This research examines how youth in arts and leadership programs develop skills for organizing actions over time to achieve goals. Ethnically diverse youth (ages 13-21) in 11 high-quality urban and rural programs were interviewed as they carried out projects. Qualitative analyses of 712 interviews with 108 youth yielded preliminary grounded theory about youth's development of strategic thinking...

background : lifestyle is recognized as a key factor as the cause and management of the metabolic syndrome. the aim of this study was to identify individuals at increased cardiovascular diseases risk and determine main features of lifestyle of participants with metabolic syndrome via internet. methods : the study was conducted from jun 22 to august 22, 2012 in tehran, iran. recruitment was carr...

We develop an agent-based modeling and simulation approach to study the impact of product consumption strategies on the temporal dynamics of recommender systems’ performance. We model the product consumption strategy by decomposing it into two parts: recommender system’s item ranking strategy and consumers’ item selection strategy. Our simulation results show that consumers’ selection strategy ...

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In theories of strategic management, organizational flexibility is considered as a strategic asset in situations in which anticipation is impossible and strategic surprise likely. In these situations, the use of traditional planning strategies will be increasingly supplemented and sometimes replaced by flexible configuration strategies. This paper distinguishes four of these strategies to confi...

Renewable energy integration is accompanied by highly volatile energy generation, which urges energy suppliers to use costly countermeasures to prevent energy imbalances, grid instabilities and power outages. Therefore, using demand-side approaches to shift flexible demand over time is a promising opportunity. In the case of electric vehicles, research papers mostly discuss vehicle drivers’ ind...

In light of the growing interest in agent-based market models, we bring together several earlier works in which we considered the topic of selfconsistent market modelling. Building upon the binary game structure of Challet and Zhang, we discuss generalizations of the strategy reward scheme such that the agents seek to maximize their wealth in a more direct way. We then examine a disturbing feat...

Current theoretical arguments highlight a dilemma faced by actors who either adopt a weak or strong commitment strategy for managing their alliances and partnerships. Actors who pursue a weak commitment strategy—i.e. immediately abandon current partners when a more profitable alternative is presented—are more likely to identify the most rewarding alliances. On the other hand, actors who enact a...

The United States is a leading nation in the development of synthetic biology, an emerging engineering discipline to create, control and reprogram biological systems. With strategic investment from its government agencies, the U.S. has established numerous research centers and programs in synthetic biology, enabling significant advances in foundational tool development and practical application...