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Discrete distribution function --- Granular materials --- Grain structure --- Morphology

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Book history --- distribution [function] --- bookselling --- booksellers [people] --- anno 1600-1699 --- Antwerp

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Service Design and Delivery provides a comprehensive overview of the increasingly important role played by the service industry. Focusing on the development of different processes employed by service organizations, the book emphasizes management of service in relation to products. It not only explores the complexity of this relationship, but also introduces strategies used in the design and management of service across various sectors, highlighting where tools, techniques and processes applicable to one sector may prove useful in another. The implementation methods introduced in the book also illustrate how and why companies can transform themselves into service organizations. While the book is primarily intended as a text for advanced-level courses in service design and delivery, it also contains theoretical and practical knowledge beneficial to both practitioners in the service sector and those in manufacturing contemplating moving towards service delivery.

Operational research. Game theory --- Distribution strategy --- Information systems --- management --- distribution [function] --- bedrijfseconomie --- management --- speltheorie --- operationeel onderzoek --- informatica management

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This paper presents counterfactual decompositions based on both the Shapley method and a generalization of the Oaxaca-Blinder approach to identify proximate factors that might explain differences in the distribution of economic welfare in Cameroon in 1996-2007. In particular, the analysis uses re-centered influence function regressions to link the growth incidence curve for 2001-2007 to household characteristics and account for heterogeneity of impact across quantiles in terms of the composition (or endowment) effect and structural (or price) effect. The analysis finds that the level of the growth incidence curve is explained by the endowment effect while its shape is driven by the price effect. Observed gains at the bottom of the distribution are due to returns to endowments. The rest of the gains are accounted for by the composition effect. Further decomposition of these effects shows that the composition effect is determined mainly by household demographics while the structural effect is shaped by the sector of employment and geography. Finally, analysis of the rural-urban gap in living standards shows that, for the poorest households in both sectors, differences in household characteristics matter more than the returns to those characteristics. The opposite is true for better-off households.

Achieving Shared Growth --- Counterfactual --- Decomposition techniques --- Distribution function --- Economic activity --- Economic Theory & Research --- Employment opportunities --- Growth episode --- Growth process --- Household demographics --- Household survey --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Poverty Reduction --- Regional Economic Development --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Structural adjustment

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In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor.Recognizing that the efficiency of the insect colony is based on a complex fitting of the division of labor to many simultaneous needs, including those imposed by the distribution of resources and enemies around the nest, Professors Oster and Wilson are able to construct a series of mathematical models to characterize the agents of natural selection that promote particular caste systems.The social insects play a key role in the subject of sociobiology because their social organization is so rigid and can be related to genetic evolution. Because of this important consideration, the authors' work has consequences not only for entomology but also for general evolutionary theory.

Allometric space;Allometry. --- Auslander, D. --- Brian. --- Brown. --- Camponotus (carpenter ants). --- Caste distribution function (CDF). --- Demography. --- Eaton (army ants). --- Energy as utility. --- Formica (ants). --- Guckenheimer, J. --- Hare, Hope. --- Individual-level selection. --- Janzen, D. H. --- Michener, C. D. --- Mirmirani, M. --- Monomorium (ants). --- Myrmica (ants). --- Nash equilibrium. --- Oecophylla (weaver ants), frontispiece. --- Oster, G. F. --- Pheidole (ants). --- Pogonomyrmex (harvesting ants). --- Polistes (paper wasps). --- Resource distribution function (RDF). --- Schmidt, G. H. --- Soldier caste. --- Temporal castes. --- Trivers, R. L. --- Wilson, E. O. --- Allometric space. --- Allometry.