Additional Floors in Old Apartment Blocks

Human-robot Coexistence in Robot-aided Apartment

Historically the kind of technologies used in homes has been in the form of electrical appliances such as washing machines, ovens, etc. Later was introduced the classic “Home Automation” concept, which involves improvements like computer-controlled devices such as lights, alarms, different sensors, etc. The classic devices have always been static, this means they are installed in the house and ...

Price Floors and Competition

A potential source of instability of many economic models is that agents have little incentive to stick with the equilibrium. We show experimentally that this may matter with price competition. The control variable is a price floor, which increases the cost of deviating from equilibrium. Theoretically the floor allows competitors to obtain higher profits, as low prices are excluded. However, be...

The Prominence Effect in Shanghai Apartment Prices

Vol. XLV (April 2008), 1– 1 © 2008, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Christopher K. Hsee is Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), JeanPierre Dubé is Professor of Marketing and Neubauer Faculty Fellow (e-mail: [email protected]), and Yan Zhang is a doctoral candidate (e-mail: yzhang6...

Globalization And Inequality In Different Economic Blocks

Error Floors of LDPC Codes

We introduce a computational technique that accurately predicts performance for a given LDPC code in the error floor region. We present some results obtained by applying the technique and describe certain aspects of it.