Clickstream data provides information about the sequence of pages viewed by a visitor as they move through a web site. A valuable facet of this data is the navigation or web path the user has chosen to traverse the web site. This path reflects a user’s goals, which we use to predict a user’s potential to purchase. One application of path analysis is to predict which users are likely to make a p...

This article examines the narratives of men who purchase sex from street-level providers in a mid-sized city in Western Canada. We explore what men’s stories tell us about how masculinity is constructed in relation to street sex work. These men narrated their purchase of sex as attempts to exercise or lay claim to male power, privilege, and authority; at the same time, research reveals how tenu...

sustainable purchasing and consuming clothes is a massive trend worldwide due to the great amount of production, its complications and also the active role of women; and is specifically so among young population of iran, though the country is moving towards sustainable development. this article aims to investigate the degree of awareness of the notion of sustainability and its impact on the pur...

abstract main objective of this paper is to evaluate supportive policies of beef producers during the first, second, third and fourth terms of economic, social, and cultural development plans (1989 - 2008).to evaluate the policies, the producers support estimate(pse) index and other indicators (pse %, npc & nac) were used. furthermore, percentages of pse were calculated in different scenarios o...

Supplier reliability is a critical issue for manufacturing companies. Delivery delays from suppliers create backlog and firefighting on the shop floors. To avoid disruption hedge against supplier lead time uncertainty, companies rely diversification, multi-sourcing, safety times. In buyer might order same product (raw material) different suppliers. The design of robust cost-efficient purchasing...

An important approach to reduce youth tobacco use is the adoption of regulations to prohibit tobacco product sale to individuals younger than 21 years, termed Tobacco 21. In the United States, close to 90% of current smokers started smoking before the age of 18 years, and 99% before age 26 years. Earlier age of tobacco use initiation is associated with lower rates of smoking cessation. Increasi...

Click stream data provides information about the sequence of pages viewed by a visitor as they move through a web site. A valuable facet of this data is the navigation or web path the user has chosen to traverse the web site. This path reflects a user's goals, which we use to predict a user's potential to purchase. One application of path analysis is to predict which users are likely to make a ...