Competitive purposefulness

Purposefulness and Meaningfulness as Therapeutic Mechanisms

I chose the topic of therapeutic occupation because that was what attracted me to the profession, and it is the concept about which I have thought most. I became an occupational therapist because I liked arts and crafts and “medical things.” When I was about 11 years old, my friend’s sister came home with paintings and jewelry and other things she had made at college. She was enrolled in the oc...

How competitive is competitive bidding?

6 Competitive Networks and Competitive Learning

Competitive neural networks belong to a class of recurrent networks, and-they are based on algorithms of unsupervised learning, such as the competitive algorithm explained in this section. In competitive learning, the output neurons of a neural network compete among themselves to become active (to be "fired"). Whereas in multiplayer perceptrons several output neurons may be active simultaneousl...

Complex competitive systems and competitive thermodynamics.

This publication reviews the framework of abstract competition, which is aimed at studying complex systems with competition in their generic form. Although the concept of abstract competition has been derived from a specific field--modelling of mixing in turbulent reacting flows--this concept is, generally, not attached to a specific phenomenon or application. Two classes of competition rules, ...

Competitive Framing∗

I present a simple framework for modeling two-firm market competition, where each firm chooses a market alternative as well as a costless “marketing message”. Consumers follow a frame-dependent choice function, where the frame is a probabilistic function of the firms’ marketing messages. This framework embeds several recent models in the literature on markets with boundedly rational consumers. ...