Although aspirational brands are commonly referred to in the business literature, no consistent definition exists for the term. Further, “aspirational brand” is often used interchangeably with the term “luxury brand.” This study aims to conceptually define the term “aspirational brand”and delineate it from the well-established term “luxury brand.” A sample of 452 consumers were asked to provide...

We prove that a random choice rule satisfies Luce's Choice Axiom if and only its support is correspondence the Weak of Revealed Preference, thus it consists alternatives are optimal according to some preference, then occurs tie-breaking mechanism among such Renyi's Conditioning Axiom. Our result shows is, in precise formal sense, probabilistic version It supports view his own axiom as “canon ra...

A new axiom is proposed, the Ground Axiom, asserting that the universe is not a nontrivial set forcing extension of any inner model. The Ground Axiom is first-order expressible, and any model of zfc has a class forcing extension which satisfies it. The Ground Axiom is independent of many well-known set-theoretic assertions including the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis, the assertion v=hod that...

We propose that failures of the axiom of choice, that is, surjective functions admitting no sections, can be reasonably classified by means of invariants borrowed from algebraic topology. We show that cohomology, when defined so that its usual exactness properties hold even in the absence of the axiom of choice, is adequate for detecting failures of this axiom in the following sense. If a set X...

BACKGROUND More so than the traditional socioeconomic indicators, such as education and income, wealth reflects the accumulation of resources and makes socioeconomic ranking manifest and explicitly visible to the outside world. While the lack of basic goods, such as a refrigerator, may affect health directly, via biological pathways, the lack of luxury goods, such as an LCD television, may affe...

The usual way to study the local structure of Equilibrium State of an Axiom-A diffeomorphism or flow is to use the symbolic dynamic and to push results on the manifold. A new geometrical method is given. It consists in proving that Equilibrium States for Hölder-continuous functions are related to other Equilibrium States of some special sub-systems satisfying a sort of expansiveness. Using diff...

Work on calculations with simplicial and cubical groups in AXIOM was carried out using loan equipment and software from IBM UK and guidance from L A Lambe. We report on the results of this work, and present the AXIOM code written by the second author during this period. This includes an implementation of the monoids which model cubes and simplices, together with a new AXIOM category of near-rin...