The advent of the World-Wide Web in 1992 eventually led to the advent of electronic commerce. eCommerce has led to the decline in sales tax revenues for various collection agencies across the U.S. The federal government has issued, and renewed, a moratorium on Internet taxes, and thus state and local governments are restricted from collecting sales tax from Internet sales. Coupled with a demise...

We explore in this paper the performance of sales rebate contracts in fashion supply chains. We conduct both analytical and numerical analyses via a mean-variance framework with reference to real empirical data. To be specific, we evaluate the expected profits and variance of profits risk of the fashion supply chains, fashion retailers, and manufacturers under 1 the currently implemented sales ...

As part of an investigation into the recent epidemic of deaths from asthma in New Zealand, trends in the sales of drugs for asthma in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom during 1975-81 were examined. Data on sales of drugs were obtained from an international pharmaceutical market research organisation. A striking increase in sales of sympathomimetic aerosols, steroid aerosols, and th...

The present paper analyses the impact of sales promotions on store performance, in the short and long term, from the retailer’s point of view. Relationships among promoted and regular sales in the hypermarkets of a large-scale retail chain of national importance, are investigated by means of a structural vector autoregressive model (SVAR). Statistically significant effects of sales promotions i...

Focuses on several key industries like Textile, Plastics, and Electronics, this study applies the Vector Autoregressive Moving Average (VARMA) Model on the industrial sales index and industrial stock prices index to observe the dynamic relationship between sales and stock prices. Our empirical result has shown a consistent pattern of relationship between sales and stock prices among all industr...

This paper describes a minimally immersive interactive system for flow visualization of multivariate volumetric data. The system, SFA, uses perceptuallymotivated rendering to increase the quantity and clarity of information perceived. Proprioception, stereopsis, perceptually-motivated shape visualization, and three-dimensional interaction are combined in SFA to allow the three-dimensional volum...

Although agenda of Water supply in sufficient quantity and standard quality is highlighted in India from last few years. But Yet Performance assessment and Efficiency evaluation of water supply services not in practice. However the analysis is confined to the realm of researchers and policy makers. The present paper spells inclusion of quality parameter in assessment of utilities through fronti...

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