Organizations aim at making profits and as such they must come up with effective strategies for attracting customers. The use of database technology is one of the most commonly utilized methods of conducting business operations using online purchases. An organization comes up with a data flow process model that allows customers to purchase and pay for goods and services online. The following pa...

This report presents a detailed update to our 2008 publication on the tissue engineering (TE) and stem cell industry. Data are reported through mid 2011 showing an almost three-fold growth in commercial sales over the past 4 years. In addition, the number of companies selling products or offering services has increased over two-fold to 106, and they are generating a remarkable $3.5 billion in s...

Opportunities are wide open, all across the board. Smart technologies enable countless new applications, driving a range of end-use market sectors and boosting semiconductor sales. The number of networked devices is growing exponentially and globally. R&D teams rapidly pair devices with services, applications and content. At the same time, private companies — not just government agencies or mil...

A new methodology, for optimal customer selection in cross-selling of financial services products, such as mortgage loans and non life insurance contracts, is presented. The optimal cross-sales selection of prospects is such that the expected profit is maximized, while at the same time the risk of suffering future losses is minimized. Expected profit maximization and mean-variance optimization ...

Unless otherwise stated, shipments, crossings or imports are for the weeks ending October 21 and 28, and November 04, 2017 in that order in thousand hundredweight (cwt) or 100,000 pound units. Expected movement is for the period October 29-November 11, 2017. Prices are for Monday, November 06, 2017 compared to Monday, October 30, 2017. Unless otherwise stated, sales are F.O.B. Shipping Point Ba...

This paper uses data from the sales division of a financial services firm to investigate how a leader’s centrality in external and internal social networks is related to the objective performance of the leader’s group, and to the leader’s personal reputation for leadership among subordinates, peers, and supervisors. External social network ties were based on the friendship ties among all 88 of ...

Digital content services have become an important means of enjoying music, and considerable debate exists over the performance rights of sound recordings. In this paper, we exploit the removal of Warner Music content from YouTube in January 2009, and its restoration in October 2009, as a plausible experimental design to investigate the impact of online content availability on music sales and In...

this study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. the findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...

We apply Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) to image sequences generated from natural images using a range of spatial transformations. An analysis of the resulting receptive fields shows that they have a rich spectrum of invariances and share many properties with complex and hypercomplex cells of the primary visual cortex. Furthermore, the dependence of the solutions on the statistics of the transform...

This paper evaluates a more integrated approach of regulation when doing international comparisons and represents the first cross-country study in the South American region in which quality and weather variables have been included in the analysis. A total of 82 electricity distribution firms operating in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru have been analysed for the period 1998-2008. Stochastic f...