There is a wealth of literature documenting the biases and errors associated with judgmentbased forecasting—c.f. (McGlothlin 1956, Tversky and Kahneman 1974, Wright and Ayton 1986, Bolger and Harvey 1998), for example. Mentzer and Bienstock (1998) and Tyebjee (1987) point out that in addition to these problems, judgmental sales forecasts could be distorted by other factors, such as organization...

Broadly speaking, pathology is categorized as being primarily related to valvular stenosis (AS) or regurgitation (AR), but a diseased valve may often exhibit both. The predilection of degenerative disease of the aortic valve, particularly stenosis, for the elderly has resulted in a steadily increasing prevalence as the population ages. As general life expectancy increases in the United States a...

Hydroxycinnamic acids are the most widely distributed phenolic acids in plants. Broadly speaking, they can be defined as compounds derived from cinnamic acid. They are present at high concentrations in many food products, including fruits, vegetables, tea, cocoa, and wine. A diet rich in hydroxycinnamic acids is thought to be associated with beneficial health effects such as a reduced risk of c...

I he issue about whethei Philosophy has become redundant in our time constitutes one o f the initial or beginning issues in Philosophy. Philosophy, which is, broadly speaking, one oj the humanities, is not anil may not be a product oj socio-economic relations. When these disciplines concede that they have become encapsulated in the existing order and that therefore they wish to continue the sta...

0 whenever ai = 0 for all i ∈ Z, k whenever an 6= 0 and ai = 0 for i < n. We can interpret F(X) as the completion of F(X) in this absolute value. Diophantine approximation in F(X), where a generic element is approximated by elements from the field of fractions F(X), has been studied by numerous authors (the survey papers [9, 11] contain some of the known results). Broadly speaking, the object o...

Theories of the chemical bond aim to explain the structures and stabilities of molecules, and different theories aim for different levels of explanation. The most important theories are those that give simple explanations for the structures and stabilities of the most stable molecules ; broadly speaking, those that we find in bottles on the shelf of a laboratory. However, as experimental chemis...

Computer Vision based autonomous robot navigation has caught the attention of many researchers because of its huge potential in various industrial and social applications. This paper focuses on various approaches used to detect road region which is fundamental requirement in applications like intelligent vehicles, lane detection and tracking and driver assistance systems. Broadly speaking techn...

This paper describes how wealth inequality may distort public resource allocation. A government seeks to allocate limited resources to productive sectors, but sectoral productivity is privately known by agents with vested interests in those sectors. They lobby the government for preferential treatment. The government—even if it honestly seeks to maximize economic efficiency—may be confounded by...

Over the past two centuries biomedical science has, at times, provided justification for white privilege. Science has been used to support the proposition that differences in achievement reflect innate differences in ability among racial groups. Broadly speaking, the view that differences in academic achievement, IQ scores, employment status or wealth primarily reflect innate differences is cal...

Extremal graph theory is, broadly speaking, the study of relations between various graph invariants, such as order, size, connectivity, minimum/maximum degree, chromatic number, etc., and the values of these invariants that ensure that the graph has certain properties. Since the first major result by Turan in 1941, numerous mathematicians have contributed to make this a vibrant and deep subject...