339 research outputs found
Effects of word-of-mouth versus traditional marketing: findings from an internet social networking site
The authors study the effect of word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing on member growth at an Internet social networking site and compare it with traditional marketing vehicles. Because social network sites record the electronic invitations from existing members, outbound WOM can be precisely tracked. Along with traditional marketing, WOM can then be linked to the number of new members subsequently joining the site (sign-ups). Because of the endogeneity among WOM, new sign-ups, and traditional marketing activity, the authors employ a vector autoregression (VAR) modeling approach. Estimates from the VAR model show that WOM referrals have substantially longer carryover effects than traditional marketing actions and produce substantially higher response elasticises. Based on revenue from advertising impressions served to a new member, the monetary value of a WOM referral can be calculated; this yields an upper-bound estimate for the financial incentives the firm might offer to stimulate WOM.pre-prin
Nucleon matrix elements and baryon masses in the Dirac orbital model
Using the expansion of the baryon wave function in a series of products of
single quark bispinors (Dirac orbitals), the nonsinglet axial and tensor
charges of a nucleon are calculated. The leading term yields in
good agreement with experiment. Calculation is essentially parameter-free and
depends only on the strong coupling constant value . The importance
of lower Dirac bispinor component, yielding 18% to the wave function
normalization is stressed. As a check, the baryon decuplet masses in the
formalism of this model are also computed using standard values of the string
tension and the strange quark mass ; the results being in a good
agreement with experiment.Comment: 8 pages, 2 tables; LaTeX2
Quasi-fixed point scenario in the modified NMSSM
The simplest extension of the MSSM that does not contradict LEP II
experimental bound on the lightest Higgs boson mass at is the
modified Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MNSSM). We investigate
the renormalization of Yukawa couplings and soft SUSY breaking terms in this
model. The possibility of -quark and -lepton Yukawa coupling
unification at the Grand Unification scale is studied. The particle
spectrum is analysed in the vicinity of the quasi-fixed point where the
solutions of renormalization group equations are concentrated at the
electroweak scale.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX2
Charm and bottom baryons in nonperturbative quark dynamics
We use the Field Correlator Method in QCD to calculate the masses of
, and recently observed , baryons and their
orbital excitations.Comment: Contributed talk at the session of Russian Academy of Sciences
"Physics of Fundamental Interactions", ITEP, Moscow, November 26-30, 200
and coupling constants in QCD sum rules
The coupling constants and
are calculated in the framework of
three-point QCD sum rules. The correlation functions responsible for these
coupling constants are evaluated considering contributions of both and
mesons as off-shell states, but in the absence of radiative
corrections. The results, and are
obtained for the considered strong coupling constants.Comment: 13 Pages and 11 Figure
Kaon pair production in proton-nucleus collisions at 2.83 GeV kinetic energy
The production of non-phi K+K- pairs by protons of 2.83 GeV kinetic energy on
C, Cu, Ag, and Au targets has been investigated using the COSY-ANKE magnetic
spectrometer. The K- momentum dependence of the differential cross section has
been measured at small angles over the 0.2--0.9 GeV/c range. The comparison of
the data with detailed model calculations indicates an attractive K- -nucleus
potential of about -60 MeV at normal nuclear matter density at a mean momentum
of 0.5 GeV/c. However, this approach has difficulty in reproducing the
smallness of the observed cross sections at low K- momenta.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
Higgs bosons in the simplest SUSY models
Nowadays in the MSSM the moderate values of are almost excluded
by LEP II lower bound on the lightest Higgs boson mass. In the Next-to-Minimal
Supersymmetric Standard Model the theoretical upper bound on it increases and
reaches maximal value in the strong Yukawa coupling limit when all solutions of
renormalization group equations are concentrated near the quasi-fixed point.
For calculation of Higgs boson spectrum the perturbation theory method can be
applied. We investigate the particle spectrum in the framework of the modified
NMSSM which leads to the self-consistent solution in the strong Yukawa coupling
limit. This model allows one to get GeV at values of
. In the investigated model the lightest Higgs boson mass
does not exceed GeV. The upper bound on the lightest CP-even
Higgs boson mass in more complicated supersymmetric models is also discussed.Comment: 27 pages, 5 figures included, LaTeX 2e. Plenary talk at the
Conference of RAS Nuclear Physics Department 2000 in ITEP, Moscow, Russia; to
appear in Phys. Atom. Nuc
Studying Paths of Participation in Viral Diffusion Process
Authors propose a conceptual model of participation in viral diffusion
process composed of four stages: awareness, infection, engagement and action.
To verify the model it has been applied and studied in the virtual social chat
environment settings. The study investigates the behavioral paths of actions
that reflect the stages of participation in the diffusion and presents
shortcuts, that lead to the final action, i.e. the attendance in a virtual
event. The results show that the participation in each stage of the process
increases the probability of reaching the final action. Nevertheless, the
majority of users involved in the virtual event did not go through each stage
of the process but followed the shortcuts. That suggests that the viral
diffusion process is not necessarily a linear sequence of human actions but
rather a dynamic system.Comment: In proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social
Informatics, SocInfo 201
Infrared quasi-fixed solutions in the NMSSM
The considerable part of the parameter space in the MSSM corresponding to the
infrared quasi fixed point scenario is almost excluded by LEP II bounds on the
lightest Higgs boson mass. In the NMSSM the mass of the lightest Higgs boson
reaches its maximum value in the strong Yukawa coupling limit when Yukawa
couplings are essentially larger than gauge ones at the Grand Unification
scale. In this limit the solutions of the renormalisation group equations are
attracted to the infrared and Hill type effective fixed lines or surfaces in
the Yukawa coupling parameter space. They are concentrated in the vicinity of
quasi fixed points for . However the solutions are attracted
to such points rather weakly. For this reason when all the
solutions of the renormalisation group equations are gathered near a line in
the Hill type effective surface. In the paper the approximate solutions for the
NMSSM Yukawa couplings are given. The possibility of --quark and
--lepton Yukawa coupling unification at the scale is also
discussed.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figures included, LaTeX 2
History of exotic Meson (4-quark) and Baryon (5-quark) States
I briefly review the history of exotic meson (4-quark) and baryon (5-quark)
states, which is rooted in the formalism of Regge pole and duality. There are
robust model-independent predictions for the exchange of 4-quark (Baryonium)
Regge trajectories in several processes, which are strongly supported by
experiment. On the other hand the predictions for the spectroscopy of 4-quark
resonances are based on specific QCD inspired models, with some experimental
support. The corresponding predictions for the recently discovered exotic
baryon (Pentaquark) state are briefly discussed.Comment: 14 pages Latex including 4 eps figures, final version to appear as a
topical review in J. Phys.
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