The goal of this research work is to investigate the relationship between switching barriers and customers' commitment. It is considered that different types of switching barriers have an opposite influence on the commitment of clients: it can be either a destructive effect or a beneficial effect on the long-term relationship between partners. We have distinguished between two types of switchin...

It has been proposed that the capacity to code the 'like me' analogy between self and others constitutes a basic prerequisite and a starting point for social cognition. It is by means of this self/other equivalence that meaningful social bonds can be established, that we can recognize others as similar to us, and that imitation can take place. In this article I discuss recent neurophysiological...

Modern browsers have a highly concurrent page rendering process in order to be more responsive. However, such a concurrent execution model leads to various race issues. In this paper, we present ARROW, a static technique that can automatically, safely, and cost effectively patch certain race issues on client side pages. It works by statically modeling a web page as a causal graph denoting happe...

With the maturity of service outsourcing market and development business relations, core is shifting from transactional services to risk sharing value creation. The client provider have an increasing interest in innovation. Although cooperative innovation between them has many benefits, two parties do not necessarily establish a relationship. Regarding this issue, evolutionary game focusing on ...

Considerable attention has been paid to dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) which allows users search on dynamically updated encrypted databases. To improve the performance of real-world applications, recent non-interactive multi-client DSSE schemes are targeted at avoiding per-query interaction between data owners and users. However, existing do not consider forward privacy or backw...

We review the relationship between polygyny and HIV and identify a positive individual-level correlation, and a negative ecological correlation. We subsequently examine two mechanisms that contribute to the individual-level correlation. First, we find that men in polygynous marriages have more extramarital sex than men in monogamous unions (both in terms of self reports and in terms of spousal ...

where the variables α and β range over entities of some sort, and where ∼ is an equivalence relation on this sort of entity. Frege’s inconsistent Basic Law V shows that not every such principle is acceptable. A variety of criteria for acceptable abstraction have been proposed.1 In this note I analyze the logical relations between some of the proposed criteria, in particular conservativeness, ir...