Warranty is now an integral part of each product. Since its length is directly related to the cost of production, it should be set in such a way that it would maximize revenue generation and customers’ satisfaction. Furthermore, based on the behavior of customers, it is assumed that increasing the warranty period to earn the trust of more customers leads to more sales until the market is sat...

Background: Quercetin has been reported to modulate cell proliferation and apoptosis. The present study aimed at identifying whether treatment of ionizing radiation (IR) combined with quercetin induces apoptosis in HepG2 cells. Materials and Methods: HepG2 cells were plated at an appropriate density according to each experimental scale and irradiated with 1, 5 and 10 Gy gamma-rays from a 60Co s...

This article studies a performance-based warranty for products subject to competing hard and soft failures. The two failure modes are in the sense that either one, on “whichever-comes-first” basis, can cause product fail. A not only covers repair or replacement of any defect, but also guarantees minimum performance level throughout period. In this article, we propose three compensation policies...

This specification defines a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) event package for session-specific policies. This event package enables user agents (UAs) to subscribe to session policies for a SIP session and to receive notifications if these policies change. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at in effect on the d...

Organized by three distinguished members of the JBS Editorial Board – Marc Bickle, PhD, of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany); Hakim Djaballah, PhD, of Institut Pasteur Korea (South Korea); and Lorenz Martin Mayr, PhD, of AstraZeneca (UK) – this special issue demonstrates how RNAi is enjoying a revival of popularity and is increasingly being applied to dis...

• A state must be developmental in nature if it is to enable a pace and pattern of growth which is pro-poor • Institutions matter — attempts to reform or build robust pro-growth institutions must first identify a narrow and specific set of ‘growthenhancing’ institutions, and then support them • Overt opposition to pro-poor change is less common than indifference, and the wealthy can often be pe...

In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing the costs of outsourcing warranty repairs when failed items are dynamically routed to one of several service vendors. In our model, the manufacturer incurs a repair cost each time an item needs repair and also incurs a goodwill cost while an item is awaiting and undergoing repair. For a large manufacturer with annual warranty costs in the tens...