There is no more important responsibility for a board of directors than the selection and removal of the CEO, along with monitoring and evaluating the CEO’s performance. There is also no greater negative impact that a dysfunctional and divided board might have than on the CEO selection and removal process. Three recent cases demonstrate the importance of that claim – Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, and...

Natural visual scenes are cluttered and contain many different objects that cannot all be processed simultaneously. Therefore, attentional mechanisms are needed to select relevant and to filter out irrelevant information. Evidence from functional brain imaging reveals that attention operates at various processing levels within the visual system and beyond. First, the lateral geniculate nucleus ...

No synthetic restorative material used to reproduce natural tooth structure can match the combination of ideal qualities of functional strength and optical or esthetic display that exists in nature. Maintaining as much natural tooth structure as possible is a goal when doing restorative dentistry, especially when done for elective purposes. While less tooth reduction is a desirable goal, there ...

Mining opinions in free text so as to separate the opinionated and the relevant content in text is a challenging research problem. People and organizations that are considering the adoption of Open-Source Software (OSS), or that need to choose among different OSS products are interested in knowing the user community’s opinion, since this can provide useful indications about the strengths and li...

Numerous studies have demonstrated that firms consider multiple criteria when selecting key suppliers. In this study, we present, based on econometric choice modeling framework, how manufacturing managers/executives tradeoff between cost, delivery, flexibility, and service features in the supplier selection process, given acceptable quality. Empirical data for this study was collected from manu...

The selection of proper materials for different components is one of the most challenging tasks in engineer’s activity. The traditional approach to the selection of materials required looking through the literature and material safty data sheets.With the development of information technology, engineering work has also changed. It involves not only arduous browsing catalogues and guides but also...

A number of e-Processes (i.e. software processes for developing e-Commerce information systems) are available in industry. It is difficult to select the best suited e-Process for a case at hand. At the same time this selection is important because functionality and quality of any system under development will depend on the instantiated software process. The knowledge required for the selection ...

Statistical properties of the process describing the genealogical history of a random sample of genes are obtained for a class of population genetics models with selection. For models with selection, in contrast to models without selection, the distribution of this process, the coalescent process, depends on the distribution of the frequencies of alleles in the ancestral generations. If the anc...

Supplier’s Selection is one among the foremost essential activities of supply chain management. Supplier’s Selection could be an advanced activity involving qualitative and quantitative multi-criteria. A trade-off between these tangible and intangible factors is essential in choosing the most effective Supplier.This paper explains the various methodsfor supplier selection and the use of AHP in ...

The pipeline route selection process focuses on achieving the optimal location for a pipeline. Even though this is the desired process outcome, in reality it is counter to data and information collection efforts that are concentrated on identifying and inventorying locations for pipeline avoidance. Changing and aligning the routing mindset from output (pipeline route) to input (discipline infor...