Fatigue is a recognised problem in the transport industry. It has been attributed to two main influences: time of day and the time since last sleep. While the role of these two influences in producing fatigue is not disputed, there is less agreement on how they interact with one another. The aim of this study was to examine the relative effects of time of day and sleep deprivation on fatigue an...

Prior studies have shown that the IT innovation capability, a company's ability to innovate systematically with IT, is not easily replicated (persistent), and the persistence tends to be more pronounced during periods when economy-wide IT budgets are declining (hard IT budgets), such the post-Y2K period. Building on resource based view we argue that companies that systematically innovate with I...

Award Number: W81XWH-08-1-0108 TITLE: The role of eIF4E activity in breast cancer PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Thomas A Hughes CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9-0000 REPORT DATE: August 2010 TYPE OF REPORT: Annual PREPARED FOR: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT:  Approved for public release; distribution ...

We examine the state of game theory. Many important questions have been answered, and game theoretic methods are now central to much economic investigation. We suggest areas where further advances are important, and argue that models of learning and of social preferences provide promising routes for improving and widening game theory’s predictive power, while preserving the sucesses of existing...

Abstract This study reexamines a lynchpin of Neo-Babylonian Levantine Phoenician historiography: Nebuchadnezzar II’s purported thirteen-year siege Tyre in the early sixth century bce . detail about length can be found only Josephus’ (first ce ) writings, but this study’s new assessment (sixth-fifteenth manuscript evidence shows that more commonly transmitted was “three years and ten months.” Ot...

The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University (LISD) convened a special seminar, “Grand Strategy and Self-Determination,” at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on November 19-20, 2014. This Liechtenstein Colloquium (LCM) commemorated the twenty-year anniversary of the Liechtenstein Initiative on the study of self-determin...