Bundling, which is the practice of selling two or more products or services in a package, is a pervasive marketing practice and is often used as a strategic competitive tool. However, there has not been enough consideration of competitive bundling situations where exit of a competitor is not a concern. In this paper, we address this issue by identifying conditions under which strategic competit...

design IRT embodies a view of induction as a four-phase process (shown in Figure 1). The process alters a current model by generating a group of new competitor models, fitting those competitor models to data, comparing the competitors to each other, and then testing the statistical significance of the competitors. The process is iterative — it can be repeated until no competitor can be found th...

Female and male rats are often described as having a promiscuous mating strategy, yet simple Pavlovian conditioning paradigms, in which a neutral odor or strain-related cues are paired with preferred sexual reward states during an animal's first sexual experiences, shift this strategy toward copulatory and mate preferences for partners bearing the familiar odor or strain cue. We examined whethe...

In interocular suppression, a suprathreshold monocular target can be rendered invisible by a salient competitor stimulus presented in the other eye. Despite decades of research on interocular suppression and related phenomena (e.g., binocular rivalry, flash suppression, continuous flash suppression), the neural processing underlying interocular suppression is still unknown. We developed and tes...

INTRODUCTION Competitive intelligence (CI) has become a very important source of information for business planning and other activities. CI is generally considered to be the set of legal and ethical methods used to gather information about competitor activities from public and private sources. CI provides information about the present and future behavior of competitors, suppliers, customers, te...

Participants' eye movements to four objects displayed on a computer screen were monitored as the participants clicked on the object named in a spoken instruction. The display contained pictures of the referent (e.g., a snake), a competitor that shared features with the visual representation associated with the referent's concept (e.g., a rope), and two distractor objects (e.g., a couch and an u...

Using dissociation and enhancement time-resolved lanthanide fluorometry, we have developed a quantitative competitive (QC)-PCR for measuring parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) mRNA after reverse transcription. A cloned PTHrP cDNA target was also modified by deletion of 10 bp and insertion of 21 bp in the midregion of the fragment and cloned for use as a competitor (i.e., internal stand...