INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN RETAIL TRADE

Musculoskeletal Disorder in Retail Trade

The average costs of Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD) and odds ratios for filing medical claims related to MSD were examined. The medical claims were identified by ICD 9 codes for four US Census regions within retail trade. Large private firms’ medical claims data from Thomson Reuters Inc. MarketScan databases for the years 2003 through 2006 were used. Average costs were highest for claims relate...

Trends in retail prescription expenditures.

Wholesale and retail trade sector.

The Wholesale Trade sector comprises establishments en­ gaged in wholesaling merchandise, generally without transfor­ mation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise. The wholesaling process is an intermediate step in the distribution of merchandise. Wholesalers are organized to sell or arrange the purchase or sale of (1) goods for resale (i.e., goods sold to other wholesal...

Trends in Storage Infrastructure

virtual datasets, which are transparently translated to storage access requests to objects (of an object based storage), iSCSI or FS files. The generalized storage entity maps all access requests (directly or via device independent mechanism) to a conventional block controller, which in turn uses RAID for error correction and reliability,

The Globalization of Trade in Retail Services