Action sometimes takes precedence over thought because entrepreneurs need immediate decision-making and opportunity capture to prepare for the changing environment. Entrepreneurs use many prejudices heuristics simplify situations, underestimate extent of risks they face, or overestimate their capabilities, believing can predict future control uncontrollable situations. There have been studies o...

UNLABELLED Uncontrollable, compared with controllable, painful stimulation can lead to increased pain perception and activation in pain-processing brain regions, but it is currently unknown which brain areas mediate this effect. When pain is controllable, the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) seems to inhibit pain processing, although it is unclear how this is achieved. Using fMRI in healthy volu...

This paper provides an application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the measurement of the relative efficiency of highway maintenance operations within eight counties across the state of Virginia over the fiscal years 2003 to 2007. Selection of controllable and uncontrollable factors that are appropriate for the evaluation of efficiency performance is discussed. Regression Analysis, Analyt...

This paper expands upon results of previous research dealing with the supervisory control of Petri net modeled discrete event systems that contain uncontrollable transitions. The concept of unobservable plant transitions is introduced here and incorporated into the controller design procedure. New conditions are developed which govern the existence of controllers for these problems. Two procedu...

The representation of the desired behaviour of a logical discrete-event system (DES), using predicates and associated sets of blocking events, is introduced. The control of a regular DES consists in blocking events when a predicate concerning the system behaviour becomes true. If a blocking event is uncontrollable an algorithm is given which transforms the associated “uncontrollable” predicates...

Background Nasal pretreatment with the neuropeptide oxytocin has been reported to prevent stress-induced impairments in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial memory in rats. However, no study has asked if oxytocin application following a stress experience is effective in rescuing stress-induced impairments. Methods Synaptic plasticity was measured in hippocampal Schaffer collateral-CA1 ...

Compulsive exercise is a condition described since 1970s. It is characterized by a craving for physical training, resulting in uncontrollable excessive exercise behavior with harmful consequences, such as injuries and impaired social relations. It has not been accepted as a mental disorder in either International Classification of Diseases or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder...

Network protocols, as the communication rules among computer network devices, are foundation for normal operation of networks. However, security issues arising from design flaws and implementation vulnerabilities in protocols pose significant risks to operations security. protocol fuzzing is an effective technique discovering mitigating protocols. It offers unparalleled advantages compared othe...