This study investigates the effect of co-production on customer loyalty (attitudinal and behavioral separately) and factors which may boost co-production in an Iranian bank. To investigate co-production in banking services, the proposed model of Auh et al. (2007) was applied. Given the fact that many banks try to get the status of their main customers, co-production was examined due to its pote...

Oscillation properties of solutions of the forced second order linear difference equation ∆(rk∆xk) + ckxk+1 = hk are investigated. The authors show that if the forcing term h does not oscillate, in some sense, too rapidly, then the oscillation of the unforced equation implies oscillation of the forced equation. Some results illustrating this statement and extensions to the more general half-lin...

This study explored the relationship between psychological traits, demographics and financial behavioral biases for individual investors in Taiwan stock market. By using questionnaire survey method conducted in 2010, there are 554 valid convenient samples collected to examine the determinants of three types of behavioral biases. Based on literature review, two hypothesized models are constructe...

This paper explores the development of students' knowledge of mathematical procedures. Students' tendency to develop rote knowledge of procedures has been widely commented on. I postulate an alternative, more "intelligent" endpoint for the development of procedural knowledge, where students choose to deviate from established solving patterns on particular problems for greater efficiency. The pu...

This study developed and tested a theory-based measure of authentic leadership using five separate samples obtained from China, Kenya, and the United States. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a higher order, multidimensional model of the authentic leadership construct (the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire [ALQ]) comprising leader self-awareness, relational transparency, internalized mora...

The dynamical evolution of a chemically reacting system is governed by the equations of chemical kinetics, which exhibit a wide range of time scales thus giving rise to stiff equations. In the ratecontrolled constrained equilibrium method (RCCE), the dynamical evolution of the system is governed by the kinetics of the species associated with the slower timescales (kinetically controlled), while...

A regular matrix pencil sE − A and its rank one perturbations are considered. We determine the sets in C ∪ {∞} which are the eigenvalues of the perturbed pencil. We show that the largest Jordan chains at each eigenvalue of sE − A may disappear and the sum of the length of all destroyed Jordan chains is the number of eigenvalues (counted with multiplicities) which can be placed arbitrarily in C∪...

We consider an inhomogeneous linear Boltzmann equation, with an external confining potential. The collision operator is a simple relaxation toward a local Maxwellian, therefore without diffusion. We prove the exponential time decay toward the global Maxwellian, with an explicit rate of decay. The methods are based on hypoelliptic methods transposed here to get spectral information. They were in...

  Diffusivity equation commonly used for pressure distribution prediction in porous media results from substituting equation of state and continuity equation in Navier-Stokes momentum equation. From mathematical point of view this equation format shows infinite propagation speed for pressure pulse through porous media, which is physically impossible. This issue may caused by numerous assumption...

We propose a Hamilton-Jacobi equation approach for computing time-optimal trajectories of a vehicle which travels under certain curvature constraints. We derive a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations which models such motions; it unifies two well-known vehicular models, the Dubins’ and Reeds-Shepp’s cars, and gives further generalizations. We show that the value function of the control problem so...