optimal outcome is common knowledge among all faculty members. Each professor w...

W. Liu, B. Turkbey, J. Senegas, S. Remmele, C. Stehning, D. Daar, Y. Pang, M. Bernardo, and P. Choyke Clinical Sites Research Program, Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States, Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States, Sector of Tomographic Imaging, Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany, Molecular Imaging Program, National ...

Multirate ideas for numerical time integration are explained concerning multirated extrapolation and stepsizing. Later parts of the report focus on Rosenbrock-Wanner (ROW) schemes, since those seemed to be most promising for the needs in circuit simulation: The ROW formula applicable to circuit di erential algebraic equations are introduced and changes within the analog circuit simulator Pstar ...

Many athletic activities involve extreme spinal stress, but few involve such extreme forms of spinal mobility as that of circus contortionists. In this study, five female contortionists from a Mongolian circus school, between 20 and 49 years of age, were examined using a 3T cylindrical MR imaging system (Philips Achieva) to assess pathological changes that might be associated with the contortio...

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4 Antonio Albanese, Limei Cheng, Mauro Ursino, Nicolas W. Chbat 5 6 7 8 9 1 Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA 10 2 Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA 11 3 Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, 12 Bologna, Italy 13 4 Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...

In 2013, Royal Philips was two years into a daunting transformation. Following declining financial performance, CEO Frans van Houten aimed to turn the Dutch icon into a “high-performing company” by 2017. This case study examines the challenges of the business-driven IT transformation at Royal Philips, a diversified technology company. The case discusses three crucial issues. First, the case ref...