Abstract: Non-cooperative subject behavior leading to fatal shooting by law enforcement officers is discussed from the perspective of self-organizing systems. To this end, non-cooperative subject behavior is understood in terms of attentional blindness and functional fixedness as predicted by a mathematical model for self-organized human behavior proposed earlier by Frank (Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 2015, 19, 111-146). Importantly, the same kind of model is applied to understand fatal shootings of non-cooperative subjects by law enforcement officers. It is argued and demonstrated by simulation studies that when the mechanism of fixedness acts both on subjects and law enforcement officers, tragic incidences of fatal shootings are likely to occur.

• Publication Date: 26-Sep-2016
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-107-8-40
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Abstract: Factors influencing consumer usage of luxury brand in the context of developing country like Bangladesh is new but it has already been applied in the developed country. Luxury brand is now available to the individuals other than the elite and rich class. The factors which influence the consumer of Bangladesh are the main concern of this paper. For accomplishing this research, convenience sampling procedure had been applied on 219 respondents. For the purpose of testing the hypothesized associations, KMO and Bartlett’s test, Coefficient, Total variance, ANOVA and finally the model has been applied to justify the conceptual framework through using SPSS. The study found that five factors (financial, functional, individual, social and cultural) including sub-factors have significant influence on usage of luxury branded products.

• Publication Date: 26-Sep-2016
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-107-8-41
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