We analyze insurance demand when insurable losses come with an uninsurable zero-mean background risk that increases in the loss size. If individual is vulnerable, loss-dependent triggers a precautionary motive and optimal demand. Prudence alone sufficient for to increase two cases: case of fair where smallest possible exceeds certain threshold value (referred as large case). derive conditions u...

While the traditional facility location problem considers exogenous demand, in some applications, locations of facilities could affect willingness customers to use certain types services, e.g., carsharing, and therefore they also realizations random demand. Moreover, a decision maker may not know exact distribution such endogenous demand how it is affected by choices. In this paper, we consider...

the aim of this study was to represent effective componentsin demand chain which help organizations attain high performance levelsthrough identification of these components and determining theirdegree of importance. the following questions were major ideas of thisstudy: what are the most effective components in demand chain? andhow are they effective on organizational performance? to this end,m...

In this paper, we develop a strategy to form on-demand droplets with specific pH values. The pH control is based on electrolysis of water in microfluidics, and the produced hydrogen and hydroxyl ions are separated and confined in individual containers during the droplet generation, triggered by a pressure pulse. By tuning the applied voltages and pressure pulses, we can control on demand the pH...

Hospitals provide diversity activities for a number of reasons. The authors examined community demand, resource availability, managed care, institutional pressure, and external orientation related variables that were associated with acute care hospital diversity plans and translation services. The authors used multiple logistic regression to analyze the data for 478 hospitals in the 2006 Nation...

the increasing consumption of electricity in iran is one of the greatest concerns of the government. using the subsidy-based pricing system is one of the main reasons of improper pattern of residential electricity consumption that has imposed great cost over the government due to the increased number of consumers and their improper way of consuming electricity. in this paper, we analyze the fac...