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 ...

A method is developed for model predictive control of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations (PDEs) to regulate the state variance, which physically represents the roughness of a surface in a thin film growth process, to a desired level. Initially a nonlinear stochastic PDE is formulated into a system of infinite nonlinear stochastic ordinary differential equations by using Galerki...

The predictive effects of peer victimization and harsh parenting on deliberate self-harm were examined. As derived from the experiential avoidance model, the study also tested whether these links were moderated by individual self-regulation approaches. Data were collected at two points in time from 880 junior high school students (mean age=13.72) in Sweden. Analyses using structural equation mo...

The paper addresses the task of multi-target polynomial regression, i.e., the task of inducing polynomials that can predict the value of more then one numeric variable. As in other learning tasks, we face the problem of finding an optimal trade-off between the complexity of the induced model and its predictive error. We propose a minimal description length scheme for multi-target polynomial reg...

This paper considers the model predictive control of dynamic systems subject to stochastic uncertainties due to parametric uncertainties and exogenous disturbance. The effects of uncertainties are quantified using generalised polynomial chaos expansions with an additive Gaussian random process as the exogenous disturbance. With Gaussian approximation of the resulting solution trajectory of a st...

This paper describes the various frequency domain methods which may be used to analyze experiments data on the force experienced by a circular cylinder in wave and current to estimate drag and inertia coefficients for use in Morison’s equation. An additional approach, system identification techniques (SIT) is also introduced. A set of data obtained from experiments on heavily roughened circular...

This paper describes various time-domain methods useful for analyzing the experimental data obtained from a circular cylinder force in terms of both wave and current for estimation of the drag and inertia coefficients applicable to the Morison’s equation. An additional approach, weighted least squares method is also introduced. A set of data obtained from experiments on heavily roughened circul...