The idea for this paper emerged from a presentation at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference held in Acapulco, Mexico in June of 2000. As a popular tourist destination, Acapulco represented a mix of “global” commerce familiar to world travelers. The conference hotel, owned by the Fairmont Hotel chain headquartered in New York, was one of several luxury resorts that stretc...

In this explorative research, we aim to find the most important service experience variables that determine customer purchasing decision and the clerks’ influence on customers’ purchases. This study was conducted as a case study of a children’s apparel company, denoted Company L, which has 243 retail stores. Company L has implemented Point of Sale (POS) systems in its retail stores, and would l...

Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm’s 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and job titles at each store. We first compare the rates at which Hispanic and white non-Hispanic managers ...

Cell stores provide a relational-like, tabular level of abstraction to business users while leveraging recent database technologies, such as key-value stores and document stores. This allows to scale up and out the efficient storage and retrieval of highly dimensional data. Cells are the primary citizens and exist in different forms, which can be explained with an analogy to the state of matter...

This paper provides a novel implementation of blockchain technology, and data is stored in decentralized distributed ledger to assist information protection blood supply chain management prevent loss or identity theft. The present used exclusively from the volunteers (known as donors), making its derivatives one significant roles treating diseases today. In particular, depending on type product...

In this paper, based on analysis of impact factors for service quality of logistics center in chains stores, a set of assessment indexes are proposed. Then, on the basis of this set of assessment indexes, two appraisal models are put forth: one is model based on TOPSIS, the other is fuzzy comprehensive assessment model. The experimental results demonstrate that the two novel methods are effecti...

This paper studies business hour decisions by retail chains and corner shops in a spatial retail market. We use a Salop-type model where retailers compete in prices and shopping hours. Assuming equally efficient firms, we find that the corner shop chooses no shorter business hours than a retail chain, but potentially longer ones. Additionally, we find that the firms have different stands toward...

Although leukocytes of the innate immune system, including eosinophils, contain within their granules preformed stores of cytokines available for selective and rapid release, little is known about the mechanisms governing the mobilization and secretion of these cytokines. Here we show that a cytokine receptor, the IL-4 receptor alpha chain, mediates eotaxin-stimulated mobilization of preformed ...

State of the art RDF stores often rely on exhaustive indexing and sequential (self-)joins for SPARQL query processing. However, query execution is dependent on, and often limited by the underlying storage and indexing schemes. Even though RDF can give birth to datasets with loosely defined schemas, it is common for an emerging structure to be present in the data. In this paper we introduce a no...