The goal of this economics project is to see if various retail formats actually show a difference in their pricing. To execute this project I selected a product category that the many different retail formats carried, and compared the prices of identical products sold in this category between the different retail formats. The product category I chose to research was women’s fragrances. Identica...

Introduction 150 Organization 152 Acknowledgments 152 1. Symmetric spectra 153 1.1. Simplicial sets 153 1.2. Symmetric spectra 154 1.3. Simplicial structure on Sp 156 1.4. Symmetric Ω-spectra 158 2. The smash product of symmetric spectra 159 2.1. Symmetric sequences 159 2.2. Symmetric spectra 162 2.3. The ordinary category of spectra 165 3. Stable homotopy theory of symmetric spectra 165 3.1. S...

The objective of this article is to estimate the derived demand for imported cheese products into Japan when cheese import data are disaggregated by specific cheese group and by source country of production+We provide empirical measures of the sensitivity of demand to changes in total imports, own-price, and cross-prices among exporting countries for four market segments of the cheese category+...

Applying a Software Process Improvement (SPI) program to GEANT4 [1] represents a rather challenging task, both in terms of software development and organisational matters. The complexity of the software involved, the wide areas of application of the software product, the huge amount of code and Category complexity, and the size and distributed nature of the Collaboration itself are all ingredie...

We introduce a tensor product for symmetric monoidal categories with the following properties. Let SMC denote the 2-category with objects small symmetric monoidal categories, arrows symmetric monoidal functors and 2-cells monoidal natural transformations. Our tensor product together with a suitable unit is part of a structure on SMC that is a 2-categorical version of the symmetric monoidal clos...

Purpose Products that espouse environmental ethical principles have received increasing attention in recent years. However, one key barrier against sustainable consumption is green attributes could result consumer’s expectation of decreased product physical performance. This study aims to investigate how existing different categories affect consumer purchase intention. Design/methodology/approa...

Two experiments examined whether self-regulatory goals addressed in advertising claims influence product preferences and category-brand associations. Experiment 1 provided evidence for the hypothesis that the fit between an advertising claim and consumers’ regulatory focus has an impact on product preferences. Participants were more likely to prefer products presented in an advertisement with a...

We present a comparative study of certain invariants defined for group actions and their analogues orbifolds. In particular, we prove that Fadell's equivariant category $G$-spaces coincides with the Lusternik-Schnirelmann orbifolds when is finite.