Our research focuses on the fast-changing landscape of contemporary social media where user-generated content is increasingly being used to evaluate a wide range of products and services. The move to online valuations is raising important questions about how valuations change when they are produced online by consumers, and what outcomes they generate for the organizations being evaluated. To ad...

Although the expectancies component of the Comprehensive Effects of Alcohol Questionnaire has previously been shown to be factorially valid, the factor structure of its valuations component has not previously been examined. The aims of this paper were: (i) to replicate the factor structure of the expectancies items; (ii) to explore the factor structure of the valuations items; and (iii) to inve...

Given a valuation on the function field k(x, y), we examine the set of images of nonzero elements of the underlying polynomial ring k[x, y] under this valuation. For an arbitrary field k, a Noetherian power series is a map z : Q → k that has Noetherian (i.e., reverse well-ordered) support. Each Noetherian power series induces a natural valuation on k(x, y). Although the value groups correspondi...