Increasing diversification, urbanization, economic restructuring, and distances, as well declining dependence on forestry, are changing the characteristics of forest ownership c...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to observe whether environmental factors and phenotypic traits are associated with owner-reported skin problems and with veterinary diagnosed canine atopic dermatitis (CAD). Data were collected using the validated online DOGRISK questionnaire. Out of the data that the questionnaire provides for analysis, focus was first turned towards addressing questio...

I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher’s valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner’s investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the control of the asset after investment has taken place. A standard result is that the asset owner will un...

We use slave voyage data from 18th century Great Britain and France to answer two questions: 1) How important was the managerial quality of owners and captains in slave trading? and 2) What explains the substantial variation in managerial quality? Utilizing the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, in which we observe the performance of owners and captains in each of their voyages, we follow the...

Scrum ist zunächst definiert für einzelne Teams und ist auf dieser Ebene gut erprobt und weit verbreitet. Die Realität zeigt jedoch den Bedarf, das agile Framework auch im Konzern-Kontext zur Anwendung zu bringen. Und große Organisationen erhoffen sich die Agilität einer Kleinen. Die Anwendung von Scrum in großen Organisationen mit einer Vielzahl von Teams ist jedoch weit weniger gut beschriebe...

The growing importance of networked workstations as a computing milieu has created a new modality of parallel computing, namely, the possibility of having one workstation \steal cycles" from another. In a typical episode of cycle-stealing, the owner of workstation B allows the owner of workstation A to take control of B's processor whenever it is idle, with the promise of relinquishing control ...

In this paper, a novel methodology is proposed to solve a cooperative multi-depot vehicle routing problem. We establish a mathematical model for multi-owner VRP in which each owner (i.e. player) manages single or multiple depots. The basic idea consists of offering an option that owners cooperatively manage the VRP to save their costs. We present cooperative game theory techniques for cost savi...

Excessive aggression is a common behaviour problem in dogs that can have various destructive effects on the affected people and the implicated dog. Aggressive behaviour directed towards the owner or other family members is one of the most frequently occurring aggressive phenotypes. Here, we examine the reliability of a short questionnaire assessing aggressive behaviours by two, contextually dif...