The authors propose an empirical procedure to investigate the pricing behavior of manufacturers and retailers in the presence of state dependent demand. Rather than assuming that firms are perfectly forward looking and accordingly solving for dynamic equilibria that would arise in the presence of state dependence, the authors systematically evaluate whether boundedly rational firms indeed look ...

PURPOSE To determine the probability of having prostate cancer (PCa) using the combination of serum level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and age. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 160 patients and 190 controls were enrolled in this hospital-based case-control study. Using a logistic regression model and the odds ratio of age and PSA level, the probability of PCa was estimated based on seru...

Three experiments explored the semantics of the mass-count distinction in young children and adults. In Experiments 1 and 2, the quantity judgments of participants provided evidence that some mass nouns refer to individuals, as such. Participants judged one large portion of stuff to be "more" than three tiny portions for substance-mass nouns (e.g. mustard, ketchup), but chose according to numbe...

stances they use in the kitchen and the bathroom are not simple liquids or solids. Everyone is familiar with three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. However, creams, shampoo, toothpaste, and ketchup all have properties of both liquids and solids. This paper describes demonstrations and laboratory exercises1 that show intriguing properties of squishy substances, defined as materials ...

Marsicano, G., Wotjak, C.T., Azad, S.C., Bisogno, T., Rammes, G., familiarity that the item is old without constructing a Cascio, M.G., Hermann, H., Tang, J., Hofmann, C., Zieglgansberger, vivid representation of the past episode. W., et al. (2002). Nature 418, 530–534. In source retrieval, the task directly requires the subMcGuire, S.E., Le, P.T., and Davis, R.L. (2001). Science 293, 1330– jec...

The nature of nutrition is the most important factor determining human health. Proper healthy maintains health, plays an role in preventing chronic diseases modern humans. level food product quality must meet physiological needs for nutrients and energy, also includes concept preventive effect food, or as a risk non-communicable diseases. When are improper proportions, considered incorrect, unh...

A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid whose flow properties differ in many ways from those of Newtonian fluids. Most commonly the viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids is not independent of shear rate or shear rate history. In practice, many fluid materials exhibits non-Newtonian fluid behavior such as: salt solutions, molten, ketchup, custard, toothpaste, starch suspensions, paint, blood, and shampoo e...

Tomato is a globally famous food and contains several phytonutrients including lycopene, β-carotene, anthocyanin, and flavonoids. The increased temperature used to produce tomato juice, ketchup, tomato paste and canned tomato enhances the bioactive composition. We aimed to verify the beneficial effects of processed tomato juice from Kagome Ltd. (KOT) on hypolipidemic action in hamsters with hyp...

Postpurchase out-of-stock (PP-OOS) often happens in an online grocery context, where products appear to be available at the time a consumer places order, but become OOS when order is dispatched. This paper investigates two substitution policies that can mitigate negative responses: substitutions match (i) on dominant attribute and (ii) with product from consumers’ past purchase portfolio. Accor...

We analyse through numerical simulations, experiments, and scaling laws the dam-break problem for viscoplastic materials. Numerically, both two three-dimensional (2D 3D) scenarios are considered thanks to a proposed adaptive stabilized finite element framework able compute efficiently free surface flows of highly choose focus on Bingham model. Momentum mass equations solved by using Variational...