In the competitive retailing environment of the 1990s, success often depends on a firm’s ability to find a unique way of appealing to a carefully selected group of target customers (those most likely, willing, and able to buy the firm’s offering) in order to gain their patronage, and ideally, their loyalty. The best way to achieve a competitive advantage is to develop a unique merchandise and/o...

A thin slit-lamp beam illuminating the pupil margin produces clearly visible pupil oscillations. These oscillations can be timed with a stopwatch, thus producing a measurement of the 'edge-light pupil cycle time'. The pupil cycle time is remarkably stable in various testing situations and is repeatable within about ±3% over extended periods of time. Expected normal distribution and 95 % confide...

This paper examines the consequences of using “real-time” data for business cycle analysis in Germany based on a novel data set covering quarterly real output data from 1968 to 2001. Real-time output gaps are calculated. They differ considerably from their counterparts based on the most recent data. Moreover, they are not rational forecasts of the final series. The consequences of using real-ti...

In a complex manufacturing environment, such as a semiconductor wafer fab, small variations of system operating factors, implemented at any production step, may have a significant impact on the overall fab performance. Cycle time (CT) reductions obtained at critical tools could generate considerable productivity improvements which eventually lead to a capacity increase at no investment cost. In...

Some of the major enhancements are eliminating head contention, reducing or eliminating nozzle changes, supporting user-defined nozzles, supporting large nozzles for holders 2 and 3, and being able to define multiple part data for a given part number. The cycle time improvement exceeds the original goal of 5%, and the result at one surface mount center was more than 16% over hand-created and op...

In a resource sharing system, resources are shared among multiple interconnected peers. Peers act as both suppliers and customers of resources by making a certain amount of their resource directly available to others. In this paper we focus on a proportional sharing mechanism, which is fair, efficient and guarantees a market equilibrium in the resource sharing system. We study the incentives an...

Detection of forest disturbance and recovery has received much attention during the last two decades due to its important influence on forest carbon budget estimation. This research used Landsat time-series data from 1984 to 2015 to examine forest disturbance and recovery in a subtropical region of eastern Zhejiang Province, China, through the LandTrendr algorithm. Field inventory data and high...