Diagnostic opportunism in BAH

Choice? Bah! Humbug!

Discriminatory Opportunism

When can a firm cheat some individuals without damaging its reputation among others? We develop a model of discriminatory opportunism in which firms can treat all employees fairly, take advantage of all employees, or only take advantage of a subpopulation of employees. If employees believe that an act of opportunism against any employee portends opportunism against all employees, concern for re...

Control not at initiation? Bah, humbug!

Initiation is often assumed to be rate-limiting for protein synthesis, but the presence of rare codons nonetheless can influence protein levels. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Chu et al report that when rare codons are positioned near the start of the coding region, 'liberation' of the initiation codon for loading of the next 40S subunit may be rate‐limiting for initiation and therefore ove...

Does opportunism pay off?

In Portugal, increases in investment expenditures and changes in the composition of spending favouring highly visible items are associated with higher vote percentages for incumbent mayors seeking re-election. The political payoff to opportunistic spending increased after democracy became well-established in the country. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Opportunism without Deliberation?

Recently, increasing attention has been given to the problem of how to produce goal-directed behaviour in the real world. The approaches taken vary along a spectrum from trying to extend the scope of classical planning techniques in systems such as Cassandra (Pryor & Collins 1996) and BURIDAN (Kushmerick, Hanks, Weld 1995); via including execution in plan construction systems such as Sage (Knob...