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Practical Aspects of Solving Hybrid Bayesian Networks Containing Deterministic Conditionals
(Wiley, 2015-03)In this paper we discuss some practical issues that arise in solv- ing hybrid Bayesian networks that include deterministic conditionals for continuous variables. We show how exact inference can become intractable even ... -
The Effect of Technical Default Cost on Discretionary Accounting Decisions
(Kaizen Publications, 2014-08-16)This study investigates whether the variation in the expected costs of technical default leads managers to manipulate earnings in periods prior to, as well as in, the year in which avoidance of technical default becomes ... -
A Test of an Efficiency Model of Grievance Activity
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991-10-01)The authors develop a model in which the extent of use of a grievance system is determined by wage premiums and alternative job opportunities. Specifically, they hypothesize that when workers enjoy comparatively high wages ... -
Examining Non-Linear Relationships between Human Resource Practices and Manufacturing Performance
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007-07-01)One little-explored question concerning innovative human resources practices is how the intensity of their implementation affects their impact on establishment performance: is the relationship linear, or more complex? This ... -
Unions and the Adoption of High Performance Work Systems: Does Employment Security Play a Role?
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009-10-01)Previous research on the association between unionization and the adoption of high performance work systems (HPWSs) has yielded inconsistent results. Using data from a 2004 multi-industry survey of firms operating in the ... -
Gender Earnings Differentials in Total Pay, Base Pay, and Contingent Pay
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1994-07-01)Using data from a 1988 survey of business school graduates, the authors analyze gender differentials in earnings by form of pay—total pay, base pay, and contingent pay—with controls for human capital, occupation, job level, ... -
The International Economic Relations of a Small Country: The Case of Paraguay
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Specifying the systematic risk of portfolios : a closed form solution
(1985)In this note, we examine a particular quadratic program which arises in a variety of financial allocation problems and derive a closed form solution for its first order Lograngian conditions. Our technique bypasses the ... -
Integrated water management with reuse: A programing approach
(American Geophysical Union, 1979)Interest has increased recently in water recycling and reuse. The possible economic feasibility of reuse and recycling dramatically increases the complexity of designing an optimal water delivery system. In this paper we ... -
Marketing and MIS During Times of Resource Scarcity
(Management Information Systems Research Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 1982)MIS managers generally have not stressed the marketing aspects of their operations. A more widespread concern is with the shortage of systems analyst and programmer resources. In an effort to learn how one group of MIS ... -
Effective Design And Use Of Computer Decision Models.
(American Marketing Association, 1984-03)Computer decision models often provide useful results as management planning tools. However, these tools are frequently limited to firms with staffs of specialists who can assimilate the technical nature of the models. For ... -
Recognition as a Measure of Learning from Television Commercials.
(American Marketing Association, 1983-08)Recognition has not received extensive acceptance by practitioners as a response variable for learning of television commercials. The authors review some of the distinctions between recoil and recognition, and some of the ... -
Using the Theory of Signal Detection to Improve Ad Recognition Testing.
(American Marketing Association, 1986)Recognition tests are a very popular means of assessing the memory effectiveness of advertisements. Unfortunately the recognition scores obtained by current methods reflect both the memory for an advertisement and the ... -
Recognition versus recall as measures of television commercial forgetting.
(American Marketing Association, 1988-02)Investigated the impact of time since exposure, commercial length, and commercial repetition on recognition and unaided recall scores, using 204 undergraduates. Ss were randomly assigned to 12 experimental cells and asked ... -
The effects of length, content, and repetition on television commercial effectiveness
(American Marketing Association, 1993-02)Many advertisers have argued that 15-second television commercials should be used only to reinforce effects created by longer commercials. However, this recommendation is based on studies that have several weaknesses, ... -
Antecedents of the attraction effect: An information-processing approach
(American Marketing Association, 1993-08)Many researchers have demonstrated the existence of an attraction effect that increases the choice probability of an existing target brand by the introduction of a relatively inferior decoy brand. A causal model that links ... -
Enhancing memory of television commercials through message spacing.
(American Marketing Association, 1994-08)Examined the effects of message repetition, message spacing lag time, and measurement delay on memory for TV commercials among 413 older and younger adults (aged 62–83 yrs vs 20–35 yrs). Results show that in the long ... -
Enhancing helping behavior: An integrative framework for promotion planning
(American Marketing Association, 1996-07)Charitable organizations play a vital role in society, as evidenced by their enormous economic and social impact. Yet, for many of them, soliciting adequate resources to carry out their mandates is a continuing struggle. ... -
Information Technology and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Resource-Based Analysis
(MIS Quarterly, 1995)The concept of IT as a powerful competitive weapon has been strongly emphasized in the literature, yet the sustainability of the competitive advantage provided by IT applications is not well-explained. This work discusses ... -
Assessing Value in Organizational Knowledge Creation: Considerations for Knowledge Workers
(MIS Quarterly, 2005)To maintain competitive advantage, a firm's investment decisions related to knowledge creation are likely to be strategic in nature. However, strategic investments usually have an element of risk linked to uncertain and ...
