This paper investigates the impact of two Wal-Mart buy-American initiatives implemented in 1989 and abolished in 1992. Utilizing the data of a hat firm facing the choice of domestic production or losing all Wal-Mart sales, we formulated a model of the firm location decision given a subsidy. From this model, we were able to determine the necessary subsidy amount to induce a firm to produce domes...

Companies today have several major issues while managing information. Many subsidiaries and departments have developed their own Data Management which has led to a multitude of Operational Databases and sometimes a multitude of Data Marts, policies and processes. Thus, these systems lack sustainability because they are not dynamic and not self-organizing, and so they do not adapt to the continu...

The Internet has become an important medium for effective marketing and efficient operations for many institutions. Visitors of a particular web site leave behind valuable information on their preferences, requirements, and demands regarding the offered products and/or services. Understanding these requirements online, i.e., during a particular visit, is both a difficult technical challenge and...

M. Yıldız, K.Yakut, H. Bakış and A. Noels Ege University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Bornova, 35100 İzmir, Turkey Institute of Astronomy, Catholic University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 17100 Çanakkale, Turkey Institut d’Astrophysique et Géophysique, Université de ...

We present a preliminary study on how followers and non-followers of a popular CEO respond differently to a public apology by the CEO in Twitter. Sentiment analysis tool was used to measure the effect of the apology. We find that CEO’s apology had clear benefits in this case. As expected, it was more effective to followers than non-followers. However, followers showed a higher degree of change ...

A major factor hindering the exploration of adoptive immunotherapy in preclinical settings is the limited availability of tumor-reactive human T cells. Here we developed a humanized mouse model that permits large-scale production of human T cells expressing the engineered melanoma antigen MART-1-specific TCR. Humanized mice, made by transplantation of human fetal thymic tissue and CD34+ cells v...

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1 Dicle University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Physiology, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey 2 Dicle University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey 3 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Çanakkale, Turkey 4 Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, 21280, Diyarbaki...

Today companies need strategic information to counter fiercer competition, extend market share and improve profitability. So they need information system that is subject oriented, integrated, non volatile and time variant. Data warehouse is the viable solution. It is integrated repository of data gathered from many sources and used by the entire enterprise. In order to standardize data analysis...