This paper investigates the influence of ratings on an emerging software application market, app market. Given the nature of software application as experience good and the general scarcity of other quality signals such as advertising or branding for majority of app developers, consumers' ex ante belief on app utility essentially relies on the app rating which itself is derived from the ex post...

The present study was focused on supply chain analysis of fresh guava in order to evaluate existing marketing supply chains (SC1: Producer - Consumer, SC2: Producer - Retailer - Consumer, SC3: Producer - Commission agent - Retailer - Consumer, SC4: Producer - Commission agent - Wholesaler - Retailer - Consumer) for two variety (allahabad safeda and apple guava) of guava. The gross marketing pri...

In this paper we introduce a page-based Lazy Release Consistency protocol called ADSM that constantly and efficiently adapts to the applications' sharing patterns. Adaptation in ADSM is based on our dynamic categorization of the type of sharing experienced by each page. Pages can be categorized as falsely-shared, migratory, or producer/consumer(s). Migratory and producer/consumer(s) pages are m...

This paper explores options for reforming Medicare cost sharing in an effort to provide better financial protection for those beneficiaries with the greatest health care needs. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), we consider how unified annual deductibles, alternative coinsurance rates, and a limit on out-of-pocket spending w...

Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology ensures protection of rights on distributed music over the Internet. Existing DRM systems emphasize the protection on Businessto-Consumer (B2C) distribution model, but pay very little attention on the protection of Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) distribution model – referring to peer-to-peer sharing. In this paper, we propose a license management model to ...