It was hypothesized that occupational health and safety (OHS) inspectors who prefer to use autonomy supportive tactics to resolve workplace conflicts (e.g. providing rationale, choices) would be more effective in resolving industry non-compliance with OHS regulations, compared to inspectors who prefer to use coercive tactics (e.g. deadlines, pressure). Preferences for resolving work conflicts w...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the development and execution of the "Creative Solutions" Benson & Hedges advertising campaign to understand its social, political, and commercial implications. METHODS Searches of the Philip Morris documents and Legacy Tobacco Documents websites for relevant materials; Lexis/Nexis searches of major news and business publications; and denotative and connotative analyses o...

Sexual conflict over mating rate is both pervasive and evolutionarily costly. For females, the lifetime reproductive fitness costs that arise through interactions with potential mates will be influenced by the frequency of such interactions, and the fitness cost of each interaction. Both of these factors are likely to be influenced by variation in operational sex ratio (OSR) and population dens...

Research on rebel behavior during conflicts has traditionally focused the use of violent tactics. However, evidence from several intrastate wars suggests that armed groups also occasionally employ general strikes—a method civil resistance typically been associated with nonviolent groups. But when do rebels resort to strikes? I argue these tactics have a particular function which can offset pote...

A methodology for resolving collision conflicts of many moving robots involving distributed cooperative behavior is proposed in this work. Robots are unaware of the goals and plans of other robots. Each robot is however assumed to be in knowledge of the current states of other robots within a given range of vision. The current state of a robot is represented by its current and target velocities...

Objectives: The current study was designed to explain the causal relationship between irrational beliefs and the marital satisfaction based on the mediating role of the conflict resolution behavior and the marital stress. Methods: The research had a descriptive-correlational design and the statistical population of the study consisted of all married men and women living in Tehran in 1398, fro...

Conflict-Based Search (CBS) is a state-of-the-art algorithm for multi-agent path finding. On the high level, CBS repeatedly detects conflicts and resolves one of them by splitting current problem into two subproblems. Previous work chooses conflict to resolve categorizing three classes always picking from highest-priority class. In this work, we propose an oracle selection that results in small...