Stated choice (SC) methods are now a widely accepted data paradigm in the study of the choice responses of agents. Their popularity has spawned an industry of applications in fields as diverse as transportation, environmental science, health economics and policy, marketing, political science and...

Engineering work is intangible and difficult to measure and manage. Engineering project tasks entail various degrees of uncertainty and equivocality (U&E). Quantifying U&E of project tasks helps understand and manage engineering work. This study developed an assessing questionnaire from five...

The design and mathematical modeling of the programing electric field in a neural switch is carried out. The specified function for the switch is to operate as a synaptic processor behaving in an adaptive manner and suitable to be used as a compact programable device with other artificial neural...

In this study, we propose a framework for understanding the key mechanisms which lead to central or peripheral processing of information. The framework draws particularly upon three different approaches and seeks to bring them together. We specify the moderating role of customers' motivation and...

We reexamine Schrödinger's reflections on the fundamental requirements for life in view of new observations about bacterial self-organization and the emerging understanding of gene-network regulation mechanisms and dynamics. Focusing on the energy, matter and thermodynamic imbalances provided...