The WWW increasingly allows people to create and update content for public access. Some of this information is collaboratively owned (created and maintained), while other information is privately owned and maintained (but still publicly accessible). Whereas it is unethical to modify the former for covert communication, it is quite legitimate to do so with the latter, and this paper gives a desi...

INTRODUCTION Food pricing policies to promote healthy diets, such as taxes, price manipulations, and food subsidies, have been tested in different settings. However, little consensus exists about the effect of these policies on the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods, on what foods consumers buy, or on the impact of food purchases on consumer health outcomes. We conducted a systematic r...

Keywords: Approximate dynamic programming Artificial neural networks Cross-price elasticity Markdown optimization Dynamic pricing Aggregation a b s t r a c t Markdown policies for product groups having significant cross-price elasticity among each other should be jointly determined. However, finding optimal policies for product groups becomes computationally intractable as the number of product...

The WWW increasingly allows people to create and update content for public access. Some of this information is collaboratively owned (created and maintained), while other information is privately owned and maintained (but still publicly accessible). Whereas it is unethical to modify the former for covert communication, it is quite legitimate to do so with the latter, and this paper gives a desi...

Substantial accumulation of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is documented in tissues of all six of the common species of giant clams (Tridacnidae). Results include measures of DMSP concentrations in siphonal mantle, byssal mantle, adductor muscle, and gill tissues obtained by gas chromatography of alkalized extracts plus evidence of DMSP from mass spectrometry. Formation of dimethylsulfide (D...

Dairy is highly regulated in many countries for several reasons. Perishability, seasonal imbalances, and inelastic supply and demand for milk can cause inherent market instability. Milk buyers typically have had more market power than dairy farmers. Comparative production advantages in some countries have led to regulations and policies to protect local dairy farmers by maintaining domestic pri...

Senior managers in retail industry make important decisions upon assortment planning, product pricing, and product promotion. While product assortment is a strategic decision taken over a long-term planning period (Kök et al., 2006), the latter two are both strategic and tactical: they can be used in dayto-day marketing decisions to dynamically adjust to demand variations. Within the food retai...

Pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal] is the largest edible fruit native to North America. The species range covers 26 states in the U.S., extending from northern Florida to southern Ontario and as far west as eastern Nebraska. Pawpaw fruits were traditionally consumed by Native Americans, then by European explorers and settlers. Today, pawpaws are consumed by local populations in rural areas fro...

Chestnuts were collected either every 7 days from suspended nets used to intercept the fruits, every 2 days from the ground or every 7 days from the ground. Nuts were visually inspected after collection for the presence of exit holes of the chestnut weevil (Curculio elephas) and the chestnut moth (Cydia splendana), and 20 nuts per sampling and tree were bisected to assess fungal colonization. A...

Manufacturing organizations seek to effectively integrate diverse service participants and their resources into a synthesized activity and also to make use of available assets efficiently. In pursuit of these goals companies follow a common strategy of implementing what are called “Best Practices” in the supply chains. Our aim is to examine if the best practices proposed for the manufacturing s...