Markets can show different types of dynamics, from quiet markets dominated by one or few products, to markets with constant penetration of new products. This paper explores the dynamics of markets from a psychological perspective using a multi-agent simulation model. The behavioural rules of the artificial consumers, the consumats, are based on a conceptual meta-theory from psychology. The arti...

This study wants to compare the Integrated Cluster Analysis and SEM model of Warp-PLS approach with various cluster validity indices distance measures on Service Quality, Environment, Fashions, Willingness Pay, Compliant Paying Behavior Bank X Customers. The data used in this are primary. variables service quality, environment, fashion, willingness pay, compliance paying behavior at X. were obt...

Progress in water conservation is dependent as much on human behavior the promise of new technologies. Digital feedback-based interventions present an opportunity to bring these two factors together, increasingly sophisticated technologies can help change behaviors rather than simply solving problems caused by those behaviors. This paper explores various options and opportunities for adopting —...

Abstract Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials have the prospective to enable fabrication of new extracellular matrix-like substrates with unique structures and cell-instructive capabilities. The development biocompatible collagen on-demand ordered architectures is an open challenge since it well-known that directionality fibres affects important cell behaviour, such as proliferation, differentiatio...

As in most other areas of human experience, fashions in healthcare and in healthcare research come and go. They come about because a good idea is articulated, often as a sound bite that makes intrinsic sense, and they go because a few intrepid researchers are prepared to investigate the substance behind the sound bite and they come to realise that the logic is not supported by the reality. The ...

The world is rapidly changing in many aspects concerning veterinary medicine, and man-animal relationships in urban areas represents a real challenge for the profession. Unlike the vertical approach of the academic teaching tradition, veterinary urban hygiene needs a strong holistic-epidemiologic support. Year by year, new animals, new animal uses, new fashions, new zoonoses, and new problems a...

How does gossip spread? How do technologies diffuse within or across societies? How do fads and fashions take hold? How do people learn about job opportunities or recruit workers? All these are examples of information spread over social networks, networks of friendship, family and acquaintance. They play a role in everything from the smooth functioning of economies to the maintenance of social ...

A vital part of microfluidic designs is to impose control over fluid streamlines by microscale structures. In this paper, we describe a method to control streamline steering through different microfluidic entangled networks. These networks were constructed by stacking two distinguishable layers of microchannels face-to-face. We have developed four fundamental nodes, called R, L, N and Z that we...

In IEEE 802.11 based WLANs, nodes sharing an access point (AP) have the equal opportunity to access the link (or channel) through a random access MAC protocol. In consequence, a node sending more packets observes longer delay than other nodes sending less packets. It would be fair enough for best-effort service since the communication cost is not determined by the amount of traffic sent. In a c...