Growth of wireless home networking solutions has meant that household computers are now not just connected to the Internet and each other but to passers-by on the street. It is the aim of Wireless Intrusion Detection systems to identify and log malicious behaviour and report it to the administrator. This study compares contemporary products aimed at the Small Office/Home Office and personal mar...

Bacterial loads of Street served foods and cut fruits sold in open market was assessed. The mean viable plate count was 2.4x107/gm, highest being 7x10 /gm found in meat group foods. Eighteen percent food samples, mostly, either processed foods, carbonated drinks or foods served boiling hot were found sterile. All other foods examined yielded very high standard aerobic plate count per gram, indi...

T his feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Depa...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the reproductive health or family planning needs of street-connected children and youth in resource-constrained countries. The study objective was to describe how street-connected children and youth (SCCY) in Eldoret, Kenya, perceive pregnancy. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted between August 2013 and February 2014. A total of 65 SCCY aged 11-24 year...

The aim of the chapter is to discuss and illustrate different approaches taken in the area of empirical market segmentation in tourism, and to raise conceptual, practical and methodological problems in this context. The chapter is limited to the discussion of empirical market segmentation, which means that an empirical data set (typically resulting from a tourist survey) represents the basis. P...

This study examines individual behavior in two well-functioning marketplaces to investigate whether market experience eliminates the endowment effect. Field evidence from both markets suggests that individual behavior converges to the neoclassical prediction as market experience increases. In an experimental test of whether these observations are due to treatment (market experience) or selectio...

We consider a model of directed search where the sellers are allowed to post mechanisms with entry fees. Regardless of the number of buyers and sellers, the sellers are able to extract all the surplus of the buyers by introducing entry fees and making price schedules positively sloped in the number of buyers arriving to their shops. This is in contrast to results that are achieved for large mar...

The efficient market hypothesis states that investors immediately incorporate all available information into the price of an asset to accurately reflect its value at any given time. The sheer volume of information immediately available electronically makes it difficult for a single investor to keep abreast of all information for a single stock, let alone multiple. We aim to determine how quickl...

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