It has been well established that statins, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, reduce mortality from cardiovascular diseases. Statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering drug, may also affect mortality from various diseases by their pleiotropic effects of anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative activities. However, there are only few reports concerning the effects of...

The paper addresses an inventory model of pharmaceutical products where the demand rate of the customers increases with the volume of the initiatives of the sales team. In this model, the deterioration of the product varies depending on on-hand inventory. The volume of sales team initiatives is a control variable. It is dependent on on-hand inventory and vice versa. The profit function of the f...

Junk food consumption is associated with rising obesity rates in the United States. While a "junk food" specific tax is a potential public health intervention, a majority of states already impose sales taxes on certain junk food and soft drinks. This study reviews the state sales tax variance for soft drinks and selected snack products sold through grocery stores and vending machines as of Janu...

Daily deal, or flash sale, websites offer limited quantity of selected brands and products for a short period of time. The idea is that short-term sales event of branded products drives consumer interest. Flash sale sites like vip.com negotiate great deals from various vendors on a limited quantity of selected products. In operation, all merchandises need to be allocated to regional warehouses ...

We examine the relative dynamic responses of state personal tax revenues and sales tax bases to changes in state personal income. Our econometric analysis, which includes separate analyses of long-run and short-run dynamics for each state, permits the estimation of asymmetric short-run responses depending upon the relationship between current and expected tax base growth. Results indicate that ...

This paper aims at exploring the use of sentiment analysis on social media as a tool for sales forecasting in the automotive industry. Previous research on this topic has presented significant results although current literature still lacks investigation on the usefulness of this technique when it comes to more expensive items. In particular, about 500,000 social media posts and eleven car mode...

OBJECTIVE The current study explored the practicality of preventing underage retail cigarette sales and the relationship to cigarette supplies among adolescents. METHOD In Fort Morgan, Colorado, an isolated rural community with below-average socioeconomic status and a large Latino population, supervised teenaged employees repeatedly attempted to buy cigarettes from every store over a 9-month ...

There are a number of measurement instruments in the field of education whose aims are to measure various aspects of educational technology. However, the psychometric properties of such instruments are not always determined, and their use is not always appropriate. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the survey of factors affecting teachers teaching with techno...