• E-banking and consumer debt 

  Dimitrov, Stanko; Cozzarin, Brian Paul (Inderscience, 2021-01-01)

  Canadian consumers have a debt problem and averaged a nationwide debt-to-income ratio of 1.654 in 2016. Based on current research, it is unclear whether e-banking has a positive or negative impact on this ratio. This paper ...

• Pricing, greening, and transparency decisions considering the impact of government subsidies and CSR behavior in supply chain decisions 

  Khosroshahi, Hossein; Dimitrov, Stanko; Hejazi, Seyed Reza (Elsevier, 2021-05-01)

  In this paper, we analytically model different government subsidy strategies in a supply chain manufacturing and selling a green product. We model the interaction between greening degree and transparency level set by a ...

• Circular economy: Joint dynamic pricing and recycling investments 

  Schlosser, Rainer; Chenavaz, Regis Y.; Dimitrov, Stanko (Elsevier, 2021-06-01)

  In a circular economy, the use of recycled resources in production is a key performance indicator for management. Yet, academic studies are still unable to inform managers on appropriate recycling and pricing policies. We ...

• Impact of intellectual capital on small-firm growth: a longitudinal study from Inc. 5000 

  Dimitrov, Stanko; Cozzarin, Brian Paul (Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-21)

  We explore whether intellectual capital is a precursor to Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) growth. We use data from Inc. 5000 of fast-growing SMEs in the USA and match companies to patent applications. We use a zero-inflated ...

• Psychological Prices at Retail Gasoline Stations: The Policies of 0-, 5-, and 9-Ending Prices 

  Huck, Nicolas; Chenavaz, Regis Y.; Dimitrov, Stanko (Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-12)

  Psychological prices are known to impact consumer behaviour and to depend on retailers’ characteristics. Less understood is last digit pricing, especially in the context of retail gasoline stations. We study price endings ...

• An alternative derivation of orbital-free density functional theory 

  Thompson, Russell B. (AIP, 2019-05-28)

  Polymer self-consistent field theory techniques are used to derive quantum density functional theory without the use of the theorems of density functional theory. Instead, a free energy is obtained from a partition function ...

• Quantifying trailing edge flap control capability on wind turbines in a controlled environment 

  Samara, Farid; Johnson, David A. (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2021-08)

  As wind turbine diameters continue to increase, the cyclic loading experienced by the turbine blade due to wind shear and yaw misalignment increases dramatically hindering the development of larger more efficient turbines. ...

• “Transport Me Away”: Fostering Flow in Open Offices through Virtual Reality 

  Ruvimova, Anastasia; Kim, Junhyeok; Fritz, Thomas; Hancock, Mark; Shepherd, David C. (ACM, 2020-04-21)

  Open offices are cost-effective and continue to be popular. However, research shows that these environments, brimming with distractions and sensory overload, frequently hamper productivity. Our research investigates the ...

• Measuring Haptic Experience: Elaborating the HX model with scale development 

  Sathiyamurthy, Suji; Lui, Melody; Kim, Erin; Schneider, Oliver (IEEE, 2021-07-06)

  Designers increasingly employ haptic feedback with the aim to improve user experience (UX). Designers and researchers currently use qualitative methods or demos for feedback, but neither approach scales to large studies ...

• Learning to labor in high-technology: experiences of overwork in university internships at digital media firms in North America 

  Cockayne, Daniel (Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-04)

  Long working hours have become a normal and expected characteristic of employment in many sectors in the Global North. In this paper I examine subjective and affective experiences of overwork that define students’ discussions ...

• It Is Not Just A Pandemic: How The COVID-19 Mega-Crisis Affects Grief 

  Pashang, Sep (Concurrent Disorders Society Inc, 2020-11-03)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated all aspects of society. Globally, the coronavirus disease has infected and killed millions of people, resulting in a lockdown that disrupted all major financial markets and economies, ...

• Social Anxiety and the Generation of Positivity During Dyadic Interaction: Curiosity and Authenticity are the Keys to Success 

  Barber, Kevin C.; Michaelis, Maggie A.M.; Moscovitch, David A. (Elsevier, 2021-03-31)

  What drives positive affective and interpersonal experiences during social interaction? Undergraduates with high (n = 63) or low (n = 56) trait social anxiety (SA) were paired with unfamiliar low SA partners in a 45-minute ...

• On the Number of Trials Needed to Obtain k Consecutive Successes 

  Drekic, Steve; Spivey, Michael Z. (Elsevier, 2021-04-30)

  A sequence of independent Bernoulli trials, each of which is a success with probability p, is conducted. For k ∈ Z+, let Xk be the number of trials required to obtain k consecutive successes. Using techniques from elementary ...

• Provocations from #vanlife: Investigating Life and Work in a Community Extensively Using Technology Not Designed for Them 

  Rizvi, Ali Haider; Morayko, Kateryna; Song, Arden; Hancock, Mark (ACM, 2021-05)

  Research on how lived experiences with technology intersect with home and work are core themes within HCI. Prior work has primarily focused on conventional life and work in Western countries. However, the unconventional ...

• Rescuing Historical Climate Observations to Support Hydrological Research: A Case Study of Solar Radiation Data 

  Odunayo, Ogundepo; Sookoo, Naveela; Bathla, Gautam; Cavallin, Anthony; Persaud, Bhaleka; Szigeti, Kathy; Van Cappellen, Philippe; Lin, Jimmy (ACM, 2021-08-16)

  The acceleration of climate change and its impact highlight the need for long-term reliable climate data at high spatiotemporal resolution to answer key science questions in cold regions hydrology. Prior to the digital ...

• You’re Making Me Sick: A Systematic Review of How Virtual Reality Research Considers Gender & Cybersickness 

  MacArthur, Cayley; Grinberg, Arielle; Harley, Daniel; Hancock, Mark (ACM, 2021-05-06)

  While multiple studies suggest that female-identified participants are more likely to experience cybersickness in virtual reality (VR), our systematic review of 71 eligible VR publications (59 studies and 12 surveys) ...

• A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Metamotivational Knowledge of Construal Level in the United States and Japan 

  Nguyen, Tina; Togawa, Taku; Scholer, Abigail A.; Fujita, Kentaro (American Psychological Association, 2020)

  Metamotivation refers to the beliefs and mechanisms by which people regulate their motivational states to achieve desired ends. Recent metamotivation research demonstrates that Westerners recognize the benefits of engaging ...

• Exploring the complexities of value creation: The role of engagement strength 

  Scholer, Abigail A.; Higgins, E. Tory (John Wiley & Sons, 2009-03-25)

  Regulatory engagement theory (Higgins, 2006; Higgins & Scholer, 2009) proposes that engagement strength plays a critical role in the creation of value intensity. We discuss the ways in which engagement, in this model, can ...

• Metamotivation: Emerging Research on the regulation of motivational states 

  Miele, David B.; Scholer, Abigail A.; Fujita, Kentaro (Elsevier, 2020)

  Until recently, research examining the self-regulation of motivation focused primarily on the strategies people use to bolster the amount of motivation they have for pursuing a task goal. In contrast, our metamotivational ...

• How I wasted too long finding a concentration inequality for sums of geometric variables 

  Brown, Daniel G. (2011)

  I wanted a concentration inequality for sums of iid geometric random variables. This took way too long.

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