A good reputation can be an effective bond for honest behavior in a community of traders if members of the community know how others have behaved in the past even if any particular pair of traders meets only infrequently. In a large community, it would be impossibly costly for traders to be perfectly informed about each other's behavior, but there exist institutions that can restore the effecti...

In recent years, many new and interesting models of successful online business have been developed, including competitive models such as auctions, where the product price tends to rise, and group-buying, where users cooperate obtaining a dynamic price that tends to go down. We propose the e-fair as a business model for social commerce, where both sellers and buyers are grouped to maximize benef...

The rural market was an important constituent of marketing system, and formed an un-vertical congruent relationship with urban market in late imperial China. There were different types of rural fair in the imperial China. Xu, Chang, Ji, Dian, Shi, Hui, all of them were the regular fairs. Their number was huge. They distributed widely, played a distinct role, and became the base of rural market ...

Keywords: human values, book fairs, values in communication.

Bluetooth [1] is a wireless access mechanism where polling is used to share bandwidth among the participants. We introduce a new poller named Predictive Fair Poller [2] (PFP). We compare this poller with the conventional Round Robin poller and the Fair Exhaustive Poller [4] and show through simulations that the Predictive Fair Poller is able to divide bandwidth in a fair and efficient manner.

BACKGROUND Breast cancer patients are confronted with a serious diagnosis that requires them to make important decisions throughout the journey of the disease. For these decisions to be made it is critical that the patients be well informed. Previous studies have been consistent in their findings that breast cancer patients have a high need for information on a wide range of topics. This paper ...

Check which organisations are seeking students with your degree or discipline and make a list of preferred employers. Visit the websites of these organisations and fi nd out as much as you can about the organisation (size, location, products, services, structure, graduate program, career opportunities) and their recruitment process (closing dates, online application procedures, interview and as...