purpose- the aim of this essay is to attempt to explain the impact of religion and family structure on consumer decision-making style within a muslim country. this paper wants to demonstrate how and why husbands/wives with eastern culture and islamic norms use different decision-making styles. design/methodology/approach- literature reviews on consumer decision-making, religion and family struc...

This paper analyses life cycle cost for equipment protected by both base and extended warranty policies from a consumer’s perspective. We assume that the equipment have two types of failures: minor and catastrophic. A minor failure can be corrected by a minimal repair whereas a catastrophic failure can only be removed by a replacement. The equipment is assumed to be maintained at no charge to t...

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The paper presents a generalized mathematical model for minimizing the total operating cost of the industry subject to the constraints. The work presented in this paper also deals with the results of application of neural network and Demand Side Management (DSM) techniques applied to a medium scale milk industrial consumer in India to achieve the improvement in load factor, reduction in Maximum...

We reformulate neoclassical consumer choice by focusing on λ, the marginal utility of money. As the opportunity cost of current expenditure, λ is approximated by the slope of the indirect utility function of the continuation. We argue that λ can largely supplant the role of an arbitrary budget constraint in partial equilibrium analysis. The result is a better grounded, more flexible and more in...

A common sales tactic is for a seller to encourage a potential customer to make her purchase decision quickly. We consider a market with sequential consumer search in which firms often encourage first-time visitors to buy immediately, either by making an “exploding offer” (which permits no return once the consumer leaves) or by offering a “buy-now discount” (which makes the price paid for immed...

Low power, high performance, cost, integration, quality — consumer electronics customers demand all of these, with an increasing sense of urgency and diminishing product cycle times. Properly balancing these factors is the key for success in today's consumer electronics semiconductor industry. SOC designers are faced with challenges of not only delivering complex and highly integrated mixed sig...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe the resource use and associated direct costs of diabetes care for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the 6 months before and after initiation of insulin therapy. METHODS INSTIGATE is a prospective, noninterventional, multicenter study of patients with type 2 diabetes who were initiating insulin for the first time as part of their usu...

A major objective for the Commission on the Future of Higher Education is to insure that consumer-friendly information about colleges and universities be easily available to the public with little or no cost. The following issue paper/proposal is designed to produce that outcome through a recommendation to implement a free, comprehensive information system about higher education available from ...

The integration of accelerometers and gyroscopes has successfully reached a point where consumer devices can readily incorporate motion while beginning to meet cost, size, robustness, and battery life targets. As consumer electronics companies continually search for the next differentiating product functionality, they are increasingly adopting motion in gaming, mobile handset, digital still cam...