Before You Purchase a Used Car It is advisable to hire a mechanic to inspect a car you are considering purchasing. Many local repair shops or service stations will inspect the vehicle for a fee. Check in the yellow pages under “Auto Repair” for a listing of shops. When calling, make sure that the shop will check all the vital systems (brakes, belts, steering, oil, cooling system, exhaust, shock...

In spite of a hundred year long history of scientific research compulsive buying has been a hardly known phenomenon until today. Ambiguous scientific information makes it impossible to classify compulsive buying as a separate mental disorder. Recently many researchers have noticed phenomenological compatibility of compulsive buying with behavioural addictions. Nowadays, there is reasonable grou...

If you go to a store in-person for your stash, one strategy you may use is to pick out your other essentials first so condoms aren't the sole focus of attention while browsing the shelves or when you?re at the checkout counter. Need to pick up some more toothpaste? Tampons? Shampoo? Just add them to your shopping list along with your prophylactics. If you'd rather avoid face time altogether, yo...

Around the world, increases in wealth have produced an unintended consequence: a rising sense of time scarcity. We provide evidence that using money to buy time can provide a buffer against this time famine, thereby promoting happiness. Using large, diverse samples from the United States, Canada, Denmark, and The Netherlands (n = 6,271), we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving s...

Before You Purchase a Used Car It is advisable to hire a mechanic to inspect a car you are considering purchasing. Many local repair shops or service stations will inspect the vehicle for a fee. Check in the yellow pages under “Auto Repair” for a listing of shops. When calling, make sure that the shop will check all the vital systems (brakes, belts, steering, oil, cooling system, exhaust, shock...

If you go to a store in-person for your stash, one strategy you may use is to pick out your other essentials first so condoms aren't the sole focus of attention while browsing the shelves or when you?re at the checkout counter. Need to pick up some more toothpaste? Tampons? Shampoo? Just add them to your shopping list along with your prophylactics. If you'd rather avoid face time altogether, yo...

Actually using MT is not just a matter of buying a system, installing it, and feeding text through. Real-world text comes with spelling mistakes, bad grammar, missing portions, etc. But perhaps the users don't care, and just want a rough idea of what the text is about. Aspects of the environment surrounding the system and the tasks for which the output is used can contribute significantly to th...

The changing research and information environment requires a reexamination of library support for research. This study considers research-related attitudes and practices to identify elements indicating readiness or resistance to expanding the library’s role in research support. A survey of faculty conducted at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) finds that although a high percentage of fa...

In modern business environment, product life cycle gets shorter and the customer’s buying preference changes over time. Time plays a more and more important role in collaborative filtering. However, there is a gap in one class collaborative filtering (OCCF). On the basis of collecting different real-time information, this paper proposes an optimization model for e-retailers. Through comparing d...