A comparative study of stickiness of tumor cells to glass surfaces was undertaken with the use of three strains of rat ascites hepatoma, All 13, All 130, and All 7974. Stickiness was measured by calculating the percentage of cells clinging to a glass surface of the calculating plate after it was washed with salt solution. A significant difference was observed in the cell stickiness among these ...

Stickiness of powder particles is often responsible for their impaired flow characteristics. Stickiness resulted from glass transition showing a relationship with mechanical -relaxations, and stickiness occurred differently in dairy solids modified in their lactose and protein contents. Glass transition, -relaxation and stickiness properties of milk solids systems were related to their solids c...

To growers, stickiness means higher costs for insect control and reduced cotton marketability. To ginners, stickiness may mean special handling and processing requirements. At the textile mill, stickiness means reduced processing efficiency, lower yarn quality, and in severe cases total shut down. For everyone concerned, stickiness means reduced profitability. Stickiness occurs when excessive s...

This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...

In [4] the notion of stickiness for stochastic processes was introduced. It was also shown that stickiness implies absence of arbitrage in a market with proportional transaction costs. In this paper, we investigate the notion of stickiness further. In particular, we give examples of processes that are not semimartingales but are sticky.

BACKGROUND Recruiting and retaining health professions remains a high priority for health system planners. Different employment sectors may vary in their appeal to providers. We used the concepts of inflow and stickiness to assess the relative attractiveness of sectors for physical therapists (PTs) in Ontario, Canada. Inflow was defined as the percentage of PTs working in a sector who were not ...

BACKGROUND Literature reports a direct relation between nurses' job satisfaction and their job retention (stickiness). The proper planning and management of the nursing labor market necessitates the understanding of job satisfaction and retention trends. The objectives of the study are to identify trends in, and the interrelation between, the job satisfaction and job stickiness of German nurses...

Intense competition among a vast number of group-buying websites leads to higher product homogeneity, which allows customers to switch to alternative websites easily and reduce their website stickiness and loyalty. This study explores the antecedents of user stickiness and loyalty and their effects on consumers’ group-buying repurchase intention. Results indicate that systems quality, informati...

Creating and maintaining a competitive and long-term sustainable e-commerce channel obligates attention to business process "stickiness, ." The contention for new Internet customers and retention of existing ones has culminated in the reuse of stickiness, a recycled marketing expression, as the mechanism for assessing and boosting customer retention. This Such a "threshold" is primarily created...