In 1999 the Food Industry Management Program at Cornell conducted a study of produce buyers and shippers which was sponsored by the Produce Marketing Association in Newark, Delaware. Although the study was conducted for the produce industry, it can serve as a demonstration of how retail buyers' operating practices are impacting our agricultural producers and middlemen. Two findings in the repor...

Tariffs can create allocative inefficiencies that reduce national income. There is thus a legitimate presumption that high average levels of tariffs are a poor policy choice. However, tariffs can also be used to raise national income provided the appropriate industry is chosen for protection. Examples include Paul Krugman’s (1987) model of learning-by-doing and Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Help...

Manusia hanya akan menerima, menghindari, maupun mencegah risiko yang kemungkinan terjadi. Hal ini menghasilkan sebuah pengalihan dilakukan dengan cara menggunakan asuransi laut. General average merupakan kerugian disepakati oleh para pihak untuk ditanggung bersama dan pertanggungjawaban tersebut dipikul antara pihak. Average Adjuster penilai ditunjuk perusahaan dalam menangani klaim peristiwa ...

The concept of average degree-eccentricity matrix ADE(G) of a connected graph $G$ is introduced. Some coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of ADE(G) are obtained, as well as a bound for the eigenvalues of ADE(G). We also introduce the average degree-eccentricity graph energy and establish bounds for it.

INTRODUCTION There is little evidence regarding the influence of conflicts of interest on preclinical research. This study examines whether industry sponsorship is associated with increased risks of bias and/or effect sizes of outcomes in published preclinical thiazolidinedione (TZD) studies. METHODS We identified preclinical TZD studies published between January 1, 1965 and November 14, 2012...

Test managers use intelligent predictors to increase testing efficiency and to decide on when to stop testing. However, those predictors would be impractical to use in an industry setting, unless measurement and prediction processes are automated. Prest as an open source tool aims to address this problem. Compared to other open source prediction and analysis tools Prest is unique that it collec...

The determination of the optimal carrying capacity procurement of rail and shipping services in the automobile intermodal network with unique characteristics is essential to save automobile delivery cost. In this research we develop a two-stage stochastic programming model for the tactical-level decision problem arising in the special automobile intermodal network. Furthermore, we improve the s...

The JAEA and JLAB energy-recovery IR free-electron lasers (ERL-FEL) have successfully demonstrated their capabilities of a sub ps pulse, high efficiency, GW high peak power, kW average power, and wide tunability. Utilizing the high power FEL and ERL technologies, we could realize a more powerful and more efficient FEL than 20kW and 25%, respectively, for nuclear industry, pharmacy, medical, def...

In knowledge-based economy, knowledge has a public good and non-rivalry nature. Firms build their own knowledge stock not only by means of internal R&D and collaboration with partners, but also by means of previously spilled over knowledge of other firms and public research laboratories (such as universities). Firms based on their absorptive capacity, and level of intra-industry and extra-indus...