Using a unique dataset collected through a well-established survey, which was carried out in China, we examine whether Chinese individuals are prone to money illusion. In contrast to the outcomes for US individuals, we find that the Chinese are more likely to base decisions on the real monetary value of economic transactions. We put these observed differences in findings in perspective by compa...

Increased competition on the tissue market forces tissue makers to continuously raise their product quality and increase their operating efficiency. The creping process and the conditions on the Yankee cylinder are the key factors in the production process and they therefore need to be kept under good control in order to maintain a high and uniform quality. Due to evaporation, dissolved substan...

An experiment was performed to investigate whether or not we are able to use octave generalization in recognizing tunes. The first half of the tune “Yankee Doodle” was chosen as the test sequence. This was universally recognized when played in any one of three octaves. However, when the sequence was played in identical fashion except that each note was chosen randomly from one of the same three...

uman resources outsourcing is the fastest-growing outsourcing segment (Dell, 2004). HR outsourcing takes place when a company contracts with an HR vendor to perform an HR activity previously performed by the company (Greer, Youngblood, & Gray, 1999). Forecasts predict that HR outsourcing will continue to grow by more than 30 percent so that the global expenditure on HR outsourcing in the United...