Proposal for a Staff-Monitored Program with Executive Board Involvement

Board Involvement, Director Expertise and Executive Incentives

Boards of directors have become more involved in monitoring and advising top management. We investigate how board involvement affects executive incentives in a project investment setting. To increase the probability of project success, the CEO engages in a sequence of tasks: first acquiring information to evaluate a potential project, then reporting his assessment of the project to the board, a...

Initial Steps to Achieve a Disaster-related Statistics Framework in Iran: An Executive Proposal

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A Proposal for Interactive Program Generation

Programming-by-example (PBE) systems attempt to generate programs by learning a task from the user’s actions. It is a field with great potential, but little success so far. Most existing PBE systems are both highly specialised and quite limited in the tasks they can accomplish. This paper sets out a new approach to PBE that is general-purpose and can handle variables, branching and loops. It co...

Basic Epidemiology for Tuberculosis Program Staff

A Proposal for a Targeted Screening Program for Renal Cancer

(8). Incidental renal masses tend to be smaller than symptomatic masses (9), but they are not harmless. In a study of nearly 4,000 patients with incidental renal tumors, 14.4% died of cancer over an average 4-year follow-up, despite treatment (10). Most solid renal masses are presumed to be malignant and excised. There is therefore relatively little data on the natural history of untreated mass...