Since innovation plays an important role in the context of food, as evident in how successful chefs, restaurants or cuisines in general evolve over time, we were interested in exploring this dimension from a more virtual perspective. In particular, the paper presents results of a study that was conducted in the context of a large-scale German online food community forum to explore another impor...

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ABSTRACT Third-party funding is a recent yet rapidly growing phenomenon in investment arbitration. While it enables investors lacking funds to pursue remedies against States, exposes States greater risk of inability recover arbitration costs. Against this background, article examines the legal principles on security for costs and, contrary view several tribunals and commentators, argues that ca...

Screening for monoclonal gammopathies is usually done by serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP) and serum free light chain tests. SPEP may be followed by immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE). IFE may be ordered by the treating physician or be at the discretion of the pathologist. We examined the appropriateness of IFE ordering by treating physicians and report on our findings, follow-up changes t...

Changes in wholesale supply operations at the Veterans Administration could reduce net ordering and carrying costs, inventory investment, and warehouse space. The primat-y vehicle for achieving these reductions is the economic order quantity principle--a mathematical method for determining the purchase quantity that will result in the lowest total cost to order and carry inventory. Additional r...

many ranking methods have been proposed so far. however, there is yet no method that can always give a satisfactory solution to every situation; some are counterintuitive, not discriminating; some use only the local information of fuzzy values; some produce different ranking for the same situation. for overcoming the above problems, we propose a new method for ranking fuzzy quantities based on ...

Article history: Received 1 July 2008 Received in revised form 17 October 2008 Accepted 2 November 2008 Available online 6 November 2008

In this study a hybrid (including qualitative and quantitative objectives) fuzzy multi objective nonlinear programming (H-FMONLP) model with different goal priorities will be developed for aggregate production planning (APP) problem in a fuzzy environment. Using an interactive decision making process the proposed model tries to minimize total production costs, carrying and back ordering costs a...

We consider scheduling a single server in a multi-class queue subject to setup times and setup costs. We examine the issue of whether or not reductions in the mean and variance of the setup time distributions can lead to degraded system performance. Provided that setups are reduced according to a stochastically smaller ordering, we show that if an optimal policy is used both for the original sy...

This paper provides a framework for retailer pricing and ordering decisions in a dynamic category management setting. In this regard, the key ontributions of this paper are as follows. First, we develop a multi-brand ordering and pricing model that endogenizes retailer forward buying and aximizes profitability for the category. The model considers (i) manufacturer trade deals to retailers, (ii)...