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Two Essays on Firm's Marketing Strategy: Auction Overlap Decision of Online Auctioneers and Product Positioning of Disadvantaged Firms
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Essay 1: Optimal Seller Strategy in Overlapping Auctions Overlapping auctions for identical products are commonly observed on auction websites. Such an on-line setting for competitive auctions changes the consumers’ bidding behaviours. Bidders are able to forward-look, cross-bid and learn during...
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Two Essays on Market Interdependencies, Price Volatility and Volatility Spillovers in the Western Canadian Feed Barley, U.S. Corn and Alberta Cattle Markets
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Over the last decade, Alberta cattle markets have experienced several extreme events, including the 2003 Canadian bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis and recent episodes of feed price surges. These events may have affected the price volatility of Alberta cattle and its interdependencies...
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Two Irons in the Fire: Synthesizing Libraries of Programs by Optimizing an Auxiliary Function while Solving Problems
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Program synthesis faces a significant challenge in exploring a vast program space to find a program that satisfies the user's intent. Prior studies have proposed using different methods to guide the synthesis process to address this challenge. We propose a method that offers search guidance which...
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Fall 2012
Cholera remains epidemic and endemic in the world, causing thousands of deaths annually in locations lacking adequate sanitation and water infrastructure. Yet its dynamics are still not fully understood. An indirectly transmitted infectious disease model, called an iSIR model, was recently...
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Fall 2011
A new mechanistic approach is applied to characterizing toughness of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in ductile fracture, introduced in double-edge-notched tensile (DENT) test. Three mechanisms were involved in the new approach, i.e. fracture surface formation, necking and shear plastic...
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Two New Species and a Revised Phylogeny of the Ellimmichthyiformes (Teleostei: Clupeomorpha)
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The Ellimmichthyiformes is an extinct order of clupeomorph fishes. This group includes fossil species from marine, estuarine, and freshwater sediments ranging in time from the Early Cretaceous to the Eocene. In spite of the long history of taxonomic studies on the Clupeomorpha, phylogenetic...