in primary care medicine, deciding how to invest a practice’s precious capital resources is becoming more difficult. Purchasing procedural medical equipment is something many physicians may consider, and sales representatives for the equipment can always make the investment sound enticing. But how do you really know if the investment will be beneficial to you – financially or otherwise? Wheth...

In the single rent-to-buy decision problem, without a priori knowledge of the amount of time a resource will be used we need to decide when to buy the resource, given that we can rent the resource for $1 per unit time or buy it once and for all for $c. In this paper we study algorithms that make a sequence of single rent-to-buy decisions, using the assumption that the resource use times are ind...

BACKGROUND Understanding the different ways underage youth access tobacco is required in order to develop more effective tobacco access restrictions. The purpose of this study was to examine characteristics that predict whether underage smoking youth buy their own cigarettes, buy their cigarettes from friends, or get someone else to buy their cigarettes. METHODS Logistic regression analyses w...

make or buy decision is one of the main areas of decision making for managers. transaction cost economics (tce), as an influential economic approach to the theory of the firm, tries to put forward a theoretical framework for this important decision. from tce perspective, the greater the asset specificity, the more the behavioral uncertainty and the more the transaction frequency, the more will ...

Food wastage is an environmental concern worldwide, particularly regarding households. This study aims to identify household food wasting segments and assess the relationship between both consumer product determinants identified segments. Data were collected through a survey of several packaged chicken products (n = 256; 2019) in retail setting Belgium. Of participants, 36% reported never any m...