Missouri State University

Pet-owner synchrony: Operationalization, application, and implications

Abstract Despite the pet industry’s significant economic and social importance, academic attention to this sector of the economy has been limited. Rather than focusing solely on the household demographics of pet ownership or the attitudinal components of the pet-owner relationshi...

Questions in feminist philosophy of sport: looking back to see ahead

Almost 40 years ago, Victoria Davion declared herself ‘disturbed by a common view among feminist thinkers regarding competition’, the view that competition is ‘an evil which must be eliminated’ (1987, 55). Davion’s view is worth revisiting, as she was one of the first feminists t...

AI as Market Infrastructure: How Misinformation and Automation Inequality Shape Democratic Performance and Economic Wellbeing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the market-organizing infrastructures that coordinate exchange, reshaping consumer information environments and the allocation of economic value. Drawing on marketing systems theory and consumer emancipation scholarship, we theorize pe...

Monte Carlo Quasi-Interpolation of Spherical Data

Abstract. We establish a deterministic and stochastic spherical quasi-interpolation framework featuring scaled zonal kernels derived from radial basis functions on the ambient Euclidean space. The method incorporates both quasi–Monte Carlo and Monte Carlo quadrature rules to cons...

Defect Landscapeand Stability of High-Entropy Carbides

Abstract High-entropy carbides (HECs) can be stabilized as single-phase solid-solution microstructures by kinetically trapping a “high-entropy state” under ambient conditions; however, such microstructures may represent metastable states rather than true thermodynamic equilibrium...

Towards a Communicative Theory of Organizational Consent: Two Case Studies of Consent Contracts in Body Work

This essay offers four empirically grounded claims to build a communicative theory of organizational consent (CTOC): (a) communication is the substance of organizational consent, (b) revoking organizational consent requires (re)negotiation, (c) communicating (non)consent is a pow...