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Consumer Reliance on Statements About Pre-Existing Condition Coverage Creates Potential Liability for Insurance Company

The Hosfords consequently sued State Termite and the Inspector alleging negligence and several other theories of recovery. In the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi, State Termite did not deny that a pest control operator is held to a duty of reasonable care similar to that imposed upon anyone providing expert or specialized services to the public. Rather, State Termite claimed there ...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Deal or No Deal? - Asessing the Daily Deal Shopper

We build upon previous work done in online shopping segmentation but follow a customer-revealed approach by using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 11,848 daily deal shoppers located in Switzerland. We identify six segments into which the daily deal shoppers can be categorized: recreational shoppers, mobile shoppers, traditionalists, bargain hunters, socializers, and convenience se...

What Makes a Hot Deal? Drivers of Deal Popularity in Online Deal Communities

Online deal communities where members can submit deals offered by firms and where they share information on discounted products are currently enjoying great popularity. However, studies on drivers of deal popularity in these communities are still scarce. Although deal popularity may be attributed to a large extent to the discount price, an extensive investigation of why some deals are voted mor...

Smoothing images creates corners

The isophote curvature times the gradient magnitude to some power has been studied in the literature as a measure of cornerness in images. Stability in terms of sampling noise has been proposed by selecting corners at high scale and locating them at fine scale. We will examine the problem of tracking extrema of these measures in the Linear Scale-Space using catastrophe theory. This enables us t...