Consider a market with identical firms offering homogeneous good. For any given ex ante distribution of the price count (the number from which consumer obtains quote), we derive tight upper bound on equilibrium sales prices. The holds across all models firms’ common-prior higher-order beliefs about count, including extreme cases full information and no information. One implication our results i...

introduction: the drive for health care and medical sciences to become evidence-based has been accelerated during recent years and therefore quick access to relevant information without the use of information and communication technology seems impossible. the aim of this study was to evaluate medical students' knowledge of computers and information science in urmia university. methods: this sur...

Abstract: Information behavior is one of the important research fields in the knowledge management. It could be considered as an effective factor in design, development and evaluation of data mining applications. This paper introduces an approach called elite information behavior in response to educational and research evolutions. This research is quantitative and tries to investigate the diffe...

Information search in a distributed environment is an interactive process that involves both retrieval and the processing of information across users and artifacts. How the information is distributed across internal representations and external representations affects the efficacy of information search. Using a human-centered method called UFuRT, we developed an information search model and a t...