We present an organizational model that develops organizational expertise and socialization with a hiring process informed by the inherent biases of individuals. We present factors that we believe critically impact candidate selection, literature related to these factors, and our resulting equations. We discuss the model, and present two virtual experiments. The first virtual experiment was use...

The aims of this study were to determine (1) the degree to which an evidence-based intervention (EBI) delivered outside the context of a research trial remained faithful to the content and design of the programme as intended and as reported in experimental trials of the same programme, and (2) whether implementation quality affected programme outcomes. We report results of an observational stud...

Non-stationary stochastic lot sizing problem appears in many industrial environments where demand is nonstationary and stochastic, and replenishments require fixed freight fees. This paper presents the cost performance assessment of three inventory control strategies proposed for the stochastic lot sizing problem, namely Hua et al. (2008)’s strategy (HYHX), Tarim and Kingsman (2006)’s model (TK...

CEO: Good morning, folks. The ® rst issue on our agenda today is the implementation of SAP at Metalica. (Sips his coffee.) As you probably remember, 2 months ago the board of directors accepted the recommendations of the breakthrough team and approved the budget for the SAP project. Two leading members of that team (smiling at head of systems development and chief trainer) have joined us today ...

Information is the most valuable resource for coping and recovery work in crisis management. It is the foundation for coordination, collaboration and decision-making. However, several challenges face information retrieval, evaluation and exchange processes in inter-organizational crisis management. On the one hand, due to the dynamic nature of crisis situations, information demands are hardly p...

Software process improvement in small organizations in alignment with reference models or standards remains complicated. In this paper, we enhance an approach for software process improvement and introduce the concept of process reference guides as a way to explicitly map reference models/standards and potential solutions in order to systematize and facilitate the process definition in improvem...

INTRODUCTION HIV epidemics in the Asia-Pacific region are concentrated among men who have sex with men (MSM) and other key populations. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective HIV prevention intervention and could be a potential game changer in the region. We discuss the progress towards PrEP implementation in the Asia-Pacific region, including opportunities and barriers. DISCUSSION A...

With increasing product portfolios of eCommerce companies it is getting harder for their customers to find the products they like best. A solution to this problem is to analyze the customer's behavior, and recommend products based on ratings. By considering click-stream data, the customer is unburdened with explicitly rating his favored. In this paper, we introduce a system for segmenting visit...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This RFC describes a PICS Proforma translated into an Internet acceptable form. The Original document was developed according to ISO 9646 for conformance test purposes. This document is intended for both deve...