The major concern of reverse logistics operations involves reducing costs, improving after sales service, waste disposal and providing good quality service in today's green environment. Process optimization involving uncertainty under set-up is a challenge. There need to consider the dynamics real situation because variation product/process characteristics make system more robust. A comparative...

This study aims to determine the impact of green marketing mix and consumer attitudes towards brand image purchasing decisions, as well mediating function image. The object this research is consumers Love Beauty Planet in Malang town with a total sample 190 respondents who were selected by non-probability sampling technique. Quantitative data collected through questionnaires analyzed using Part...

Abstract: Bottom ash is a hazardous by-product from coal based thermal power plants. In this study fine aggregate in concrete mix has been replaced with bottom ash and glass fibre is additionally used to enhance the strength characteristics of concrete. The concrete mix design is done for M30 grade concrete. The mix is prepared for different combinations of 0%, 30%, 40%, 50% and 100% of replace...

The mix of electricity consumed in any stage in the life cycle of a product, process, or industrial sector has a significant effect on the associated inventory of emissions and environmental impacts because of large differences in the power generation method used. Fossil-fuel-fired or nuclear-centralized steam generators; large-scale and small-scale hydroelectric power; and renewable options, s...

This paper develops a model of endogenous product selection by firms. The theory is motivated by new evidence we present on the importance of product switching by U.S. manufacturers. Two-thirds of continuing firms change their product mix every five years, and product switches involve more than 40% of firm output and almost half of existing products. The theoretical model incorporates heterogen...

Product life cycle (PLC) analysis studies patterns of sales over time and the reasons behind those patterns. Such can be challenging because interconnected effect technical product characteristics, marketing mix elements, environment (e.g. competition, consumers). Moreover, employees from different functions have backgrounds perceptions about origins patterns, which constrains mutual understand...

Platforms are gradually becoming important business organization models, and platforms with bilateral market characteristics such as payment online shopping penetrating people’s lives. Freemium content mostly exists in particular video platforms, etc. need to balance upstream downstream markets when formulating strategies. This paper is the first explore time-to-market pricing strategies of pro...

We describe a MIX cascade protocol and a reputation system that together increase the reliability of a network of MIX cascades. In our protocol, MIX nodes periodically generate a communally random seed that, along with their reputations, determines cascade configuration. Nodes send test messages to monitor their cascades. Senders can also demonstrate message decryptions to convince honest casca...