Suppose two Matisse paintings with identical characteristics were put up for sale. However, one of the paintings had previously been sold in a “hot” market for a high price and the other had been sold in a “cold” market for a low price. Would the painting that previously sold in the “hot” market fetch a higher price at auction? Anchoring is one of the most powerful and well-established biases i...

With an aim to resolve the problem of the increasing costs of supply chain in Manufacture Company, an integrated supply chain management model, driven by market demand, is brought forward in this paper, based on the analysis of existing integrated models of supply chain. The management model integrates purchase, production and sale plans with logistics plans used JIT. In order to build an integ...

“ProMeris was one of the many products that Pfizer brought into its portfolio when we acquired Wyeth/Fort Dodge Animal Health,” says Jim Brick, director and team leader of U.S. marketing for Pfizer Inc. “We have completed a thorough review and evaluation of the strategic fit into the Pfizer Animal Health portfolio, and have made the decision to discontinue the manufacture and sale of Promeris f...

Electricity markets are systems for affecting the purchase and sale of electricity using supply and demand to set energy prices. Electricity can be traded in organized markets or by negotiating forward bilateral contracts. Demand response (DR) refers to participation by customers in electricity markets, seeing and responding to prices as they change over time. Customers may adopt several basic ...

Hedgers located far from organized commodity exchanges suffer a mismatch between their local prices and exchange prices. Futures and options traded on the exchange may still be valuable to distant hedgers, but only to the extent that basis risk is small. Forward contracting allows hedgers to manage risk using a local delivery price, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has long banned t...

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The influence of the pharmaceutical industry on academic medicine is pervasive. Almost 90% of authors published in the Journal of the American Medical Association have received research funding from, or acted as a consultant for, a drug company. Rising to this challenge, editors of medical journals have agreed strict rules on reporting sponsorship and conflicts of interest. Academic psychiatry ...

This paper presents a new version of fuzzy support vector machine to forecast the nonlinear fuzzy system with multi-dimensional input variables. The input and output variables of the proposed model are describedas triangular fuzzynumbers. Thenby integrating the triangular fuzzy theory andv-support vector regression machine, the triangular fuzzy v-support vector machine (TFv-SVM) is proposed. To...