Although the disaggregation of consumers is crucial in understanding the fragmented markets that are dominant in many developed countries, it is not always straightforward to carry out such disaggregation within conventional retail modelling frameworks due to the limitations of data. In particular, consumer grouping based on sampled data is not assured to link with the other statistics that are...

Measuring value and interest rate risk in retail financial markets such as the market for consumer deposits has proven to be a very difficult problem for financial firms. Standard models of value and interest rate risk (duration), based on the competitive market paradigm, are inappropriate in retail markets characterized by sluggish price and quantity behavior. Although the penetration of sophi...

Carcass cut-out yields of 888 steers obtained from mating Hereford and Angus cows to Hereford or Angus (HA), Charolais (Ch), Gelbvieh (Gb), Pinzgauer (Pz), Shorthorn (Sh), Galloway (Gw), Longhorn (Lh), Nellore (Ne), Piedmontese (Pm), and Salers (Sa) sires were compared. Data were evaluated at constant age (426 d), carcass weight (324 kg), fat thickness (1.2 cm), fat trim percentage (23%), and m...

In an era when the customer is deemed as the king of the retail market, it pays heed to analyze every dimension of the customer’s purchase behavior to provide an insight into their buying patterns and to better understand retail rationale of the customers. This dissertation has attempted to envisage the temporal traits of the customer’s behavior in the Retail marketing. The research has put for...

OBJECTIVES To understand the molecular epidemiology of gentamicin-resistant Campylobacter and investigate aminoglycoside resistance mechanisms. METHODS One-hundred-and-fifty-one gentamicin-resistant Campylobacter isolates from humans (n = 38 Campylobacter jejuni; n = 41, Campylobacter coli) and retail chickens (n = 72 C. coli), were screened for the presence of gentamicin resistance genes by ...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood-level characteristics such as economic hardship and the retail food environment are assumed to be correlated and to influence consumers' dietary behavior and health status, but few studies have investigated these different relationships comprehensively in a single study. This work aims to investigate the association between neighborhood-level economic hardship, the retai...

transactions in a retail system are a comprehensive set of store applications. These applications include point-of sale operations and back-room activities. Store performance is described by the throughput rate of transactions and the delay in the processing of any particular transaction. Two techniques of performance analysis are discussed: analytic evaluation atzd store simulation. A n import...

The power of agent-based modelling (ABM), when integrated with other AI-based and conventional approaches, can be greatly enhanced. The resulting hybrid systems offer a flexible modelling environment that exploits the benefits of the component methods. In particular, the ABM paradigm can be used to explore and understand systems that are governed by complex, non-linear relationships and self-or...

The authors investigate the moderating effects of ambient odors on shoppers’ emotions, perceptions of the retail environment, and perceptions of product quality under various levels of retail density. The context for the experiment is a real-life field location—in a community shopping mall. The pleasing ambient scents are hypothesized to positively moderate shoppers’ perceptions of their enviro...

Economic geographers are directing increasing attention to international expansion by leading retail TNCs. However, there has been minimal examination of the financing methods of these firms and, while the major retail TNCs have supply relationships in subSahara Africa, so far none have opened stores on the continent. Therefore in this paper we analyse expansion into sub-Sahara Africa by a seco...