Recent results in experimental and personnel economics indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men. This article presents an experimental design which gives participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part of a team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gend...

Purpose – Drawing on recent research related to hospital facilities, this paper aims to discuss the role of evidence-based design in facility planning and design as a key element in helping the field of facility planning and management continue to strengthen professional practice. Design/methodology/approach – The discussion draws on relevant literature and recent research. Findings – Evidence-...

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of Digital storytelling (DST) on the academic achievement, critical thinking, and learning motivation of senior high school students learning English as a foreign language. The one-year study adopted a pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design involving 110 10th grade students in two English classes. The independent variable was informati...

Some branches of phonetics prefer experiments that feature a large number of repetitions and only few unique items. This paper discusses this relatively common experiment design choice, arguing that repetitions do not always help for drawing sound conclusions from phonetic data. It is recommended that phonetic experiments should be designed with less repetitions and more distinct items.

In this paper, a simulation study is carried out to identify potential improvements in the management of a nonautomated distribution warehouse which is located between manufacturers and small retailers. The simulation model has been used to obtain valuable knowledge of the operational characteristics of the warehouse. We aim at understanding the effect of an automatic storage upon the occupied ...

Size is a significant variable in cost/estimation modelling and is widely regarded as one of the most important determinants of effort. The research documented here was carried out in response to problems associated with estimation in project management. This paper discusses some empirical evidence arising from a study of design size estimation. The approach used here is to count the number of ...

Structured imagination refers to reliance upon prior knowledge when generating novel examples of a provided category. Yet studies supporting this tenet use experimental designs where the stimuli themselves cue exemplars based on culturally relevant items. The present study combined exemplar generation with abstract stimuli as a means of attenuating instructional bias. Participants were shown a ...

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Goodness-of-fit tests are proposed for the assumption of normality of random errors in experimental designs where the variance of the response may vary with the levels of the covariates. The exact distribution of standardized residuals is used to make the probability integral transform for use in tests based on the empirical distribution function. A different mean and variance is estimated for ...

In this paper, we motivate the need for collaborative research and design for IT innovation in crisis response and management. We describe the value of such methodology and demonstrate how working alongside users enables creative anticipation of emergent future practices that can inform both more ‘appropriate’ and more ambitious innovation. We demonstrate how co-design methods are particularly ...