Competition Based Minor Projects–A New Experience

Competition in Consumer Shopping Experience

T paper analyzes the competitive role of retail shopping experience in markets with consumer search costs. We examine how a retailer’s advantage in providing consumer shopping experience affects its equilibrium pricing and price advertising strategies. We find that if the consumer valuation of a shopping experience is sufficiently low, its effect on retailer strategy is similar to that of quali...

Problem Based Learning: An Experience of a New Educational Method in Dentistry

Introduction: Considering the necessity of dentistry students' involvement in learning treatment topics and, in order to achieve deeper learning, this study was performed to evaluate problem based learning method and compare it to traditional method of teaching orthodontics to dentistry students. Methods: This interventional study was performed on 64, fifth year dentistry students in 2007-200...

The 1st Verified Software Competition: Experience Report

We, the organizers and participants, report our experiences from the 1st Verified Software Competition, held in August 2010 in Edinburgh at the VSTTE 2010 conference.

Procurement Competition at Work: The Manufacturer's Experience

The New Systems Competition

While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to the bottom in the sense that capital will not even pay for the infrastructure it uses and erode nation...