This paper briefly elaborates a cognitive concept of competition by way of semantic associations in the light of marketing theory. It focuses the market for conference activities in the inner city of Stockholm by asking ‘what is competition?’. The result shows that words such as ‘enemy’, ‘destroy’, and ‘conflict’ are not very much associated with words derived from ‘competition’, something indi...

This paper presents a qualitative study of role changes that occur when faculty become virtual professors. In 20 semi-structured interviews of faculty, coded with pattern analysis software, the authors captured role changes enacted by instructors in ALN settings -cognitive roles, affective roles, and managerial roles. The cognitive role, which relates to mental processes of learning, informatio...

The point of purchase is considered to be one the few communication channels that not yet saturated, and it has a relatively large potential for future. A pleasant smell also part shopping atmosphere. How affects customer behaviour purchasing decisions addressed by young scientific field, existing kinds sensory marketing—aroma marketing, otherwise called aromachology. Smell mainly subconscious ...

abstract methane concentrations in kano municipality have been attributed to the burning of solid and fossil fuels and industrial processes. using an automatic gas sampling system, methane in the kano atmosphere was determined. its distribution in the municipality was skewed towards high frequency of low concentration with a mean and standard deviation of 0.61? 0.39 ?g/m3. similarly the distri...

During my 2006-2007 VSGC fellowship I modeled the O2 atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Europa. By assuming that atmospheric O2 can react with species contained in portions of Europa’s surface, my coauthors and I have been able to reproduce the O2 density variations seen by a previously-unexplained HST observation. This work included further refinements to a regolith model that I published previous t...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances have negative effects on medical conditions, mental health and cognitive performance. It was shown that about 60% of inpatients suffer from sleep problems. The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between sleep quality and other factors in the inpatients of Rasoul-e-Akram hospital. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, all the hospitalized patients in...