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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco, Mirco Musolesi, Jason O'Sullivan, Rosie Prior, Ioanna Manolopoulou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Previous studies have shown that assortative mating acts as a driver of speciation by countering hybridization between two populations of the same species (pre-zygotic isolation) or through mate choice among the hybrids (hybrid speciation).
Miguel Morgado-Santos, Henrique Miguel Pereira, Luís Vicente, Maria João Collares-Pereira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
wiley   +1 more source

Educational constraints on marital sorting and income mobility.

PLoS ONE
This paper examines the effect of educational assortative mating on overall income mobility in terms of both inter- and intragenerational mobility. In recent years, educational assortative mating has become a trend in China, and this marital sorting ...
Nan Gao
doaj   +1 more source

Assortative mating between European corn borer pheromone races: beyond assortative meeting. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2007
BACKGROUND: Sex pheromone communication systems may be a major force driving moth speciation by causing behavioral reproductive isolation via assortative meeting of conspecific individuals. The 'E' and 'Z' pheromone races of the European corn borer (ECB)
Laurent Pélozuelo, Serge Meusnier, Philippe Audiot, Denis Bourguet, Sergine Ponsard   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence of Assortative Mating in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Biological Psychiatry, 2019
BACKGROUND Assortative mating is a nonrandom mating system in which individuals with similar genotypes and/or phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected in a random mating system.
Siobhan M Connolly, R. Anney, L. Gallagher, Elizabeth A. Heron   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula, R. Prasantha Kumar, Luc Meunier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Structure and Personality Assortment Among Married Couples [PDF]

, 2006
We study the influence of social structure on assortative mating for personality in a large national sample (n=3616) of married and cohabitating couples in the Netherlands.
Aken, Marcel A.G. van, Bekkers, René, Denissen, Jaap   +2 more
core   +1 more source

20 questions on Adaptive Dynamics [PDF]

, 2005
Adaptive Dynamics is an approach to studying evolutionary change when fitness is density or frequency dependent. Modern papers identifying themselves as using this approach first appeared in the 1990s, and have greatly increased up to the present ...
Abrams, Abrams, Abrams, Altenberg, Arnold, Asmussen, Asmussen, Avise, Barton, Bolnick, Bulmer, Bulmer, Bürger, Bürger, Caisse, Christiansen, Christiansen, Cockerham, Crosby, Crow, Crow, D. WAXMAN, Dickinson, Dieckmann, Dieckmann, Diehl, Doebeli, Dooren, Dooren, Doorn, Doorn, Endler, Eshel, Eshel, Fear, Felsenstein, Fisher, Gavrilets, Gavrilets, Gavrilets, Gavrilets, Geritz, Geritz, Geritz, Ginzburg, Haldane, Hofbauer, Kimura, Kingman, Kisdi, Kostitzin, Lande, Lewontin, Ludwig, Marks, Matessi, Matessi, Matsuda, Maynard Smith, Metz, Metz, Mizera, Moore, Moore, Mylius, Nowak, Orr, Orr, Provine, Provine, Reed, Rice, Roughgarden, Roughgarden, S. GAVRILETS, Schaffer, Slatkin, Slatkin, Slatkin, Spencer, Spencer, Taylor, Tienderen, Turelli, Udovic, Vincent, Waxman, Welch, Wilson, Wright, Wright, Zeng   +91 more
core   +2 more sources

The Impact of Self‐Checkout Technology on Shopping Behavior in B2B Retail: Evidence From Point‐Of‐Sale Transaction Data

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of self‐checkout technology implementation on B2B customer shopping behavior using a novel methodological approach that combines propensity score matching with difference‐in‐differences analysis on actual point‐of‐sale transaction data.
Jindřich Špička, Michaela Dvořáková   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source