Nation-Branding. Considerations on the Obsession for Capitalizing Culture

Nation branding: A case study of Singapore

Medical education: capitalizing on the lecture method.

Capitalizing on Conflict: The FORR Architecture

FORR is a general architecture for learning and problem solving. Its design harnesses multiple, disagreeing perspectives on a domain and learns to make intelligent choices from their conflicting advice. FORR has been implemented in Hoyle, a program that learns to play two-person, perfect information board games. A FORR-based program is modular, robust in the face of error or lack of information...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Capitalizing on Knowledge:

Corporation managers make informed decisions based upon a combination of judgments and knowledge from various departments such as marketing, sales, research, development, manufacturing, and finance. Ideally, all relevant knowledge should be brought together before a judgment is exercised. However, determining the knowledge requirements and obtaining pertinent, consistent and up-to-date knowledg...