The aim of this research study is to explore how brands promote their products on special occasions and find out the different effects purchasing behavior consumers towards sale offers. Brands use promotional tools e.g., Independence Day, Mother’s New year’s resolution day, Blessed Friday, Eid, etc. sell for purpose increasing sales in market as compared competitors' brands. They make attractiv...

In this paper we describe computer-supported structured cooperative learning, applied to the laboratories of an introductory CS1 course. We extended IMINDS, a multiagent system that supports student-teacher and student-student realtime interactions, to support a cooperative learning paradigm called Jigsaw. Jigsaw considers of several phases of activities, including dividing students into differ...

This study shows that mortality dips before a symbolically meaningful occasion and peaks just afterward. Mortality among Chinese (n = 1288) dips by 35.1% in the week before the Harvest Moon Festival and peaks by the same amount (34.6%) in the week after. We chose to study mortality among Chinese and a Chinese holiday for two reasons. First, the holiday moves around the calendar, thus allowing s...

We consider two–sided many–to–many matching markets in which each worker may work for multiple firms and each firm may hire multiple workers. We study individual and group manipulations in centralized markets that employ (pairwise) stable mechanisms and that require participants to submit rank order lists of agents on the other side of the market. We are interested in simple preference manipula...

a large number of medical men and by some medical ladies, and on many occasions at the monthly meetings of the Nagpur Clinical Society the subject of enteric fever has been discussed, and the lesions found post-mortem in the intestines have, on several occasions, been shown at the Society. During the past ten years I have made enquiries from a large number of men in the Indian Medical Service a...