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- Managing Nutrients With Property Rights
- Nutrient use in agriculture has increased land productivity. It has also been blamed for environmental degradation. Nutrient management strives to maximize agricultural output, with minimal environmental externalities. The Nutrient Management Act NMA is a central planning solution implemented to prevent water contamination by restricting nutrient use and imposing requirements for...
- White papers 2006-10-06
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- Benchmarking And Comparing Entrepreneurs With Hidden Information
- This paper studies how the creation of benchmarks and rankings can be used to provide information in financial markets in the presence of the hidden characteristics problem. Although an investor cannot precisely estimate the future returns of an entrepreneur's projects, the investor can mitigate the asymmetric information problem by comparing...
- White papers 2006-07-20
- An Information-Based Trade Off Between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment
- The paper develops a model of Foreign Direct Investments FDI and Foreign Portfolio Investments FPI.The model describes an information-based trade off between direct investments and portfolio investments. Direct investors are more informed about the fundamentals of their projects. This information enables them to manage their projects more efficiently. However, it...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Taking Different Approaches to a Problem
- We are under such time pressures at work that we tend to solve problems based on what has worked in the past. This approach precludes us from finding new and effective solutions. Instead, we look for "quick fixes." Considering a problem from different perspectives helps us solve...
- Articles 2007-12-03
- Coping with Information Overload
- You know it all too well: The amount of information available to us wherever we go is increasing rapidly and perpetually. As a result, we're all expected to absorb and respond to more information than ever before. The reasons are very familiar:New technology making information available at all times everywhere;Expectations...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Chief information security officers answer 4 burning questions
- CYBERSECURITY 6 chief information security officers share how they plan to keep government data and computers safe in the face of constantly changing risks, red tape and tight budgets CISOs assess the assessors When the CISO title first started appearing on agency organization charts about seven years ago, the job...
- News items 2009-11-15
- Multidisciplinary Information Management in Construction Industry, Example of Facilities Management
- Information management is mainly dealt as a research problem of information services or as a database management problem of CAD systems. In this paper several approaches to the construction information handling are discussed; information creation, transfer and retrieval. Actually, construction information management is a multidisciplinary task; a mixture of parameters...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Getting to the Root of a Problem
- Organizations often respond to financial and market imperatives by resolving problems with short-term solutions. Often, there are procedures in place to guide people's actions so that they spend minimal time on original thinking and then focus on the immediate requirements of the job. However, constantly relying on quick fixes requires...
- Articles 2007-10-11
- Trust-Based Secure Information Sharing Between Federal Government Agencies
- The September 11 attack and the following investigations show that there is a serious information sharing problem among the relevant federal government agencies, and the problem can cause substantial deficiencies in terrorism attack detection. In this paper we provide a systematic analysis of the causes of this problem; and conclude...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Simultaneous Mapping and Localization With Sparse Extended Information Filters: Theory and Initial Results
- This paper describes a scalable algorithm for the simultaneous mapping and localization SLAM problem. SLAM is the problem of determining the location of environmental features with a roving robot. This paper develops the notion of sparse extended information filters SEIFs, as a new method for solving the SLAM problem. SEIFs...
- White papers 2002-10-20
- How Efficient Information Diffusion Drives Out Diversity And Lowers Collective Problem Solving Ability
- Whether as team members brainstorming, or cultures experimenting with new technologies, problem solvers communicate and share ideas. This paper examines how the structure of communication networks among actors can affect system-level performance. We present an agent-based model of information sharing, where the less successful emulate the more successful. Results suggest...
- White papers 2006-11-25
- Information security remains a serious problem for most federal agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office.(Washington Insider)
- Information security remains a serious problem for most federal agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office. Information security remains a serious problem for most federal agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office.
- Research articles 2008-02-22
- Why We Need Smart Financial-System Regulation Now
- Houman makes a case against extending regulation to hedge funds by looking at what happened under the existing regulatory structure. But as we all know, past performance does not necessarily predict future behavior, particularly when the underlying regulatory structure changes and we can certainly expect chagnes in the future. So...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- 6 Steps to Cre8ive Problem Solving
- Creativity really is simple as 1, 2, 3 (and 4, 5, 6). It is a common misperception that you have to be born creative or a real maverick in order to think creatively. Creativity is a process and rule followers are generally more successful in creativity sessions. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Toyota Acceleration Problem Is Still Unresolved
- Toyota said on Tuesday that a press release it issued on Monday was not intended to give the impression that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had cleared 3.8 million of its vehicles of having an unintended acceleration defect. Indeed, the federal agency said it was still investigating the exact...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Insurer sends wrong benefit information to long-term care enrollees
- A long-term care insurance provider sent letters with incorrect information about benefits and premiums to tens of thousands of federal enrollees."Getting accurate, easy to understand information to our enrollees in a timely manner is my top priority," Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry said in a statement. "All companies...
- News items 2009-11-13
- Managing the wired enterprise. (Computer Associates International creates a program that depicts information technology systems to aid business owners in their management of such systems)(Brief Articl
- 00-00-0000 AS INFORMATION technology grows to larger, more complex systems, maintaining control becomes the problem--too much data and not enough information. Even visualization of a company's global IT resources becomes a challenge. As a solution, 00-00-0000 AS INFORMATION technology grows to larger,...
- Research articles 1996-07-15
- TAYLOR NELSON SOFRES: Revolutionary new research tool solves the problem of information overload.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 July 1999-TAYLOR NELSON SOFRES: Revolutionary new research tool solves the problem of information overload C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:070799 Does your company suffer from information overload? If it does, Taylor Nelson Sofres, one of the world's leading marketing ...
- Research articles 1999-07-08
- The Value Of Openness In Scientific Problem Solving
- Openness and free information sharing amongst scientists are supposed to be core norms of the scientific community. However, many studies have shown that these norms are not universally followed. Lack of openness and transparency means that scientific problem solving is constrained to a few scientists who work in secret and...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- The Design Of IPO Lockups
- A model explaining the length of IPO Initial Public Offering lockups is developed and tested. The model demonstrates that, depending upon a firm's characteristics, the length of the lockup period may be chosen to address either a moral hazard or an asymmetric information problem. The major empirical implication of the...
- White papers 2006-09-12
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