Decisions with Impact on Energy Reduction Opportunities : Swedish manufacturers and buyers of new single-family houses

This article discusses some of the complexities of human decision-making. It aims, in particular, at relating the nature of decision-making to the illusory dichotomies of change and stability, individual actions and cultural sharing. Serving as an illustration to the discussion of the article is ongoing fieldwork in contexts of buying, selling and constructing pre-fabricated detached houses in the central Sweden, and the very specific question of how decisions to install one kind of heating-system rather than another come about. A common reductionism is to narrow down the understanding of decisions about heating systems and energy consumption to conscious choices made by individual householders. I have asked myself whether, on the contrary, anyone actually makes such decisions at all. Perhaps some of these decisions are merely outcomes of interaction between different individuals with their respective responsibilities and focuses of interest.

Neither bipolar nor obsessive-compulsive disorder: compulsive buyers are impulsive acquirers

Introduction: Compulsive buying (CB) is currently classified as an impulse control disorder (ICD) not otherwise classified. Compulsive buying prevalence is estimated at around 5% of the general population. There is controversy about whether CB should be classified as an ICD, a subsyndromal bipolar disorder (BD), or an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) akin to a hoarding syndrome. To further investigate the appropriate classification of CB, we compared patients with CB, BD, and OCD for impulsivity, affective instability, hoarding, and other OCD symptoms. Method: Eighty outpatients (24 CB, 21 BD, and 35 OCD) who were neither manic nor hypomanic were asked to fill out self-report questionnaires. Results: Compulsive buying patients scored significantly higher on all impulsivity measures and on acquisition but not on the hoarding subdimensions of clutter and "difficulty discarding." Patients with BD scored higher on the mania dimension from the Structured Clinical Interview for Mood Spectrum scale. Patients with OCD scored higher on obsessive-compulsive symptoms and, particularly, higher on the contamination/washing and checking dimensions from the Padua Inventory; however, they did not score higher on any hoarding dimension. A discriminant model built with these variables correctly classified patients with CB (79%), BD (71%), and OCD (77%). Conclusion: Patients with CB came out as impulsive acquirers, resembling ICD- rather than BD- or OCD-related disorders. Manic symptoms were distinctive of patients with BD. Hoarding symptoms other than acquisition were not particularly associated with any diagnostic group. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Herramienta de reparto eficiente de reuniones buyers-suppliers por turnos

Este proyecto se plantea, desde su misma base, como uno de desarrollo e Ingeniería del Software por una parte; con cierto componente de algorítmica. Debido a que intervienen varias partes (cliente, alumno y tutor) y a que no se tenía una visión completa del resultado final del programa al que se quería llegar, se ha optado por una metodología ágil adaptativa para responder a los cambios y a la suma de nuevos requisitos; como se irá explicando en esta memoria. Con el presente documento se trata de tener un referente general de las fases, factores e inconvenientes que han intervenido en la realización del proyecto. Aunque podría haberse reflejado como una memoria de desarrollo de software, se ha optado por un punto de vista con mayor distanciamiento, una aproximación más general. Con este texto, la intención inicial es formular de forma clara lo que se necesita y a que requisitos tiene que adecuarse el software desde un punto de vista del usuario, para acto seguido, pormenorizar el diseño y el desarrollo en diferentes puntos sucesivos que recojan la historia y cambios en el proyecto de forma organizada. Es, por tanto, una referencia de ingeniería de un desarrollo software, que abarca desde la concepción del proyecto, pasando por los fundamentos teóricos, diseño, implementación hasta las pruebas finales de validación. E incluso más allá, ya que, como se explica en capítulos posteriores, en cierto punto se tuvo la necesidad de reescribir gran parte del código.

Building bridges… and properties aplenty: cultural problems in Spanish real estate marketing for prospective British buyers

N.B. reproduced with permission of Peter Lang Verlag. For citation, please, use the original reference, that is Campos Pardillos, M.A. and Balteiro Fernández, I. 2009. “Building bridges… and properties aplenty: cultural problems in Spanish real estate marketing for prospective British buyers”. In: Guillén-Nieto, V., C. Marimón-Llorca and C. Vargas-Sierra. Eds. Intercultural Business Communication and Simulation and Gaming Methodology. Bern: Peter Lang. Pp. 155-174.

Reciprocal rights of capital, labor, buyers & the state,

Mode of access: Internet.

Who's who in commercial art and photography; a guide to artists, photographers, agents, studios, representatives and buyers of art in the graphics field.

Mode of access: Internet.

The plant buyers index : over twenty thousand varieties and from what American sources they may be obtained /

Mode of access: Internet.

Building a home buyers' educational program /

"Based upon work supported by the Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under special project number 92-EXCA-2-0219"--T.p. verso.

Illinois agricultural buyers guide.

Title from cover.

The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge : including the dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya.

Printer's device (anchor & dolphin) on each t.p.

The Educational redbook : a buyers guide for school superintendents, secretaries and members of Boards of Education.

Description based on: 1922.

Potato preferences among restaurant and hotel buyers /

Cover title.

Buyers and sellers in the cotton trade, being a handbook for merchants, shippers, manufacturers, and others who are interested as producers or distributors.

Mode of access: Internet.