Gamification, roughly the use of game-like elements to motivate us achieve practical ends “in real world,” makes large promises. According Jane McGonigal, gamification can save world by channelling amazing motivational power gaming into pro-social causes ranging from alienation our work global resource scarcity and feeding hungry (McGonigal 2011). Even much more modest aims like improving perso...

Research on value congruence has attempted to explain why value congruence leads to positive outcomes, but few of these explanations have been tested empirically. In this article, the authors develop and test a theoretical model that integrates 4 key explanations of value congruence effects, which are framed in terms of communication, predictability, interpersonal attraction, and trust. These c...

project scheduling   net present value   we consider a project scheduling problem with permitted tardiness and discrete time/resource trade-offs under maximum net present value objective. in this problem, a project consists of a set of sequential phases such that each phase contains one or more sub-projects including activities interrelated by finish-start-type precedence relations with a time ...

Urgent care clinics and emergency departments around the world periodically suffer from extended wait times beyond patient expectations due to surges in flows. The delays arising inadequate staffing levels during these periods have been linked with adverse clinical outcomes. Previous research into forecasting flows has mostly used statistical techniques. These studies also predominately focusse...

Introduction. In 1987, sport was known in the literature as an area representing a traditional male power, strength and violence. 2020, women's became recognized mainstream, which only confirmed similar conclusions made over past years. One of challenges next years women’s activation reaching them through sponsorship communication. This has been facilitated, inter alia, by development its marke...