The sales and use of electric vehicles (EVs) have been growing in recent times Europe, with the hopes mitigating CO2 emissions enabling more sustainable transportation. Considering growth EV market, main goal this research is to shed light on what drives vehicles' satisfaction continuance intention. We collected data from 290 drivers Europe. Grounded task-technology fit model expectation-confir...

the origins of sports traditionally dates back to its practice encouraged by religion, custom or militancy, and, therefore, was considered a wholly masculine practice. due to the inextricable link between sports and body management, nowadays, leisure and health have transcended their meaning beyond a certain gender and, consequently, sports has become a wholly ordinary practice for women. to at...

Distributed database directory refresh strategies, commonly recommended for the X.500 standard, are defined and analytically modeled for variations on push/pull and total/differential under idealistic asynchronous control conditions. The models are implemented in a HyperCard-based tool called DirMod (for “directory model”). Experimental test results show important elapsed time performance trade...

Fictitious play (FP) is a canonical game-theoretic learning algorithm which has been 4 deployed extensively in decentralized control scenarios. However standard treatments of FP, and of 5 many other game-theoretic models, assume rather idealistic conditions which rarely hold in realistic 6 control scenarios. This paper considers a broad class of best response learning algorithms, that we 7 refe...

W hy do people work? Economic theory generally, and the principal– agent model specifically, emphasize the role of material incentives. The standard assumption is that people work hard only if they receive monetary compensation for doing so. However, a substantial body of evidence contradicts the standard economic model. Many salaried academics, for example, work diligently year after year, con...

The May 4th Movement of 1919 is a significant period ideological change in Chinese modern history, and it during this time that the enlightenment women made its debut. Led by intellectuals, they, from all angles, criticized traditional social structure, etiquette feudal family system hindering liberation development women, further discussed emancipation terms education, economic independence, s...

This paper investigates the introduction of and consequences of the “Vision Zero” (Nollvisionen) that was part of a law passed in 1997 and called for a radical reduction of deaths caused by road traffic. We try to answer the question why the Vision Zero has failed to reach its goals for the last ten years. The introduction of the Vision Zero can be explained with a combination of changes in tra...