This paper presents empirical evidence that endogenous fixed costs play a central role in determining the equilibrium structure of the retail food industry. Using the framework developed in Sutton [Sutton, J. (1991). Sunk Cost and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration (MIT Press, Cambridge).], I construct a structural model of retail competition in...

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Objectives To examine how often study funding and author conflicts of interest are stated in science health press releases corresponding news; whether disclosure is associated with news. Second, to specifically rates industry-funded studies. Design Retrospective content analysis two cohorts. Setting Press about health, psychology or neuroscience research from universities journals 2011 (n=996) ...

1 A shorter version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the Metrics’98 Symposium, IEEE CS Press Abstract This paper describes ongoing research directed at formulating a set of appropriate measures for assessing and ultimately predicting effort requirements for multimedia systems development. Whilst significant advances have been made in the determination of measures for both transactio...

Please cite this article in press as: Clauberg H j.microrel.2010.05.001 The semiconductor packaging industry is undergoing a step-change transition from gold to copper wire bonding brought on by a quadrupling of gold cost over the last 8 years. The transition has been exceptionally rapid over the last 3 years and virtually all companies in the industry now have significant copper wire bonding p...

Ciaran Murphy University College Cork, Ireland [email protected] Abstract In 1998, Reuters committed resources to exploring the use of XML (Extensible Markup Language) as the foundation for their next-generation news content management system. This was in response to changes in the news industry business model resulting from changing value webs and content delivery methods. The result was ReutersNewsML...

Nine normotensive and 7 borderline hypertensive women were studied to investigate the effects of an acute bout of resistance exercise on recovery blood pressure. The investigation was conducted over 3 sessions. During the first session, subjects were assessed for muscular strength while performing the following exercises: chest press, seated leg press, biceps brachii curl, knee extension, and t...

Pre-exhaustion (PreEx) training is advocated on the principle that immediately preceding a compound exercise with an isolation exercise can target stronger muscles to pre-exhaust them to obtain greater adaptations in strength and size. However, research considering PreEx training method is limited. The present study looked to examine the effects of a PreEx training programme. Thirty-nine traine...

In this paper Semantic Press, a tool for the automatic press review, is introduced. It is based on Text Mining technologies and is tailored to meet the needs of the eGovernment and eParticipation communities. First, a general description of the application demands emerging from the eParticipation and eGovernment sectors is offered. Then, an introduction to the framework of the automatic analysi...