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Warranty is a powerful marketing tool for the manufacturer and a good protection for both the manufacturer and the customer. However, warranty always involves additional costs to the manufacturer, which depend on product reliability characteristics and warranty parameters. This paper presents an approach to optimisation of warranty parameters for known product failure distribution to reduce the...

Dual-channel not only provides reasonable products but also a large quantity of opportunities, where the members’ attitude towards risk has a major impact on channel optimization. In this paper, risks are classified as general risk and interruption risk. As for general risk, combined with risk-aversion attitude, mean-variance method is used to build optimal pricing model and expected utility mo...

Rights ©2002 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. Abslrocf-In recent years, a new routing method, known ...

The beginning of least-cost utility planning in Europe is marked by 42 recent programmes offering financial incentives to encourage the use of energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). Programmes have been conducted in six countries and manufacturers, retailers, and governments played active roles. Most of the programmes targeted residential consumers, but eight were available to comme...

solar irrigation pumps a reality in India. It is only a matter of time before governments begin aggressive promotion of solar irrigation pumps. Several players are already in the market offering a range of solar pumping solutions. This note is inspired by a field visit to some of the solar pumps installed by Claro Energy in Bihar. Its cost structure which is high on fixed costs and low on varia...

Using data representative of the U.S. working population, this research explores age norms for promotional expectations and assesses whether or not they carry with them psychological consequences. Findings reveal some degree of normativity in promotion expectations during two age brackets of the work life span, and they are consistent across assorted structural features. Normative expectations,...

Analysis of visitors to CalMHSA-funded student mental health websites shows that visitors at educational institutions comprised the largest audience segment and promotional campaigns likely increased traffic.

In a randomized controlled trial, an intensive promotional campaign failed to increase the uptake of vaccination against influenza among health care workers. The uptake of vaccination was low.