While there is general agreement that consumer taste heterogeneity is crucially important in marketing, there is no consensus on a preferred approach to modeling heterogeneity. In this paper, we assess the performance of five alternative choice models, using ten empirical data sets. We include the popular latent class (LC) model, and the mixed logit (MIXL) model where utility weights are assume...

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Laterally spreading tumor (LST) is a colorectal pre-cancerous lesion. Previous studies have demonstrated distinct LST clinicopathological characteristics in different populations. This study evaluated clinicopathological characteristics of LST in a Chinese population. METHODS A total of 259 Chinese LST patients with 289 lesions were recruited for endoscopic and clinicopath...

g-frames in hilbert spaces are a redundant set of operators which yield a repre-sentation for each vector in the space. in this paper we investigate the connection betweeng-frames, g-orthonormal bases and g-riesz bases. we show that a family of bounded opera-tors is a g-bessel sequences if and only if the gram matrix associated to its denes a boundedoperator.

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Abstract We refine the geometric Satake equivalence due to Ginzburg, Beilinson–Drinfeld, and Mirkovi?–Vilonen an between mixed Tate motives on double quotient $$L^+ G {\backslash }LG / L^+ G$$ L + G \ / </mml...

Amino acids and peptides release gastrin and stimulate gastric acid secretion. However, the relation between gastrin release and acid secretory response is unclear. An isotonic mixed amino acid solution (casein hydrolysate) was continuously infused into the stomach of eight healthy human subjects. Acid secretion, measured by in vivo intragastric titration, increased 12.8 meq/h over the response...

A lab-scale biofilter packed with mixed packing materials was used for degradation of toluene. Different empty bed residence times, 148.3, 74.2 and 49.4 s, were tested for inlet concentration ranging from 0.2 to 1.2 g/m(3). The maximum elimination capacity of 36.0 g/(m(3) h) occurred at an inlet loading rate of 45.9 g/(m(3) h). The contribution of the lower layer was higher than other layers an...

The performance of nanocomposite electrodes prepared by controlled ball-milling of TiS₂ and a Li₂S-P₂S₅ solid electrolyte (SE) for all-solid-state lithium batteries is investigated, focusing on the evolution of the microstructure. Compared to the manually mixed electrodes, the ball-milled electrodes exhibit abnormally increased first-charge capacities of 416 mA h g(-1) and 837 mA h g(-1) in the...

Stereo-video scuba transects were conducted during daylight hours from June to September 2013 within a proposed marine protected area (MPA) in the Firth of Clyde, west of Scotland. More juvenile Atlantic cod Gadus morhua of fork length (LF ) range 6-11 cm were observed in substrata containing mixed gravel, including maerl, than in boulder-cobble substrata with high algal cover, or sand with low...