The paper analyzes stockouts resulting from hurricanes to study whether consumers are persistent in their brand choices.

This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We pay particular attention to the potential problems in such an evaluation study, namely selectivity and endogeneity, by first identifying a valid counterfactual for grant receiving plants via a matc...

This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We pay particular attention to the potential problems in such an evaluation study, namely selectivity and endogeneity, by first identifying a valid counterfactual for grant receiving plants via a matc...

Introduction: In research, a simple measure of general cognitive ability is often required. One method the Matrix Matching Test, brief, free-to-use, language-free assessment or intelligence in adults, which taps both fluid and crystalized processes. We investigated its reliability validity with adolescent participants. Method:The Test was administered to 111 participants, aged 12 17 (46% female...

the concept of evidence based medicine (ebm) involves a systematic approach for integration of best available research evidence into medical decision making for physicians, medical trainees and researchers. the ebm process includes five essential steps: formulating the questions, searching for evidence, appraising the evidence, and applying and evaluating the results (1). in a descriptive study...

Metaphor analysis is a way of obtaining understanding of a text by identifying and analysing the metaphors used in it. Metaphor analysis, as usually described, uses the researcher’s intuition as a means of identifying the metaphors. MIP, the Metaphor Identification Procedure, uses a more valid and repeatable way of finding the metaphors. MIP may be applied in a way that will produce a quantitat...