Preferential treatment is a prevalent relationship marketing practice of companies treating some customers better than others. Using two studies, the authors explore the practice of preferential treatment and show that preferential treatment influences both consumers who receive it and those who...

Previous research has shown that if consumers are aware that they are paying more than another customer for a similar transaction, then they may perceive the price to be unfair. A concept closely related to fairness is transaction value, defined as consumers' perceptions of the psychological...

The size effect of the dielectric properties and the barrier height was investigated in the ferroelectric solid solution Ba<Subscript> x </Subscript>Sr<Subscript>1−x </Subscript>TiO<Subscript>3</Subscript> system. The decrease of the grain size causes the suppression of the ferroelectricity, and the increase of the relaxation frequency. Barrier heights increase...</subscript></subscript></subscript>

In this study, FeNi<Subscript>3</Subscript>/Al<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>3</Subs cript> core-shell nanocomposites, where individual FeNi<Subscript>3</Subscript> nanoparticles were coated with a thin layer of alumina, were fabricated by a modified sol-gel method. Several physical characterizations were performed on the samples of FeNi<Subscript>3</Subscript>/Al<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>3</Subs cript> nanocomposites with different...<//subs></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript><//subs></subscript></subscript></subscript>

We have demonstrated a simple and universal morphology-controlled growth of 2D ordered Fe/SiO<Subscript>2</Subscript> magnetic nanodots array, which was based on 2D colloidal monolayer template composed of polystyrene (PS) spheres and one-step sol-gel spin-coating technique. The Fe/SiO<Subscript>2</Subscript> nanodots have a well-ordered...</subscript></subscript>

Built on a data set of 527 air conditioner models collected from an online retailer, this study investigates whether the savings that consumers realize on their private electricity bills from purchasing energy-efficient appliances compensate for the additional cost of the appliances on the...

In this paper, we reported on the X-ray photoemission electron microscope (XPEEM) determination of magnetic and luminescence origins for two CoxZn1-xO films. The cobalt fraction x of radio frequency co-sputtered samples were 0.86(2) and 0.92(2), respectively. Films were ferromagnetic and...