The environmental sustainability has grasped tremendous attention of the government in recent years and different policies have been proposed and implemented to address this issue. One of the most widespread policies to foster environmental sustainability is the government’s supports for the purchases of hybrid vehicles. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 provides tax credits amounting to $3000 at m...

In contrast to the traditional viewpoint of psychopathology, which compulsivity [a repetitive ritualistic behavior which persists albeit its inappropriateness to the given situation and often result in undesirable consequences] and impulsivity [which encompasses actions that are insufficiently conceived, prematurely expressed, excessively risky or inappropriate to the situation, and that often ...

The LSE project is one of 28 projects in several UK Universities, funded by the EPSRC, under the Systems Engineering for Business Process Change (SEBPC) Programme. This is the second award under this Programme made to the LSE Complexity Group. The first was for a one-year preliminary study, which helped to identify the business partners and the specific research questions for the current three-...

How many scientists, while writing a grant proposal, realize that they are producing a marketing document? The answer is, not enough, but the ones who do understand that they are selling their ideas and skills to the grant reviewers are the well-funded ones. The ability to market your ideas is the most critical feature of the art of grant writing. Marketing your research plan of course requires...