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Incentives to Advertise and Product Differentiation
Recent court rulings question the ability of commodity groups to fund generic promotions through mandatory check-off programs. A model examining incentives to fund brand advertisements when both brand and generic advertising exist is presented.
Lynn Hunnicutt, L. Dwight Israelsen
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Car wrapping – as a method of protecting the paint coating [PDF]
Wrapping vehicles with a special foil is not only a desire to stand out, change color, advertise your company or mark a special vehicle, but also a from of protecting the paint coating against the negative influence of external factors – e.g.
Baranowski Szymon +3 more
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Background Through the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), U.S. food companies pledge to only advertise healthier products in children’s television (TV) programming, but previous research shows that highly advertised products do ...
Melissa L. Jensen +2 more
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Supported by science?: what canadian naturopaths advertise to the public
Background The increasing popularity of complementary and alternative medicines in Canada has led to regulatory reforms in Ontario and British Columbia. Yet the evidence for efficacy of these therapies is still a source of debate.
Caulfield Timothy, Rachul Christen
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Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition. [PDF]
The adaptive function of copulation calls in female primates has been debated for years. One influential idea is that copulation calls are a sexually selected trait, which enables females to advertise their receptive state to males. Male-male competition
Simon W Townsend +2 more
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Limited Use of Price and Quality Advertising Among American Hospitals
BackgroundConsumer-directed policies, including health savings accounts, have been proposed and implemented to involve individuals more directly with the cost of their health care.
Muhlestein, David B +2 more
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Counting degree-constrained subgraphs and orientations [PDF]
The goal of this short paper to advertise the method of gauge transformations (aka holographic reduction, reparametrization) that is well-known in statistical physics and computer science, but less known in combinatorics.
Borbényi, Márton, Csikvári, Péter
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Acoustic signals can encode crucial information about species identity and individual quality. We recorded and compared male courtship drum sounds of the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus and the painted goby P. pictus and examined if they can function in
Silvia S Pedroso +4 more
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Given the depth of research on negative advertising in campaigns, scholars have wondered why candidates continue to attack their opponents. We build on this research by considering real-world campaign contexts in which candidates are working in ...
Liam C Malloy, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz
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Many passerine birds lay white eggs with reddish brown speckles produced by protoporphyrin pigment. However, the function of these spots is contested. Recently, the sexually selected eggshell coloration (SSEC) hypothesis proposed that eggshell color is a
Mary Caswell Stoddard +3 more
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