The Influence of Power Prestige, Anxiety, Distrust and Credit Card USAge on Compulsive Buying

Consumer behavior has been a topic of interest for many academics in the past few years, and one of the many subjects from consumer behavior is compulsive buying. Compulsive buying has known as an abnormal form of consumer behavior, regarded as the dark side of consumption. The purpose of this study is to analysis the influence of power prestige, anxiety, distrust, and credit card USAge on compulsive buying of college student. The population observed was IBA students who use credit card with sample as many as 100 respondents. This research used quantitative analyze by using questionnaires and used multiple regression analysis. Result showed that power prestige, anxiety, distrust, and credit card USAge influence compulsive buying simultaneously but not partially because distrust variable has no significant influences to compulsive buying. However, measuring money attitudes gives a clearer picture of how students perceive money and how money makes them feel towards themselves and towards various products or services. Therefore, further studies should widen the variable of money attitude that can potentially influence compulsive buying. A factor which captures obsession with money would be an improvement. It is captured by the power prestige dimension, but could be made explicit as a separate factor

Solution of Abel's integral equation using Tikhonov regularization

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Summary of personal neutron dosemeter results obtained within the EVIDOS project

Within the EC project EVIDOS (‘Evaluation of Individual Dosimetry in Mixed Neutron and Photon Radiation Fields'), different types of active neutron personal dosemeters (and some passive ones) were tested in workplace fields at nuclear installations in Europe. The results of the measurements which have been performed up to now are summarised and compared to our currently best estimates of the personal dose equivalent Hp(10). Under- and over-readings by more than a factor of two for the same dosemeter in different workplace fields indicate that in most cases the use of field-specific correction factors is require

Application of workplace correction factors to dosemeter results for the assessment of personal doses at nuclear facilities

Ratios of Hp(10) and H*(10) were determined with reference instruments in a number of workplace fields within the nuclear industry and used to derive workplace-specific correction factors. When commercial survey meter results together with these factors were applied to the results of the locally used personal dosemeters their results improved and became within 0.7 and 1.7 of the reference values or better depending on the response of the survey meter. A similar result was obtained when a correction was determined with a prototype reference instrument for Hp(10) after adjustment of its response. Commercially available survey instruments both for photon and neutron H*(10) measurements agreed with the reference instruments in most cases to within 0.5-1.5. Those conclusions are derived from results reported within the EC supported EVIDOS contrac

Transparent p-type conducting CuScO₂₊ₓ films

Transparent films of CuScO₂₊ₓ have been prepared which show p-type electrical conductivity. The temperature dependence of the conductivity indicates semiconducting behavior with an apparent room temperature activation energy of 0.11 eV. The highest room temperature conductivity observed was 30 S cm⁻1. Films 110 nm thick show 40% transparency in most of the visible spectrum and become much more transparent in the infrared spectrum. The p-type behavior was confirmed by the Seebeck effect