Business and Organizational Psychology, Department of Computational and Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 65, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Rue de Faucigny 2, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Research Institute for Organizational Psychology, University of St. Gallen, Varnbüelstrasse 19, CH-9000 St. G...

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In the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution. While the typical reader may think of Dickensian mills when hearing of the Industrial Revolun the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution. It’s commonly believed that this era opened as new inventions improved...

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In the volume 38 of IIE Transactions (2006), Dolgui et al. introduced a line balancing problem in the machining environment, characterized by a number of particularities in comparison with the well-studied assembly line balancing problem, for example, parameterized operation times, non-strict precedence constraints and simultaneous operations performing. An exact method based on MIP formulation...

This paper analyzes a class of singular control problems for which value functions are not necessarily smooth. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the well-known smooth fit principle, along with the regularity of the value functions, are given. Explicit solutions for the optimal policy and for the value functions are provided. In particular, when payoff functions satisfy the usual Inada con...

Anthracnose basal rot (Colletotrichum cereale) is a common and difficult to control disease of annual bluegrass (Poa annua) putting greens. While various cultural practices and fertility programs have been developed to reduce disease symptoms, fungicides are generally required to provide additional suppression. Due to the fact that anthracnose is generally more severe on under fertilized turfgr...

This paper presents some of the results of a study aimed at investigating and optimizing possible Interference Mitigation techniques for wideband fixed-service satellite systems. In particular this paper discusses the performance improvements that can be achieved in the user-to-Hub link (Reverse-Link, RL) of a multibeam satellite system by using more advanced processing techniques than those im...

Four bacterial strains, Pseudomonas chlororaphis (PA-23), Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (BS6), Pseudomonas sp. (DF41) and B. amyloliquefaciens (E16) which had been found to have biocontrol activity in vitro assays against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, the causal agent of stem rot of canola, were tested for their efficacy in greenhouse and field conditions. Microscopic studies showed that P. chlororaph...