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Data visualization aids have become popular tools to assist managerial decision making in marketing. For example, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are often used to identify suitable retail locations, regional distributions for advertising campaigns, or targeting of direct marketing activities. GIS-based visualizations facilitate the assessment of store locations and help...

New restaurants often do not manage to succeed within a reasonable amount of time. Exotic restaurants especially face the problem that price promotions may not attract new customers because prospective customers might associate very low prices for unfamiliar food with a high
functional risk. This paper describes how Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW), a new pricing mechanism, was...

Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (CASL) offers the possibility to quantitatively measure the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). We demonstrate, for the first time, the feasibility of interleaving Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with CASL at 3 T. Two different repetitive TMS (rTMS) protocols were applied to the motor cortex in 10 subjects and the effect on rCBF was measured...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that alters cortical excitability and activity in a polarity-dependent way. Stimulation for few minutes has been shown to induce plastic alterations of cortical excitability and to improve cognitive performance. These effects might be caused by stimulation-induced alterations of functional...

Recent literature makes a distinction between ‘voluntary’ and ‘involuntary’ early retirement, where ‘involuntary’ early retirement results from employment constraints rather than from a preference for leisure relative to work. This article analyses ‘voluntary’ and ‘involuntary’ early retirement based on international microdata covering 19 industrialized countries. The results show...

Since Charles Tilly’s path-breaking work on the emergence of the modern pro- test politics during the historical transformation from an old to a new repertoire of contention (Tilly 1984, 1986 and 1995), social movements have been conceptualised as being inherently national or sub-national phenomena. Now, things seem to have changed. Over the past few years, transnational contention...

We are all inclined to think today that processes of globalization have a strong impact on national political structures and processes. Most commonly, we refer to a gradual transnationalization of economic, political and cultural reality at the national and local level that poses a challenge to national political institutions and public policies, political contentions and national...

La question des conséquences des mouvements sociaux est un sujet essentiel, qui est cependant longtemps resté peu étudié en raison des nombreuses difficultés qu’elle soulève [Amenta, Caren, 2004 ; Earl, 2000 ; Giugni, 1998, 2008 ; Kowalewski et al., 1981 ; Rucht, 1992]. La complexité des configurations sociales et politiques, par nature multi- factorielles, rend en effet...