The paper describes an experiment with the integration of geographic information systems (GIS) into farmland preservation techniques using the data and policies of Hunterdon County, NJ as a case study. The automation process incorporates a variety of factors as criteria for evaluating properties for a purchase of development rights. The spatially explicit criteria include evaluations of the soi...

Over 1,000 U.S. Army officers responded to two surveys over a two-year period. Results indicated that mentoring was positively related to affective commitment and continuance commitment and negatively related to “turnover behavior.” The relationship with affective commitment was moderated by the conditions of mentorship (supervisory versus nonsupervisory) but not by the type of mentoring suppor...

Real world players often increase their payo¤s by voluntarily committing to play a …xed strategy, prior to the start of a strategic game. In fact, the players may further bene…t from commitments that are conditional on the commitments of others. This paper proposes a model of conditional commitments that uni…es earlier models while avoiding circularities that often arise in such models. A commi...

A positive relationship between employee engagement and affective commitment is already documented in the literature. However, we do not adequately know how engagement is associated with continuance and normative commitment. Using survey methodology we find that while engagement has a non-significant positive association with continuance commitment; it has a positive association with normative ...

This paper attempt has been made to explain a fuzzy commitment scheme. In the conventional Commitment schemes, both committed string m and valid opening key are required to enable the sender to prove the commitment. However there could be many instances where the transmission involves noise or minor errors arising purely because of the factors over which neither the sender nor the receiver have...

Löıck Magnin, 2 Frédéric Magniez, Anthony Leverrier, and Nicolas J. Cerf 4 QuIC, École Polytechnique, CP 165, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium LRI, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS; F-91405 Orsay, France Institut Telecom / Telecom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, 46 rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mas...

The paper was retracted.