purchase and consumption are an inseparable part of man’s social actions and play a vital role in allocating resources for the production of various products, their distribution pattern as well as economic, political and social development. if this issue is to be seen from the perspective of consumer behavior, consumption patterns and purchasing are considered a cultural phenomenon to be explai...

We currently witness the emergence of interesting new network topologies optimized towards the traffic matrices they serve, such as demand-aware datacenter interconnects (e.g., ProjecToR) and demandaware overlay networks (e.g., SplayNets). This paper introduces a formal framework and approach to reason about and design such topologies. We leverage a connection between the communication frequenc...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, families are having to coordinate their behaviors face new challenges, such as negotiating social distancing measures that family will or not take in daily interaction. This study utilizes Family Communication Patterns Theory examine conversations young adults reported with members about and what factors predicted outcomes of these disagreements. A family’s level con...