OBJECTIVES To study the current selection of mobile applications (apps) relating to otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (OtoHNS). To conduct a review of the apps available in OtoHNS. DATA SOURCES App Store, Google Play, BlackBerry World, Windows Store. METHODS The Apple, Google, Windows, and Blackberry mobile app stores were searched for apps relating to OtoHNS. App information was analyze...

This paper quantifies the degree of competition and spatial differentiation across different retail channels by exploiting a unique dataset that describes a consumer’s choice of store, product of purchase, item price, and demographics. For each household, I collect information on the location and distance of nearby stores. Then I estimate a consumer’s choice of retailer in the sales market for ...

objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the current factors affecting the choice of ‎psychiatry as a specialty and to detect the main factors in their choice.‎ method: this descriptive study included 75 first year psychiatry residents in the academic year of ‎‎2014/2015. a likert-type anonymous questionnaire consisting of academic and ‎demographic data with 43 questions, which evalu...

BACKGROUND Pediatric subspecialists are often separated from the children who need them by distance, time, or socioeconomic factors. The Electronic Children's Hospital of the Pacific is an Internet-based store-and-forward pediatric consultation system established to overcome these barriers. OBJECTIVE To characterize the use of the Electronic Children's Hospital of the Pacific and its impact o...

We describe a three-step process that a retailer can use in setting retail store sales staff level. First, use historical data on revenue and planned and actual staffing levels by store to estimate how revenue varies with staffing level at each store. We disentangle the endogeneity between revenue and staffing levels by focusing on randomly occurring deviations between planned and actual labor....

Quantitative and qualitative analyses of 480 customers comparing a prototype storefront design of a “highend specialty retail” chain to a traditional storefront design of the same chain at a different location revealed that the new design, which significantly incorporated full spectrum digital color changing luminaries manufactured by Color Kinetics of Boston, MA, effectively increased the foot...

Retailing industry has undergone tremendous change in its complexity and sophistication over the past few years. Globally we are witnessing the evolution of retailing industry from traditionally micromanaged small retail formats like mom and pop store to modern corporate-managed large retail formats like supermarkets. Consumers are also shopping across these various store formats even for the p...

OBJECTIVE The retail food environment may be one important determinant of dietary intake. However, limited research focuses on individuals' food shopping behavior and activity within the retail food environment. This study's aims were to determine the association between six various dietary indicators and 1) food venue availability; 2) food venue choice and frequency; and 3) availability of hea...

Data concerning the price, cosmetic quality, and consumption of organic and conventional produce items were collected at two retail outlets in Tucson, Arizona. Data were gathered on Monday and Tuesday afternoons during a twelve week period between February 7 and April 26, 1994. The two retail stores were chosen as sites for data collection and consumer surveying because they stocked both organi...