Despite considerable media attention, portable electronic readers (e-readers) have not yet had a significant consumer impact. They offer several features unavailable in print media, such as easily accessible content and potential for interactive capacity similar to what can be found on the Internet. Flawed design and high cost, however, may inhibit wide end-user adoption. Using a mix of scholar...

Coordination and harmony between different departments of a company can be an important factor in achieving competitive advantage if the company corrects alignment between strategies of different departments. This paper presents an integrated decision model based on recent advances of geometric programming technique. The demand of a product considers as a power function of factors such as produ...

OBJECTIVES The prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a priority for improved safety in hospitalised patients. Worldwide, there is growing concern over the undersuse of appropriate thromboprophylaxis. Computerised decision support improves the implementation of thromboprophylaxis and reduces inpatient VTE. However, an economic assessment of this approach has not yet been performed. OBJ...

The Integrated Healthcare Association is coordinating an episode of care payment initiative involving prominent health plans, hospital systems, and physicians organizations in California. he fragmentation of payment methods undermines efficiency and quality of care due to its effects on both providers and consumers. This effect is especially pronounced when considering high-cost surgical proced...

Pond aquaculture is the most significant fish production method in central Europe, approximately 70% of the total fish production is originated from traditional fish ponds in this region, which is a resource-saving, ecologically sustainable production method. However, the growth of this sector is not expected because of the low production capacity of valuable fish species and the relatively hig...

This research analyzes consumer privacy issues pertaining to the newly developing wireless marketing context, specifically, wireless advertising messaging (WAM). We develop a conceptual framework named as DIGs to assess the efficacy of industry self-regulation, government legislation, and technological solutions in ensuring consumer privacy in WAM. In addition to enhancing our theoretical under...

Ticket pricing in professional sports is transitioning from a cost-based to demand-based approach. It has been argued that consumer perceptions of fairness regarding demand-based ticket pricing could influence purchase decisions. Perceptions of unfair pricing practices can lead to dissatisfaction and negatively affect purchase behavior. However, familiarity with demand-based pricing strategies ...

Digital Imaging is a platform technology driving rapid growth in consumer, industrial and aerospace product markets (Loizides, et al., 2000; Somogyi, 1999). Current single chip, imaging solutions have improved cost, power, and form factor (Herrick, Yook, & Katehi, 1998; Ronen, et al., 2001; Somogyi, 1999). However, current single chip strategies face significant constraints that affect the cost...

Capacitive input devices are becoming increasingly prevalent in consumer devices. This paper presents the hardware and algorithms for the low cost implementation of a capacitive 2.5D input device. The low cost and low power consumption of the device make it suitable for use in portable devices such as cellular phones. The electrical properties used are such that the preexisting snap dome techno...

Proof of Lemma 1: In order to characterize the equilibrium, we first start with the second period decisions for the consumers who purchased the product in the first period. If, in the second period, no vulnerabilities arise then there is no decision to make for a consumer. Suppose a vulnerability arises. If a consumer with valuation v decides to patch the software, her expected total payoff is ...