A model of two-product, Hotelling duopolists is examined in which firms can engage in mixed bundling. Even though products are independent in consumption, bundled pricing induces complementarity across different products. The most efficient outcome, symmetric independent goods pricing, is no longer an equilibrium when mixed bundling is feasible. On the other hand, inefficient pure bundling equi...

Exogenous mechanical perturbations on living tissues are commonly used to investigate whether cell effectors can respond to mechanical cues. However, in most of these experiments, the applied mechanical stress and/or the biological response are described only qualitatively. We developed a quantitative pipeline based on microindentation and image analysis to investigate the impact of a controlle...

Graphs depicted as node-link diagrams are widely used to show relationships between entities. However, nodelink diagrams comprised of a large number of nodes and edges often suffer from visual clutter. The use of edge bundling remedies this and reveals high-level edge patterns. Previous methods require the graph to contain a hierarchy for this, or they construct a control mesh to guide the edge...

A new approach for procuring logging residues has been introduced, in which the residues are compacted into cylindrical bales known as composite residue logs (CRLs). Some large-scale productivity studies have been undertaken on different bundling machines, and preliminary calculations on the possible benefits associated with bundling have been based on limited material or on prototypes. The aim...

We consider a retailer selling a fixed inventory of two perishable products over a finite horizon. The products are sold individually or as part of a bundle. The customers arrive following a Poisson Process and each customer makes a purchasing decision based on her reservation prices of individual products: she either buys one of the individual products, buys the bundle or leaves without a purc...

The gaseous hormone ethylene is known to regulate plant growth under etiolated conditions (the 'triple response'). Although organization of cortical microtubules is essential for cell elongation, the underlying mechanisms that regulate microtubule organization by hormone signaling, including ethylene, are ambiguous. In the present study, we demonstrate that ethylene signaling participates in re...

This research develops and tests a model of the effects of resources bundling on third-party logistics (3PL) provid‐ ers’ performance. Based on data from a survey of Malaysian 3PLs, basic and advanced technology and equipment resources, knowledge and relational resources, and demand management interfaces are identified. The bundling of advanced technology, knowledge resources, and demand manage...

Locations-based services are a promising revenue source for the market players in mobile business. A critical parameter for accruing revenue is the applied pricing strategy. This paper proposes the introduction of bundle pricing in the market of location-based services and describes a research model that will be used to test its applicability and indicate its robustness. To motivate the propose...

We consider a compact manifold X whose boundary is a locally trivial fiber bundle, and an associated pseudodifferential algebra that models fibered cusps at infinity. Using trace-like functionals that generate the 0-dimensional Hochschild cohomology groups we first express the index of a fully elliptic fibered cusp operator as the sum of a local contribution from the interior of X and a term th...

When messages, which are to be sent point-to-point in a network, become available at irregular intervals, a decision must be made each time a new message becomes available as to whether it should be sent immediately or if it is better to wait for more messages and send them all together. Because of physical properties of the networks, a certain minimum amount of time must elapse in between the ...