BACKGROUND The hazards of cigarette smoking and its increasing consumption are well known despite the ongoing tussle between the tobacco industry and global governments. To curb the menace of smoking, anti-smoking laws have been enforced from time to time by various governments. In 2003, Ministry of Health (MoH) Government of Pakistan has imposed certain regulations on cigarette manufacturing i...

The sharing economy is continuously changing the hospitality industry while competing with incumbent businesses over the available market share. This study examines the peer-to-peer renting service Airbnb. In particular, we investigate how social motives, trust, and perceived risk of private and business customers, alter the accommodation provider’s intention to accept a booking request. Unders...

Some recent large scale studies on residential networks (ADSL and FTTH) have provided important insights concerning the set of applications used in such networks. For instance, it is now apparent that Web based traffic is dominating again at the expense of P2P traffic in lots of countries due to the surge of HTTP streaming and possibly social networks. In this paper we confront the analysis of ...

The dissertation considers the heterogenity of firms. It consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. In the theoretical part it is examined to what extent asymmetries between customers have an impact on firm behavior. In the empirical part, the author analyzes the level of heterogeneity of firm performance within industries. Chapter 1 introduces the reader into the topic of firm heterogene...

We consider how to partition arriving customers into service groups that will be served separately , in a rst-come rst-served manner, by multi-server service systems having a provision for waiting, and how to assign an appropriate number of servers to each group. We assume that customers can be classiied upon arrival, possibly according to their service requirements. We model the congestion exp...

The study theoretically supports financial institutions regarding risk which can criminally proceed against customers, expose willfully default-financial or not? FIO, 2001 and judgments of Apex Courts have privileges i.e. fiscal recovery suits under 2001, Code Civil Procedure (1908-Act, V), Criminal (1898-Act, V) judgements Courts. These are the domains on Willful Default risk. Overall results ...

Customers agent sent into the network for shopping are always faced with some complex choices of products, prices and brands. This paper presents a supporting scheme to solve the problems faced by agent in decision making in purchasing online products. Our model consist consists of negotiating semantic for customer and merchant agent with possible advise in accordance to the user preferences an...

Large corporations often have different subunits sharing common customers, yielding distributed customer databases. Corporate risk and marketing functions seek areas where there is unusuaiiy high risk, or where one can target market. ‘We present a three-phase process to solve this problem. First, we merge the distributed databases using decision tree induction into a database of unique customer...