In this study we propose an approach of quantifying the risks of misinforming and malfunctioning aiming to assess the quality of a warranty policy. We identify the “quality” of a warranty policy as an integral measure, based on the balance between two types of warranty – the warranty of malfunctioning and warranty of misinforming. This measure is represented in terms of the length of the warran...

This study aims to understand the form of social action in kinship migrant informal sector vendors and values that underlie formation warranty. The research paradigm used this is definition paradigm, using a qualitative approach an ethnographic type research. technique determining subjects purposive sampling data collection techniques interview observation techniques. Data analysis interactive ...

Background Insulin resistance (IR) is a major cardiometabolic risk factor in females with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The euglycemic clamp is the gold standard method to measure IR. However, considering the time and cost that it takes, surrogate markers of IR are now widely used. The current study aimed at evaluating the cutoff points of even less invasive anthropometric and body composit...

Objectives: Employers increasingly focus on absence benefits and connections with employee health. United States include Sick Leave (SL), Short- Long-Term Disability (STD LTD, respectively) for non-work-related injuries/illnesses, Workers’ Compensation (WC) work-related injuries/illnesses. This research explores all-cause (SL, STD, WC) utilization changes from baseline eligible employees rheuma...

In this study, a new warranty service strategy is proposed and analyzed. This strategy adds the renewing free-replacement warranty to a non-repairable product sold under the rebate warranty policy. According to the renewing free-replacement warranty, the seller (manufacturer) is responsible for replacing all failed product during the warranty period, and the warranty begins anew with each repla...

In the frq-wc-based circadian feedback loops of Neurospora, two PAS domain-containing transcription factors, WHITE COLLAR-1 (WC-1) and WC-2, form heterodimeric complexes that activate the transcription of frequency (frq). FRQ serves two roles in these feedback loops: repressing its own transcription by interacting with the WC complex and positively upregulating the levels of WC-1 and WC-2 prote...

Reordering buffer management (RBM) is an elegant theoretical model that captures the tradeoff between buffer size and switching costs for a variety of reordering/sequencing problems. In this problem, colored items arrive over time, and are placed in a buffer of size k. When the buffer becomes full, an item must be removed from the buffer. A penalty cost is incurred each time the sequence of rem...