The purpose of this study was to observe and analyze the consumer behaviors and commentary of the Black Friday customer. An observational instrument documented consumer in-line behavior while waiting for the stores to open, store entry behavior, and individual behavior. Findings show that the majority of the shoppers demonstrated calmness, courteousness, and happiness during the shopping experi...

how the connections can be modulated and are flexible in different contexts. We approach these connections of internal representation through models of minimal cognitive systems in a bottom-up approach (Schilling and Cruse, submitted; Schilling and Cruse, 2008). An early neural network model of the own body is grounded in a biological-inspired framework that controls walking in a hexapod robot....

Adolescents engage in a wide range of risky behaviors that their older peers shun, and at an enormous cost. Despite being older, stronger, and healthier than children, adolescents face twice the risk of mortality and morbidity faced by their younger peers. Are adolescents really risk-seekers or does some richer underlying preference drive their love of the uncertain? To answer that question, we...

Although distracted drivers are claiming more and more lives each year, drivers continue to perform dangerous behaviors behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. Of all driving distractions, texting and driving has proven to be one of the most dangerous. This research investigated the effect of text messaging on driver reaction, and whether the effect varied as a function of gender. Thirty-five Wic...

During this period, four successive regimes in Bangladesh have felt reluctantly compelled to set up structures for local participation in government. Each found it had to reach out beyond the support of urban and rural elites and the military if it was to move beyond mere stability to real development of the country. Despite many problems. most notably local elite takeover at local level and mi...

We developed a game-theoretic approach concerning the option pricing validity and tractability of which is ascertained by deriving the Black-Scholes formula. We also applied this approach to the welfare implications of the bailout policy. It is found that such a policy always worsens the economic welfare. This is because of the moral hazardous behavior of the buyer owing to the limited liabilit...

Figure 1. The growth rates of the two most dangerous odd modes at a position 100cm from the leading edge in the experiment of Swearingen and Blackwelder (1987). Figure 2. The contours of the streamwise and normal velocity components for the most dangerous odd mode 100 cm from the leading edge in the experiment of Swearingen and Blackwelder (1987). Figure 3. The various regions of the three{dime...