Online games increasingly sell virtual goods to generate real income. As a result, it is increasingly important to identify factors and theory of consumption values that affect intent to purchase virtual goods in online games. However, very little research has been devoted to the topic. This study is an empirical investigation of the factors and theory of consumption values that affect intent t...

Transport Canada’s Dangerous Goods Directorate (TDG) data base of crashes involving a vehicle carrying dangerous goods shows 810 rollovers in 1,874 reported crashes from 1990 to 1998, and 83% of these involved highway tank trucks. TDG is therefore considering approaches to improve the rollover stability of tank trucks used for highway transportation of dangerous goods. TDG asked the Centre for ...

A generic model for the monetary flow in multi-level marketing schemes for virtual goods, so called incentive management systems, is introduced and analysed. It is shown that such schemes can in principle be fair, and it is argued that they can be viably realised if the value of the distributed good is positive. It is shown how the monetary incentive a buyer receives through the scheme can be p...

ness of an element is the ratio of in-degrees over in-degrees plus out-degrees of the element, and ranges from 0 to l (Pieters et al. 1995). Elements with high abstractness scores are

In this paper, vehicle terminal system is proposed to realize continuous monitoring and tracking the location of cargos or goods loaded on board for digital logistics. The embedded design of the terminal system is combines both the RFID with GPS technologies. The ultralow power 16-bit RISC microcontroller is used as the central control unit considering both small size and high efficiency. The v...

I characterize a finite additive utility representation for preferences over menus. The numbers of both positive and negative components in this representation are expressed explicitly in terms of preference. These expressions can be used to characterize models of temptation, perfectionism, context effects, and other phenomena. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D81

INTRODUCTION It has been well documented that individuals with chronic low back pain (CLBP) tend to exhibit different muscle activation patterns in the trunk musculature when compared with healthy individuals. Studies investigating the flexion relaxation phenomenon have observed the persistence of muscle activation during full trunk flexion in CLBP [1], while Silfies et al. [2] found that CLBP ...

Counterfeiting causes hundreds of billions dollars of losses around the world every year. Due to the growing prominence of online commerce, the seriousness of the situation could soon become much worse. Hence, reaching a clear understanding of the fundamental economic incentives behind this practice is of vital importance. In this paper, we investigate a problem within which a firm selling a co...