A principal often needs to match agents perform coordinated tasks, but can quit or slack off if they dislike their match. We study two prevalent approaches for matching within organizations: centralized assignment by firm leaders and self-organization through market-like mechanisms. provide a formal model of the strengths weaknesses both methods under different settings, incentives, production technologies. The highlights trade-offs between match-specific productivity job satisfaction. then...

Abstract Objectives A growing body of evidence suggests focused deterrence strategies successfully reduce criminal behavior. Very little this comes from randomized experiments. This paper takes a step toward filling gap in the literature. We present results experiment evaluating series youth outreach forums that leverage several strategies. Methods presents controlled trial program run Cook County Juvenile Detention Center (JTDC) by Northern Illinois Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force....

The First World War wreaked havoc across Europe. It led to the fall of long-established empires, socio-political upheaval and accelerated coming power socialist parties. Arguably most...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) primary mirror consists of seven 8.4 m light-weight honeycomb mirrors that are being manufactured at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab (RFCML), University Arizona. In order to manufacture largest and most aspheric astronomical various high precision fabrication technologies have been developed, researched implemented RFCML. unique (in diameter) capacity facilities fully equipped with large optical generator (LOG), polishing machine (LPM), stressed lap, rigid...

(Abstracted from Obstet Gynecol 2017;130(1):10–28) This article provides a summary of the “Opioid Use in Pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and Childhood Outcomes” workshop convened by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Child Health Human Development on April 4 5, 2016, cosponsored American College Obstetricians Gynecologists (ACOG), Academy Pediatrics, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Centers Disease Control Prevention, March Dimes. Expert speakers diverse fields...

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of prekindergarten grade 12 schools and an inequitable return full-time in-person learning. Objective: To explore how ethnic racial differences across school districts in Massachusetts correlate with parents’ attitudes, beliefs, trusted sources information about mitigation strategies. Design: An electronic survey was distributed by administrators parents guardians November December 2021 using existing district contact lists established...

Jackson, Shawn S. MD, PhD; Cravero, Joseph P. MD; Sun, Lena Davis, Jonathan M. MD Author Information

This article follows the journeys to Soviet Russia and Menshevik Georgia that were made by members of British Labour Party in 1920. It examines what George Lansbury official Party–TUC delegation found during their trips Russia, also findings Ramsay MacDonald who travelled Georgia. These visits important socialists, as they crucial sources information about construction socialism. But, shows, no definitive viewpoint system emerged visitors' reports, books articles. allowed travellers use...

16 WLT JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2016 photo : stephen murphy N ew Zealand is, relatively speaking, a tiny country with population half the size of New York City and in location so remote, commercial flight from Los Angeles takes over fifteen hours to get there. The closest big city, Sydney, is three across almost landless Tasman Sea. Legendary for beauty its landscape fierce Maori culture that has occupied islands since late thirteenth century, Aotearoa, as Maoris called north island, had first...

16 WLT JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2016 photo : stephen murphy N ew Zealand is, relatively speaking, a tiny country with population half the size of New York City and in location so remote, commercial flight from Los Angeles takes over fifteen hours to get there. The closest big city, Sydney, is three across almost landless Tasman Sea. Legendary for beauty its landscape fierce Maori culture that has occupied islands since late thirteenth century, Aotearoa, as Maoris called north island, had first...

14 WLT JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2015 STORYTELLING GENRES satisfy a psychological need in those who consume them; otherwise, they could not be genres. The traditional romance novel tells us that love is ideal, unyielding, and sexy. stories provide an ideal its readers can aspire to, refuge from the belches forgotten anniversaries of real-life relationships. Golden Age mystery proposes another ideal: rational orderly world which murder will out justice served. It universe amoral hurly-burly, despite...

Journal Article The Merchant and the Jew: A Fourteenth-Century Analogue to of Venice Get access J. Madison Davis, Davis MADISON DAVIS, Associate Professor English at Pennsylvania State University, is a fiction writer who has published numerous short stories in Mississippi Review, Antietam other journals. He also author non-fiction articles on variety topics, including contemporary literature Renaissance drama. Search for works by this on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sylvie L. F. Richards...

This article examines Walter Citrine's first tour of the Soviet Union in 1925. Although Citrine visited USSR at a time great uncertainty, when outcomes revolution were still unclear and question who would succeed Lenin remained to be answered, his visit has not received attention that it deserves. Through analysis unpublished diaries, shows how British trade unionist was impressed with some aspects system, but troubled by others, such as closeness Russian unions Communist Party.

January–February 2012 | 9 F ilms, novels, and television episodes featuring realistic policemen women as main characters are so common today that it is odd to consider how relatively uncommon they were in the first century of modern crime writing. As usual with these “who’s on first” discussions, one can argue endlessly about who created police procedural propose various candidates, but 1948—107 years after publication Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders Rue Morgue”—is year which a definite tipping...