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Dynamic Pricing for Subscription Services
(2013-07-09)
This paper investigates the use of pricing schemes in subscription services that consist of various combinations of activation, subscription, and cancellation fees as applied in certain industries. It is assumed that ...
Sharpest Knives in the Drawer: Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State
(2013-07-09)
The infusion of the petroleum industry into the social and cultural imaginary goes deep in Alberta, where the oil economy and provincial governments have together shaped discourses of prosperity, identity and citizenship ...
Factors Mediating Female Viewers’ Processing of Realistic or Unrealistic Female Beauty Appeals in Movies and Affecting their Body Esteem: A Mixed Method Study
(2012-11-15)
This study examined female movie female viewers’ attention to onscreen relational information and their response to feminine beauty appeals that may explain why they experienced different body esteem outcomes. Body esteem ...
It's not only what we say but what we do”: Researching the rationales for the establishment of pay in five mixed sex, democratic worker cooperatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(2013-03-07)
As I explored in my previous SSHRC* funded research in 2006, worker cooperatives are based on the ideals of democratic participation and of egalitarianism: in general assemblies all the workers vote on the general principles ...
Who Should you write for? - Competing Literary Systems in Colonial Papua and New Guinea
(2013-03-07)
Post-war literary decolonization in the British Empire often pitted ideologies and scarce resources against one another in unanticipated ways. In any given colony there could, and often did, exist a rich mix of individual ...
Matroreform: Evolving to a “New” Motherhood”
(2014-01-16)
“New” motherhood is initiated through everyday maternal practices and evolves motherhood at its most fundamental level. In a process called matroreform, women unwittingly and/or intentionally choose what they do and do not ...
Be Like Winifred: Transferring Images of Colonial Africa to the South Pacific
(2014-01-16)
European colonial history is filled with examples of attempts to transfer cultural values, attitudes and beliefs from the metropolis to the colonies. European publishers at first sent textbooks to the colonies without ...
An Analysis of Client Realism, Virtue Ethics and Comprehensive Justice
(2014-01-16)
In this paper I assert that at the foundations of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Comprehensive Justice Movement (Comprehensive Law Movement / Non-Adversarial Justice) lies in the interplay between client realism and the ...
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(2014-01-16)
Chair the Section on Women and Psychology (SWAP) annual business meeting, organize and attend the (SWAP) Executive dinner, organize and Chair the (SWAP) Executive Business breakfast meeting at the 74th Annual Convention ...
Working Anytime Anywhere: Mobile Knowledge Workers
(2014-01-16)
Recent advances in mobile technologies and the popular use of mobile devices in our daily lives suggest that knowledge worker can now work from anywhere at any time, or while on the move. Is this true? Research suggests ...