Internal and external coalition functioning is an important predictor of coalition success that has been linked to perceived coalition effectiveness, coalition goal achievement, coalition ability to support evidence-based programs, and coalition sustainability. Understanding which aspects of coalition functioning best predict coalition success requires the development of valid measures of empir...

The relationship between demand and customer returns represents an important input to inventory planning models. While poor estimates of this relationship can dramatically increase inventory management costs (de Brito and van der Laan, 2002), there is surprisingly little research on the topic. In this paper we investigate the relationship between demand and returns by comparing how customers’ r...

Certain inventory items are living organisms, for example livestock, and are therefore capable of growing during the replenishment cycle. These items often serve as various saleable food items downstream in supply chains. The purpose of this paper is to develop a lot sizing model for growing items if the supplier of the items offers incremental quantity discounts. A mathematical model is derive...

BACKGROUND A small number of prior studies have found that victims of school bullying tend to exhibit poor social skills. Few of these have examined this issue from multiple perspectives, and there has been a focus on a restricted range of social skills. AIMS To determine the extent to which self, peers, and teachers regard victims as having poorer social skills than non-victims across 20 beh...

Interactive video services, like video telephony, social TV or on-line gaming, are about to become a significant part of the service portfolio for telecommunication service providers. As the future commercial success of these services will depend essentially on their end-to-end quality as perceived by the end user, appropriate Quality-of-Experience (QoE) measurement methods are of paramount imp...

OBJECTIVE This study explored relationships regarding perceived stress, energy drink consumption, and academic performance among college students. PARTICIPANTS Participants included 136 undergraduates attending a large southern plains university. METHODS Participants completed surveys including items from the Perceived Stress Scale(1) and items to describe energy drink consumption, academic...

Despite the popularity of online auctions as a new e-commerce operating model, few studies have explored why sellers intend to pay for the services of particular auction sites, especially while other free auction services exist. Developed on the basis of the theory of perceived value, this study includes network externalities in seller perceptions and explores why sellers intend to pay for thes...

The dynamics of attention in social media tend to obey power laws. Attention concentrates on a relatively small number of popular items and neglecting the vast majority of content produced by the crowd. Although popularity can be an indication of the perceived value of an item within its community, previous research has hinted to the fact that popularity is distinct from intrinsic quality. As a...