BACKGROUND In most of the developing world, ownership of modern household assets such as television sets, refrigerators, microwave ovens and washing machines is becoming common. Ownership of these household assets, however, promotes sedentary behaviour which has implications for obesity and non-communicable disease conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke and other cardiovascular condi...

An RFID tag could change hands many times during its lifetime. In a retail chain, the ownership of the tag is instituted by the supplier who initially owns the tag. In the view of a buyer, the validity of the current tag ownership and the originality of supplier are most important. In typical RFID ownership transfer protocols, the knowledge of the tag's authentication key proves the ownership. ...

The exact relation between the sense that one’s body is one’s own (body-ownership) and the sense that one controls one’s own bodily actions (agency) has been the focus of much speculation, but remains unclear. On an ‘additive’ model, agency and body-ownership are strongly related; the ability to control actions is a powerful cue to body-ownership. This view implies a component common to the sen...

We develop an economic model that relaxes assumptions in Property Rights Theory to allow for investment in innovation that can benefit both client and vendor in an IT outsourcing relationship. Our model offers an explanation for the empirically observed heterogeneity in asset ownership structure. We find that optimal ownership structure can vary due to the different incentives of the client and...

Purpose: This article evaluates the impact of chain ownership of nursing homes by examining whether facilities demonstrate variation in services, staffing and health outcomes across three structural dimensions—chain ownership, chain and facility size and proprietary status. Design and Methods: We link files of facility inspection reports from 1991 through 1997, excluding government facilities. ...

What effect does firm structure have on the product service quality on offer? We answer this question by empirically assessing the impacts of complete vertical separation, such as ownership unbundling, on the quality of service delivered by a liberalized network industry. Electricity distribution utilities in New Zealand are considered for this purpose. The results show robust evidence that own...

Based on case studies of several firms, accounting researchers have argued that traditional costing systems constructed using volume-related drivers understate the true costs of variety and other non-volume drivers. As a result, managers do not have appropriate information to make optimal tradeoffs between the costs and benefits of such strategic cost drivers. This supposed distortion in optima...

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing has demonstrated potential in measuring forest biomass. We assessed the ability of LiDAR to accurately estimate forest total above ground biomass (TAGB) on an individual stem basis in a conifer forest in the US Pacific Northwest region using three different computer software programs and compared results to field measurements. Software programs...