The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, state and local health departments, and other partners will observe National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) during December 6-12, 2015, with educational and promotional activities across the country.

In this paper, we consider the application of the Lotka–Volterra model with churn effects, LVch, (Guidolin and Guseo, 2015) to the case of a confectionary product produced in Italy and recently commercialized in a European country. Weekly time series, referring separately to quantities of regular and promotional sales, are available. Their joint inspection highlighted the presence of compensato...

The purpose of assurance activities is to reduce risk, thereby ensuring requirements. However, assurance activities incur costs such as budget, schedule, mass ( e g , radiation shielding), etc. The selection of assurance activities to perform is thus an assurance optimization problem. For example, for a given budget, selection of the set of assurance activities that will minimize risk (i.e., ma...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) bans all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. The comprehensiveness of this ban has yet to be tested by online social networking media such as Facebook. In this paper, the activities of employees of the transnational tobacco company, British American Tobacco, (BAT) on Facebook and the...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that influence implementation, support and inhibition promotional activities carried out by human resources in tourist villages Indonesia increase loyalty. descriptive research method describes state related formulation problem. Data collection techniques through primary data (observation interviews) secondary (library study). findings indicat...