Methods of contacting customers are constantly evolving. An increasing number of manufacturers have established experience stores, plazas or centers that provide marketing, education, and trade functions to enhance business performance. This paper develops integer programming models to analyze the experience store establishment decision. Demand functions, cost parameters, and firm learning curv...

AIMS Through the review of relevant literature this study illuminates the concepts of social marketing and breastfeeding. It specifically discusses the positioning of the link between social marketing and breastfeeding within different fields of study and develops a theoretical framework that tries to bridge the gap between those disciplines. METHOD Various electronic databases were used and ...

Standard strategic goals of a company are related to the achievement of predefined values in the area of sales or a market share. Their achievement is conditional upon obtaining a stable consumer preferences and some competitive advantage. Applying traditional marketing activities does not have a desired effect, companies have been forced to search new ways to achieve their goals. One of these ...

cells with efficiency > 21% Dongqin Bi, Chenyi Yi, Jingshan Luo, Jean-David Décoppet, Fei Zhang, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Xiong Li, Michael Grätzel* & Anders Hagfeldt* Laboratory of Photomolecular Science, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. *C...

I. Kovacevic,1,* P. Babkevich,1,† M. Jeong ( ),1,‡ J. O. Piatek,1 G. Boero,2 and H. M. Rønnow1 1Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism, Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2Microsystems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland (Received 9 September 2016; revised manuscript received 11 No...

JEFFREY D. JENSEN,*† MATTHIEU FOLL‡ and LOUIS BERNATCHEZ§ *School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; †Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; ‡Genetic Cancer Susceptibility, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; §IBIS (Institut de Biologie Int egrative et des Syst emes), Universit e Laval, Qu ebec, ...

Expert Judgements in Risk Analysis: a Strategy to Overcome Uncertainties David N. Pluess, Amela Groso, Thierry Meyer* a Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Group of Chemical and Physical Safety, Station 6, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland b Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Occupational Safety and Health, School of Basic Sciences, Station ...

the state and federal governments that pay much of the cost of prescription drugs for their employees and for the poor or uninsured. An alternative to this model is to have physicians, relying on their training and experience, peer-reviewed journa l articles, and non-industry-sponsored continuing medical education, determine what medications are appropriate for their patients. Elliott argues th...

Silvio Ionta,* Roberto Martuzzi, Roy Salomon, and Olaf Blanke Center for Neuroprosthetics, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; and Department of Neurology, University Ho...

∗ Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (e-mail: [email protected]). ∗∗ Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (e-mail: [email protected]). ∗∗∗ Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, (e-mail: [email protected]) ∗∗∗∗ Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, (e-mail: dominique.bonvin...