Suboptimal resource allocation in changing environments constrains response and growth in bacteria

The authors present a case for integrating technology and marketing strategy as key elements that affect corporate success in rapidly changing environments. After describing the implications of technological change for firm behavior, the authors propose a framework for developing a technology strategy and introduce the technology portfolio. The technology portfolio serves both as a model for technological resource allocation and as an aid in choosing an optimal set of technologies from a set of feasible alternatives.

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Metabolic acclimation—a key to enhancing photosynthesis in changing environments?

Journal of Experimental Botany ◽

10.1093/jxb/erz157 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 70 (12) ◽

pp. 3043-3056 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Helena A Herrmann ◽

Jean-Marc Schwartz ◽

Giles N Johnson

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Temperature Sensor ◽

In Silico ◽

Photosynthetic Capacity ◽

Carbon Partitioning ◽

Photosynthetic Acclimation ◽

Metabolic Modelling ◽

Changing Environments ◽

In Silico Studies

Abstract Plants adjust their photosynthetic capacity in response to their environment in a way that optimizes their yield and fitness. There is growing evidence that this acclimation is a response to changes in the leaf metabolome, but the extent to which these are linked and how this is optimized remain poorly understood. Using as an example the metabolic perturbations occurring in response to cold, we define the different stages required for acclimation, discuss the evidence for a metabolic temperature sensor, and suggest further work towards designing climate-smart crops. In particular, we discuss how constraint-based and kinetic metabolic modelling approaches can be used to generate targeted hypotheses about relevant pathways, and argue that a stronger integration of experimental and in silico studies will help us to understand the tightly regulated interplay of carbon partitioning and resource allocation required for photosynthetic acclimation to different environmental conditions.

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Budgeting for Agile Product Development

Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design ◽

10.1017/dsi.2019.223 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 2169-2178 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maximilian Vierlboeck ◽

Kristin Gövert ◽

Jakob Trauer ◽

Udo Lindemann

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Product Development ◽

Research And Development ◽

Comprehensive Approach ◽

Agile Development ◽

Continuous Growth ◽

Value Maximization ◽

Changing Environments ◽

Budgeting Process

AbstractRecent reports and predictions indicate a consistent and continuous growth in the field of Research and Development. Such growth leads to increased resource investments, which have to be managed effectively to eventually achieve value maximization. This management is cohesive with budgeting. In changing environments, said effectiveness can be difficult to attain.Agile development is supposed to provide the necessary flexibility for uncertain situations and has recently seen a stark adoption incline. Unfortunately, budgeting and resource allocation have not yet been resolved for agile approaches: a comprehensive research including recent publications showed a lack of models and frameworks for the adoption and application of budgeting with agile development. Due to this lack of a comprehensive approach, as well as limitations and restrictions of existing research, this paper describes the design of a budgeting approach suitable for and compatible with agile product development. The developed solution, the Structured Agile Budgeting Process, provides a holistic and interdisciplinary way to allocate resources while still allowing the flexibility and benefits of agile development.

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Folk-economic beliefs as moral intuitions

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18000456 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Author(s):

Neil Malhotra

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Moral Intuitions ◽

Economic Beliefs ◽

Evolutionary Explanations

AbstractAlthough Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) cataloguing of and evolutionary explanations for folk-economic beliefs is important and valuable, the authors fail to connect their theories to existing explanations for why people do not think like economists. For instance, people often have moral intuitions akin to principles of fairness and justice that conflict with utilitarian approaches to resource allocation.

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Mother or Wife?

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000124 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 232-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Phia S. Salter ◽

Glenn Adams

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Resource Allocation ◽

Cultural Psychology ◽

The United States ◽

Personal Relationship ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Church Membership ◽

Cultural Dynamics ◽

Psychology Perspective ◽

Cultural Ecological

Inspired by “Mother or Wife” African dilemma tales, the present research utilizes a cultural psychology perspective to explore the dynamic, mutual constitution of personal relationship tendencies and cultural-ecological affordances for neoliberal subjectivity and abstracted independence. We administered a resource allocation task in Ghana and the United States to assess the prioritization of conjugal/nuclear relationships over consanguine/kin relationships along three dimensions of sociocultural variation: nation (American and Ghanaian), residence (urban and rural), and church membership (Pentecostal Charismatic and Traditional Western Mission). Results show that tendencies to prioritize nuclear over kin relationships – especially spouses over parents – were greater among participants in the first compared to the second of each pair. Discussion considers issues for a cultural psychology of cultural dynamics.

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Application of Information Introduced to Dynamic Message Processing and Enjoyment

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000195 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 196-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Byungho Park ◽

Rachel L. Bailey

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Recognition Memory ◽

Emotional Processing ◽

Orienting Response ◽

Structural Features ◽

Cognitive Resources ◽

Coding System ◽

Message Complexity ◽

Cognitive Resource ◽

Cognitive Overload

Abstract. In an effort to quantify message complexity in such a way that predictions regarding the moment-to-moment cognitive and emotional processing of viewers would be made, Lang and her colleagues devised the coding system information introduced (or ii). This coding system quantifies the number of structural features that are known to consume cognitive resources and considers it in combination with the number of camera changes (cc) in the video, which supply additional cognitive resources owing to their elicitation of an orienting response. This study further validates ii using psychophysiological responses that index cognitive resource allocation and recognition memory. We also pose two novel hypotheses regarding the confluence of controlled and automatic processing and the effect of cognitive overload on enjoyment of messages. Thirty television advertisements were selected from a pool of 172 (all 20 s in length) based on their ii/cc ratio and ratings for their arousing content. Heart rate change over time showed significant deceleration (indicative of increased cognitive resource allocation) for messages with greater ii/cc ratios. Further, recognition memory worsened as ii/cc increased. It was also found that message complexity increases both automatic and controlled allocations to processing, and that the most complex messages may have created a state of cognitive overload, which was received as enjoyable by the participants in this television context.

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