We investigate the relationship between the various parameters in the Monaco MLC model and dose calculation accuracy for an Elekta Agility MLC. The vendor-provided MLC modeling procedure - completed first with external vendor participation and then exclusively in-house - was used in combination with our own procedures to investigate several sets of MLC modeling parameters to determine their eff...

This study investigates the development of trust in a Web-based vendor during two stages of a consumer’s Web experience: exploration and commitment. Through an experimental design, the study tests the effects of third party endorsements, reputation, and individual differences on trust in the vendor during these two stages.

In this paper, a single-vendor single-buyer integrated inventory model for deteriorating item with consignment stock policy is developed, assuming that the market demand dependent and there space limitation on buyer’s storage capacity. Both equal unequal shipments from vendor to buyer are considered. The effects of capacity average cost, shipment size, production batch studied through numerical...

The outsourced software development process has traditionally relied on a requirements-driven black-box approach for transferring knowledge of customer needs to vendors. When this approach is feasible, the need for the customer and the vendor to deeply understand each others’ knowledge domain is limited. We describe this as symmetric division of knowledge. However, asymmetric overlaps in knowle...

Environmental responsibility has become an important part of doing business. Government regulations and customers’ increased awareness of environmental issues are pushing supply chain entities to reduce the negative influence of their operations on the environment. In today’s world, companies must assume joint responsibility with their suppliers for the environmental impact of their actions. In...

This paper presents a vendor-buyer integrated inventory model. This paper considers the problem of a vendor and buyer integrated production inventory model for the vendor and the buyer optimization model under quality improvement investment and setup cost reduction in the production system such that the total profit is maximized. The relationship between demand and price is considered as a line...

To date, most research on information technology (IT) outsourcing concludes that firms decide to outsource IT services because they believe that outside vendors possess production cost advantages. Yet it is not clear whether vendors can provide production cost advantages, particularly to large firms who may be able to replicate vendors' production cost advantages in-house. Mixed out-sourcing su...

BACKGROUND To determine the normal range of left ventricular (LV) 2- dimensional (2-D) strain and vendor-specific differences, a multicenter prospective 2-D strain study endorsed by the Japanese Society of Echocardiography was conducted. METHODS AND RESULTS 2-D speckle tracking analysis was performed on 817 healthy subjects (age range, 0-88 years); the images included 3 LV short axis and 3 ap...

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between two IT adaptation strategies: firm-initiated and vendor-initiated adaptation, and managerially reported levels of satisfaction with information technology performance. It does so in the context of 60 implementations of Customer Relationship Management information technology. Firm-initiated adaptations originate with the implementing f...