names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. this paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. using a variety of personal names from ayi kwei armah’s fragments, buchi emecheta’s the joys of motherhood, and nawal el sadaaw...

Names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. This paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. Using a variety of personal names from Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, a...

College admissions, a process that thousands of students undergo each year, involves great administrative and human resources. This process has only been investigated in terms of affirmative action, discrimination, correlates for admissions, and the creation of linear systems for prediction. This research applies the decision making under uncertainty framework to this high-involvement, expert d...

People judge whether they want to be high-skilled workers by considering the economic returns and effort required skill. This study considers two regions: an advanced industrial region, where increase variety of goods through innovation, underdeveloped region innovation does not occur. Here, become high-skilled, regions origin potential abilities. Numerical simulations show that proportion reac...

We allow quality variations in a duopoly of locationally differentiated products a-la-Hotelling (1929). We analyze the impact of quality variations on the choices of the varieties produced. We show that in a sequential game of variety choice and subsequent quality and price choice there exist only maximal variety differentiation equilibria in pure strategies. Maximal variety differentiation is ...