During the past couple of decades, brand equity has emerged as one of the key concepts in marketing.Literature concerned with consumer brand relationship is calling for more studies in order to increase understanding of brand equity dimensions.Therefore, this study aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge by examining the strength of re
The paper presents the results of an exploratory approach aimed at extending the ranking procedures normally used in studying the socioeconomics determinants of smart growth at the regional level.Most of these studies adopt a methodological procedure which essentially consists of the following steps: a) identification of the pertinent elementary in
The article is part of the special issue of the journal on Charles P.Kindleberger (CPK).By reviewing CPK’s works the authors investigates here the analytical content of Kindleberger’s historical contributions.In particular, Kindleberger’s reformulation and development of Engel’s law is analyzed, with attention to its consequences for the th
We study the null controllability problem for hellfire sloe gin linear degenerate parabolic systems with one control force through Carleman estimates for the associated adjoint problem.The novelty of this article is that for the first time it is considered a problem with an interior degeneracy and a control set that only requires to contain an inte
Abstract Background Among other causes the long-term result of hip prostheses in dogs is determined by aseptic loosening.A prevention of prosthesis complications can be achieved by an optimization of the tribological system which finally results in improved implant duration.In this context a computerized model for the calculation of hip joint loadi