The paper reports on the results of a five-month project utilizing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) along a fashion retailing supply chain. The supply chain included the fashion manufacturer Gerry Weber and department store retailer Kaufhof. The project identified numerous issues that should be addressed in a successful implementation of RFID including the technical choices and design of t...

Due to requirements of renewable and distributed energy integration,sustainability and energy security, the existing power grid is undergoing radical changes.The lines between producers and consumers are becoming blurred. In this paper, we provide a constrained formulation of the power allocation problem, which is emerging in such producer-consumer hybrid environments, and obtain decentralized ...

We apply network analysis to study bipartite consumerservice graph that represents service transaction to understand consumer demand. Based on real-world computer log files of a library, we found that consumer graph projected from bipartite graph deviates significantly from theoretical predictions based on random bipartite graph. We observed smaller-than-expected average degree, larger-than-exp...

BACKGROUND Public agencies, health care plans, providers, and consumer organizations share the need to monitor the health care needs and quality of care for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Doing so requires a definition of CSHCN and a precise methodology for operationalizing that definition. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to develop an efficient and flexibl...

The networking solution to superpages is defined not only by the exploration of journaling file systems, but also by the robust need for Scheme. In fact, few experts would disagree with the evaluation of reinforcement learning. In our research we introduce a cacheable tool for evaluating active networks (LeerGait), which we use to disconfirm that IPv4 and the producer-consumer problem can inter...

Many innovative products can only fully deploy their value if they rely on consumers’ personal information. This issue challenges the confidence consumers have in new innovations, and revolutionizes marketing practices. Malhotra, Kim, and Agarwal’s (2004) framework provides the theoretical basis for hypotheses on the consequences of privacy concerns. An empirical study in the context of four pe...

Since 1993, the conduct of monetary policy in Australia has been based on an inflation target. Under this framework, the aim of policy is for underlying inflation to average 2 to 3 per cent per annum in the medium term. Underlying inflation can be measured in a number of ways but each of these measures shows that the target has been achieved so far in the 1990s (see Table 1). The concept of und...

by Audra T. Wenzlow, John Mullahy, Stephanie A. Robert, and Barbara L. Wolfe We explore the relationship between health and wealth and between health and income using the Survey of Consumer Finances. We focus on the working-age population, describing the shape of the health-income and health-wealth gradients for individuals between ages 25 and 54. We find that the health-wealth relationship is ...

The recent rapid growth of the Internet as a medium of communication and commerce, combined with the development of sophisticated software tools, are to a large extent responsible for producing a new kind of information: databases with detailed records about consumers’ preferences. These databases have become part of a Þrm’s assets, and as such they can be sold to competitors. This possibility ...