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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...

An NIH/NSF for Europe?

The hottest topic on the agenda of European science administrators and scientists is the recent proposal for the creation of a European Research Council (ERC). The idea is to establish a Europe-wide funding agency, which will support research projects based only on the criteria of the proposals’ scientific quality and the applicants’ proven track record. Such a system, probably modelled after t...

NIH Roadmap for Medical Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research is a collection of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the Nation's medical research capabilities and improve the translation of research into practice. As described below, the Roadmap consists of three major themes: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and reengineering the clinical research ent...

A Better Deal for Subnormals

The past few years have seen a greater recognition of the part that research can play in estimating the need for medical care services, in analysing the ways in which such services actually function, as distinct from the ways in which they are conventionally assumed to function, and in assessing their effects upon patients. Such operational studies have already done a great deal to deepen our u...