Advance payment systems represent a pricing innovation, in which companies predict customers’ future consumption for the following year and then bill a series of monthly, uniform advance payments. Any difference between predicted and actual consumption gets settled at the end of the year with a refund or extra payment. Companies thus gain earlier access to funds and lower risk of customer defau...

C a firm that sells products over repeated seasons, each of which includes a full-price period and a markdown period. The firm may deliberately understock products in the markdown period to induce highvalue customers to purchase early at full price. Customers cannot perfectly anticipate availability. Instead, they use observed past capacities to form capacity expectations according to a heurist...

In this study a supplier-retailer-customer supply chain of deteriorating item has been proposed where the supplier adopt full credit policy for retailer to enhance retailer's order volume. This facility influences provide period his/her customers on portion purchased amount boost market demand. These are named as partial and customers. For opportunity adopted by retailer, he/she always faces ri...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an emerging global epidemic disease. Egypt reports the highest incidence in the world. Aim of the study: To estimate seroprevalence and to assess knowledge, attitude and practices regarding HCV and HBV among barbers and their customers in Assiut District, Egypt. Methods: Quesi-experimental research design carried out in Assiut District and City. Included 350 participa...

due to the importance of “service quality and customerssatisfaction” subject, this study seeks to investigate and prioritize thefactors which are effective on service quality and customers satisfactionusing grey relational analysis (gra) method. in the case of statisticalpopulations with large sizes, none of the other methods can competewith gra from the viewpoint of calculation accuracy. the s...

Behaviour scoring is used in several companies to score the customers according to credit risk by analyzing historical data about their past behaviour. In this paper we describe a data mining approach to credit risk evaluation in a Portuguese telecommunication company.

One strategy for improving cyber security would be for Internet service providers (ISPs) to take a more active role in curtailing criminal behavior over the Internet. However, few ISPs today are offering robust security to their customers. They largely contend that home Internet users are unwilling to pay for improvements in cyber security. Yet no prior studies have attempted to quantify home I...

background: a cross-sectional analytic method was used to assess health and safety risks that really matter in restaurants of universities and hospitals in the gaza strip, palestine.  materials and methods: a 40-item questionnaire was completed by workers in all university and governmental hospital restaurants in the gaza strip. another 30-item questionnaire was completed by university students...

The organisational constraints imposed on servicescapes during the Covid have had dramatic consequences for both retailers and consumers. On one hand, need to reduce congestion new regulations, such as “maximum number of customers per store,” a significant impact length, duration, location queues. other fear contagion has changed way we appropriate physical spaces. Customers respond adverse con...