The behavioral strategy option of project-based organizations directly influences the quality of construction project. Based on the behavioral game model for the owner, supervision unit and contractor, and analysis of mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for the model, under the analysis framework that project-based organizations’ bounded rationality, this paper treats the supervision unit and contr...

Data privacy continues to be a very important topic, as our dependency on electronic communication maintains its current growth and private data is shared between multiple devices, users and locations. The growing amount and the ubiquitous availability of personal private data increases the likelihood of data misuse, where private data may be used against the privacy preferences of the person t...

Private landowners increasingly are asked to cooperate with landscape-level management to protect or enhance ecological resources. We examine the willingness of nonindustrial private forest owners in the Pacific Northwest (USA) to forego harvesting within riparian areas to improve riparian habitat. An empirical model is developed describing owners’ willingness to accept an economic incentive to...

1. An owner had taken her dog to her regular veterinarian due to her dog seeming weak and unable to walk normally. As there was little noticeable improvement following treatment for arthritis the owner decided to take the dog elsewhere for a second opinion and the dog was diagnosed with a tumour. The owner requested a refund of all fees paid to the first veterinarian. 2. Surgery was performed o...

Owners have often been found to have an advantage in animal contests. One explanation of this is that the resource under dispute is of greater value to the owner than to the intruder (nonowner). Such 'resource value asymmetries' may be caused by intrinsic factors, such as the physiological state of the contestants. Females of the bethylid wasp Goniozus nephantidis fight for possession of paraly...

This paper investigates the sources of the extremely high level of owner occupation in Ireland. After using census data to explore the evolution of this phenomenon, the paper makes a cross-country comparison of owner occupation within the EU-15. Explanations are found for the high level of owner occupation that go beyond fiscal privilege to include wider microeconomic factors, as well as histor...

Background. Dogs are compelling models in which to study obesity since the condition shares many characteristics between humans and dogs. Differences in eating behaviour are recognised to contribute to obesity susceptibility in other species but this has not been systematically studied in dogs. Aim. To develop and validate an owner-reported measure of canine eating behaviour and owner or dog re...

BACKGROUND Chiari-like malformation (CM) and syringomyelia (SM) cause a pain syndrome in Cavalier King Charles spaniels (CKCS). Clinical signs are not consistently apparent on neurologic examination, and owner reporting of signs provides vital clinical history. However, owner questionnaires for this disease are not well developed. OBJECTIVES To develop a tool to capture owner-reported clinica...