i Acknowledgements I want to thank my supervisor Dr.-Ing. Eike Schallehn for all efforts and time that he spent on this thesis. He gives me many useful advices of how to write and organize my content. I also want to thank M.Sc. Stefan Barthel for giving me the original direction of this thesis. Last but not least, many thanks to my family and friends for their support and encouragement during t...

At present, in the fashion domain, the uniform advantage of tatting products have been broken by knitting products which suddenly rise and partly occupy the market, so the situation that knitting products and tatting products occupy the market together begins to form. Because of their own characters of knitting dress or tatting dress, they can not be replaced. But in future, the knitting dress ...

We investigated how people would change and vary in accepting advice when the effectiveness of advice was unclear. In each trial, participants estimated a monthly rent of an apartment room based on the attribute list. Then, another estimate by a real-estate agent was given as advice. Participants made a final estimation, either by taking the advice fully, partially, or rejecting it totally. The...

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