The performance of food and beverages manufacturing firms is important to the development economy this has been considered by researchers. In Nigeria, decline in productivity sector noticed which could be as a result lack quality management practices such leadership behaviour, strategic planning, supplier management, process customer focus. study investigated effect on selected Lagos State, Nig...

Memoires by eminently creative people often describe architectural spaces and qualities they believe instrumental for their creativity. However, places designed to encourage creativity have had mixed results, with some found to decrease creative productivity for users. This may be due, in part, to lack of suitable empirical theory or model to guide design strategies. Relationships between creat...

Climate change exposes vegetation to unusual drought, causing declines in productivity and increased mortality. Drought responses are hard to anticipate because canopy transpiration and diffusive conductance (G) respond to drying soil and vapor pressure deficit (D) in complex ways. A growing database of hydraulic traits, combined with a parsimonious theory of tree water transport and its regula...

Command-control and other distributed, collaborative systems should achieve the best possible results with resources available. We should measure these systems in terms of the quality of decisions made. Better decisions lead to better outcomes, because superior choices are made about what to do, with what assets, where and when. Just as we measure manufacturing processes in terms of value added...

Command-control and other distributed, collaborative systems should achieve the best possible results with resources available. We should measure these systems in terms of the quality of decisions made. Better decisions lead to better outcomes, because superior choices are made about what to do, with what assets, where and when. Just as we measure manufacturing processes in terms of value added...

Infant industry protection has been the cornerstone of a debate on tariff policy that extends at least from the eighteenth century to the current day. In contrast to traditional neo-classical models of international trade that imply net negative effects, industrial organization and learning-by-doing trade models describe how protective tariffs can encourage output expansion, productivity improv...

[1] The GeoengineeringModel Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) was designed to determine robust climate system model responses to solar geoengineering. GeoMIP currently consists of four standardized simulations involving reduction of insolation or increased amounts of stratospheric sulfate aerosols. Three more experiments involving marine cloud brightening are planned. This project has improved c...

It is widely accepted that modeling in software engineering increases productivity and results in better code quality. Yet, modeling adoption remains low. The open source community, in particular, remains almost entirely code centric. In this paper, we explore the reasons behind such limited adoption of modeling practices among open source developers. We highlight characteristics of modeling to...

"Creative" is a word with many uses. Sometimes it is used to describe the potential of a person to produce creative works whether they have produced any work as yet or not. Sometimes it is used to describe every-day behaviors as, for example, when a nursery school curriculum is said to encourage creative activities such as drawing or story telling. In this essay, I will restrict the meaning of ...

Current research in organizational behavior suggests that organizations should adopt collectivistic values because they promote cooperation and productivity, while individualistic values should be avoided because they incite destructive conXict and opportunism. In this paper, we highlight one possible beneWt of individualistic values that has not previously been considered. Because individualis...