This paper reviews all Game Theory (GT) articles published in the three leading, US-based, OR/MS journals: Operations Research, Management Science, and Interfaces starting with Vol. 1, No. 1 of each. The articles were first subdivided into Theory or Applications categories. The Applications...

The Web allows for a direct relationship between a book's author, its purchaser and or reader, as well as the entire milieu of intermediaries. This medium for marketing one's book is relatively new and many people are not as yet convinced of its importance. Misconceptions abound, and the entire...

This paper reviews Turkey's policies and the practices of economic and social development starting with the end of its War of Independence in 1923 to date. It also analyzes the policies which have inhibited its development potential

Illegal transfer of technology (ITT) is one of the major policy formulation, industrial management, and law enforcement issues of this decade. It includes industrial espionage, the piracy of; software, logos, and hardware designs and it overlaps with issues of terrorism and those involving...

Content analysis was performed on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature appearing in refereed journals. The extant DEA literature, reported in Gattoufi et al.1 was subdivided in two ways. The first considers all articles appearing during the life-cycle of 22 selected major DEA...

This paper provides a historical perspective on Ordinarius Professor Joseph Igersheimer. While in forced exile from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939, he was the architect of modern ophthalmology in Turkey. Earlier he was a pioneer in addressing the impact of syphilis on eyesight. He was first...

This paper is about 40 sovereign nations, spread across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. All are at the lower or lowest ranks of social and economic development. All need infusions of technologic and other know-how. A major subset of all poor or emerging countries their commonality with all its...