Given the explosive growth of products available on the Web, providing decision support features to consumers has become an important area of concern for both researchers and practitioners. When encountered with products with multiple attributes, consumers have been shown to use compensatory and non-compensatory decision strategies. This paper investigates the support provided by the top-100 U....

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance from their total correlation. Our empirical results indicate substantial compensatory sorting within and...

Compensatory growth where animals compensate for time stress or transient nutritional or thermal stress by accelerating their growth rate is widespread. We know, however, relatively little about the evolution and ecological correlates of compensatory growth. For this we need studies on congeneric species with known phylogenetic relationships that also focus on the associated largely understudie...

BACKGROUND Synthetic lethal genetic interaction analysis has been successfully applied to predicting the functions of genes and their pathway identities. In the context of synthetic lethal interaction data alone, the global similarity of synthetic lethal interaction patterns between two genes is used to predict gene function. With physical interaction data, such as protein-protein interactions,...

______________________________________________________________________________ This study analyses the characteristics of both recipients and givers of private transfers from a sample of Australian migrants. It utilises a unique longitudinal household survey conducted on immigrants entering Australia with permanent residency. Sample selection bias that arises from the limited observations that ...

Sleep is regulated by independent yet interacting circadian and homeostatic processes. The present study used a novel approach to study sleep homeostasis in the absence of circadian influences by exposing Siberian hamsters to a simple phase delay of the photocycle to make them arrhythmic. Because these hamsters lacked any circadian organization, their sleep homeostasis could be studied in the a...

The renotropic effects of testosterone and testosterone propionate have been demonstrated repeatedly in mice and rats (1, 2, 3). Whether or not the induced increase in size and weight of the organ is associated with any enhanced functional capacity thus far has not been determined. It has been found, however, that the administration of testosterone propionate to female castrated dogs will augme...