North Korean Dominance in Diplomatic Game over Nukes, and Brinkmanship
Links to the article : New York Times – Progress Is Cited on New Reactor in North Korea New York Times – North Korea Perfects Its Diplomatic Game: Brinkmanship Recent news article release in New York Times revealed new progress on North Korean nuclear reactor. North Korea, while having promised in February that it […]
The Growing Importance of Social Media for Hospitality Industries
The Growing Importance of Social Media for Hospitality Industries
Stubborn Effectiveness
In lecture we discussed the important relationship between a node’s location in a network and how much power the node can wield. In the most basic examples reviewed in class, all nodes were offering each other very basic, mutually beneficial deals, and were only differentiated by their positions relative to each other. However, the principal […]
iPhone 5’s Matching Markets Dilemma
Last Friday, Apple released the iPhone 5 and sold over 2 million phones within the first 24 hours. Assuming there is nothing wrong with Apple’s supply chain and it is able to meet the demands of consumers, analysts expected Apple to sell 8 million iPhones (including pre-orders) over the weekend. When Apple announced its sales […]
Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Environment
The general public’s concern and awareness for environmental issues have been issues of concern in recent years; the issues of climate change and sustainability are often on the forefront of current news. For the most part, people are increasingly acknowledging the importance of protecting the environment, and that society would be better off as a […]
Being Fashionably Late to a Party
One of the most awkward parts of nights in college can be the began stages of parties. There are many kinds of websites devoted to discussing the best time to arrive at a party, like this forum on eHow (http://www.ehow.com/how_2097455_arrive-fashionably-late.html). Often, the social norm for these kind of events involves showing up “fashionably late” to […]
Ambulance Redeployment
Emergency medical service providers are responsible to meet their contractual requirements for response time performance at peak hours. They need to allocate their Advanced Life Support ambulances around the service area to minimize the response time for calls during this time window. One approach that assists the service providers to reduce response times is ambulance […]
EBay Bidding Strategies
The rise of online auctioning sites such as EBay has led to new strategies when dealing with auctions. Normal English auctions go on until no other buyers are willing to bid. EBay, however, adds a timing component to this. Auctions only run for a specified amount of time, and the highest bidder once time runs […]
On The NFL
Those following the National Football League (NFL) this year know that the hot topic of conversation is the current referee lockout. The NFL Referee’s Association is the official union of the referees who have traditionally called the games for the NFL. This season, however, marked the end of the existing contract between the NFL Referee’s […]
How ‘Gangnam Style’ stormed the music world
A Korean rapper Psy’s music video is very phenomenal all over the world. His music video is gaining huge popularity on youtube and its youtube hits are over 250,000,000. His song even placed first on the US iTunes music video chart. Music lovers all over the world fell in love with Psy’s Gangnam Style. They […]
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