A number of recent improvements in the engineering of high-titer expression vectors, in biopharmaceutical process development, and in facility construction have converged to present new opportunities for cost-effective, f lexible, biomanufacturing facility construction. The evolution of requirements for biopharmaceutical facilities is driven by globalization of the biopharmaceutical industry, p...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether retail sales of non-prescription products can be used for syndromic surveillance and whether it can detect influenza activity at different spatial scales. A secondary objective was to assess whether changes in purchasing behaviour were related to public health advice or levels of media or public interest. SETTING The UK. PARTICIPANTS National and regional influen...

The value co-creation has gained much attention in sales research, but less is known about how salespeople and customers interact in the authentic business to business (B2B) sales meetings. The study presented in this paper empirically contributes to existing research by presenting authentic B2B sales meetings that were video recorded and analyzed using observation and qualitative content analy...

BACKGROUND Selling of tobacco products to minors has been banned since 1996 by the tobacco control law in Turkey. However, it is also important for the public to support practices that prevent the access of tobacco products to minors. In addition, every individual has the responsibility of carrying out society based programs that restrict access to tobacco products especially to children and th...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is a major infectious disease globally. Adequate and proper use of anti-TB drugs is essential for TB control. This study aims to study China's production capacity and sales situation of anti-TB drugs, and to further discuss the potential for China to contribute to global TB control. METHODS The production data of anti-TB drugs in China from 2011 to 2013 and the sa...

Current product-oriented database search facilities are widely used on the Internet but recognized as limited in capability for intelligent sales support. The vision of intelligent knowledgeable virtual sales agents is to incorporate more knowledge about products, customers, and the sales process into an electronic shop. This chapter describes a knowledge-based technology called case-based reas...

Sales prediction is a complex task because of large number of factors affecting the demand. We present a context aware sales prediction approach, which selects the base predictor depending on the structural properties of the historical sales. First, we learn how to categorize the sales time series offline into “predictable” and “non-predictable” based on the structural features of the series. N...

Advertising is a form of communication that attempts to interpret the qualities of products, services and ideas in terms of consumer needs and wants. Some companies or organizations embrace advertising to achieve goodwill, high market share and sales. This research work is on the impact of advertising on sales volume with particular reference to igerian Bottling Company. The objective of the st...

Taxes levied on retail sales are a ubiquitous form of taxation, both in the US and abroad. While considerable study has examined the economic effects of such sales taxes vis-a-vis consumer demand, surprisingly little attention has been focused on the effects up the supply chain. In this paper, we consider a parsimonious model of retail products sold in a variety of consumer markets (each of whi...