The aim of this paper is to develop an optimization model for quality improvement by considering quality investment in rework policies and supply chain profit sharing. To improve product’s quality, the decision of process target and its tolerance is important since it directly affects the defective rate, manufacturing cost, and loss to customer due to the deviation of product from its specifica...

Daily-deal business model is a type of performance-based advertising wherein a publisher provides advertising space to a merchant who pays a proportion of revenue generated on the website to the publisher. We develop a two-period model to capture the strategic interaction between a publisher and a merchant where consumers are heterogeneous in their willingness to pay for quality and awareness a...

This paper examines changes in drug utilization following Taiwan's newly implemented National Health Insurance (NHI) outpatient prescription drug cost-sharing program for persons over 65 years old. The study is a hospital outpatient prescription level analysis that adopts a pretest-posttest control group experiment design. Selected measures of outpatient prescription drug utilization are examin...

Purpose The study aims to ascertain the impacts of entertainment, social and functional values on likelihood sharing commercial videos online verify whether consumers' share brand attachment equity. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted with 368 university students who watched five companies YouTube Brazil. electronic form had 24 questions covering constructs entertainment value, s...

We consider a three-stage fresh agricultural product supply chain consisting of supplier, third-party logistics service provider (TPLSP), and retailer discuss the coordination mechanism “revenue sharing + double cost sharing” contracts “two-part tariff revenue between TPLSP, retailer. Based on this, we not only explore conditions for full Pareto improvement but also analyze effect blockchain te...

This research reports results from an experiment on the effect of sunk costs and brand violations on consumer choice. Participants were randomly assigned to one of six hypothetical scenarios where sunk cost magnitude, consumer-brand relationship violation, and availability of product alternatives were experimentally manipulated. Consumer choice, consumer loyalty, and consumer-brand relationship...

A signiicant driver for the consumer use of high bandwidth in the near future will be interactive video on demand (IVOD). A range of service types can be deployed, based on a diiering sophistication, which must be traded against the network costs (bandwidth) and component costs (switch complexity and memory). The potential aggregate bandwidth required is huge (O(1Pbps)), and thus it is essentia...

This paper proposes a simplified simultaneous multithreading (SMT) architecture aiming at CPU cores of embedded SoCs for consumer applications. This architecture reduces the hardware cost and design complexity of the SMT architecture by adopting in-order execution within threads and static resource partitioning among threads. In our architecture, processor resources are divided into three types...