Increased competition is making it difficult to distinguish products solely by attributes, creating room for cause-related marketing. In this study with a sample of 322 university students, we evaluated the changes in consumer attitudes toward cause and brand as consequences of Cause Brand Alliance (CBA), by using the product category as moderator. Four popular brands from two product categorie...

Real annual consumption growth has averaged about 3.7% between 1998 Q1 and 2003 Q3—well above real average annual GDP growth of about 2.6% during that period. (2) Chart 1 shows that the buoyancy of consumer spending can be entirely accounted for by strong growth in durable and semi-durable goods expenditure (henceforth referred to as 'durable spending' unless otherwise specified). Since 1998 Q1...

The ocean is home to many kinds of aquatic species. state the sea currently on verge declining because waste thrown into it. There has be a sanctuary retain population animals, such as aquarium facility. This facility will also inform public—especially children—about species still available today, just like zoo. With functionalism architecture approach, expected durable in long run and more acc...

In this paper, we develop a two-sector DSGE model with infrequent purchases of durable goods and use it to address the following three issues. Does this model help explain the recent weak recovery? Can this model help resolve the absence of co-movement between durable and non-durable consumption? Is the dynamic behavior of this model similar with that of the (durable goods) stock adjustment-cos...

We study the cyclical effects of the timing of durable goods purchases in a general equilibrium model in which both durable and non-durable goods are consumed and the durable good is lumpy. At the microeconomic level, the timing of durable goods purchases supplies some insulation for nondurable consumption over the cycle. At the macroeconomic level, the timing decisions tend to amplify and prop...

this paper represents a theoretical model from which the supply function for a durable goods is derived. it turns out that consumer at the equilibrium condition equates its user cost with the marginal value of services received by using an additional unit of durable goods. the stock price is obtained from this condition. in addition, at the equilbrium condition for producer, the stock price is ...

The lack of large-scale, freely available and durable lexical resources, and the consequences for NLP, is widely acknowledged but the attempts to cope with usual bottlenecks preventing their development often result in dead-ends. This article introduces a language-independent, semi-automatic and endogenous method for enriching lexical resources, based on collaborative editing and random walks t...

The dentine-enamel junction (DEJ) is an important internal interface with strong and durable bonding between the hard outer layer (enamel) and the soft inner tooth core (dentine). This study investigated the microstructure of the DEJ by X-ray imaging method and synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques. Further high resolution elastic modulus mapping indicates that the DEJ is a band with a graded...

flexibility as an ability to respond to changing circumstances is one of the vital characteristics of the natural and built environment. during the contemporary era, diversity of methods relating the architectural flexibility execution are suggested. but along with contemporary conceptual approaches toward pluralism and uncertainty, it seems that the multiplicity of approaches toward flexibilit...