Powerlessness of a Number

Powerlessness of a Number

The national burden of sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains high at an annual incidence estimated at 183 000 and continues to account for a disproportionately elevated fraction of all cardiovascular deaths. Despite therapeutic advances in the treatment of coronary heart disease and heart failure and emphasis on SCD primary prevention with prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs...

Negotiating Deals From a Position of Powerlessness

Negotiators are strongly advised to identify viable alternatives that they can fall back on during a negotiation. After all, alternatives give negotiators the power to extract more concessions from their opponent. The better your BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) the less dependent you are on the other negotiator for finalising a deal. In fact, past research has shown that nego...

Paranoia and the structure of powerlessness.

Uniform Number of a Graph

We introduce the notion of uniform number of a graph. The  uniform number of a connected graph $G$ is the least cardinality of a nonempty subset $M$ of the vertex set of $G$ for which the function $f_M: M^crightarrow mathcal{P}(X) - {emptyset}$ defined as $f_M(x) = {D(x, y): y in M}$ is a constant function, where $D(x, y)$ is the detour distance between $x$ and $y$ in $G$ and $mathcal{P}(X)$ ...

Consequences of customer powerlessness: Secondary control

This research investigated the consequences of powerlessness when consumers experience service failure with a company that has high-exit barriers. The specific consequences investigated were three types of secondary control, which are grudge-holding, avoidance (predictive avoidance), and retaliation desire. These secondary control coping strategies highlight consumers’ ability to control their ...