Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. Yet we know little about whether this works, with heterogeneity in preferences over postings impacting effectiveness. We propose a performance-ranked serial dictatorship mechanism, whereby bureaucrats sequentially choose desired locations in order of performance. We evaluate this using a two-year fiel...

Mally of the most striking phenomena known from perceptual psychology are a direct result of the first levels of neural processing. In the visual systems of higher animals, the well-known center-surround response to local stimuli is responsible for some of the strongest visual illusions. For example, Mach bands, the Hermann-Hering grid illusion, and the Craik-O'Brian-Comsweet illusion can all b...

It is a long standing open problem to find an explicit description of the stable set polytope of clawfree graphs. Yet more than 20 years after the discovery of a polynomial algorithm for the maximum stable set problem for claw-free graphs, there is even no conjecture at hand today. Such a conjecture exists for the class of quasi-line graphs. This class of graphs is a proper superclass of line g...

Short Title: PDMV deliver CD154 signals to B cells Daniel L. Sprague, Bennett D. Elzey, Scott A. Crist, Thomas J. Waldschmidt, Robert J. Jensen, and Timothy L. Ratliff Department of Urology, University of Iowa Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Iowa Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Immunology Program, Uni...

We practice personal network analysis every day. Each of us is the center of our own universe. We know who our friends are, how they are connected to each other, and what kinds of sociability, help, and information they might provide—from the 1–5 very strong ties that we feel closest with to the 200–2000 acquaintances whom we barely know (Boissevain, 1974; Wellman, 1979; Bernard et al., 1984; M...

In this introduction we discuss the motivation behind the workshop ‘‘Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics’’ of which this special issue constitutes the proceedings. We elaborate on historical and empirical aspects of the desired new epistemology, connect it to the public image of mathematics, and give a summary and an introduction to the contributions to this issue. B. Buldt Department of ...

Denise Rhoney, PhaRm.D., FCCP, FCCM, is Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. W. FRank Peacock, M.D., is Vice Chair, Institute of Emergency Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. Address correspondence to Dr. Rhoney at the Department of Pharmacy Practice, Eugene Appl...