We study how business customers make multi-product purchase decisions and how the distributors who sell those products can make inferences about their demand functions with incomplete information. The problem is that distributors rarely observe a competitor's price directly, and must infer competitor response indirectly from their own observations about customer purchases. In this research we p...

Several investigations have been devoted towards understanding the coating process in fluidized beds. Most of these studies focused on spraying liquid droplets over the bed. However, due to the complexity of these systems, more investigations are still required to quantify the effect of operating conditions on the coating criteria. The present work aims at fundamentally understanding and pr...

By 15 months of age infants are sensitive to violations of fairness norms as assessed via their enhanced visual attention to unfair versus fair outcomes in violation-of-expectation paradigms. The current study investigated whether 15-month-old infants select social partners on the basis of prior fair versus unfair behavior, and whether infants integrate social selections on the basis of fairnes...

33 Thyroid hormones (THs) are vital for normal postnatal development. Extracellular TH distributor 34 proteins create an intravascular reservoir of THs. Transthyretin (TTR) is a TH distributor protein in the 35 circulatory system and is the only TH distributor protein synthesised in the central nervous system. We 36 investigated the phenotype of TTR null mice during development. Total and free ...

With wide spread acceptance of virtualization, virtual machines (VMs) find their presence in various applications such as NAT servers, firewall servers and MapReduce applications, where a data manager collects data from the external world and distributes it to multiple workers for further processing. Currently, application managers can share data with workers either using network or inter-VM sh...

In this paper, we propose an information distribution system with reinforcement learning so that the information can be distributed to users with a small number of distributions. In this system, the information distributor moves along the same route and distributes the information to users by using the wireless communication technology. Here, we consider a case where the distributor would like ...

Abstract Fluid flow through layered materials with different wetting behavior is observed in a wide range of applications biological, environmental and technical systems. Therefore, it necessary to understand the occuring transport mechanisms fluids at interface between constituents. Of special interest water polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Here, throughout cell constituents especially...