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Showing 1 to 20 of 181 for “"Consumer Products"”.
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Digital Strategy for Consumer Products
There has been a bifurcation in the consumer goods sector. Many of the most successful players of the past century have used a traditional retail strategy to develop and sell manufactured products. However, in the past decade, the success of digital upstarts has instigated a shift in marketplace …
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Forecasting consumer products using prediction markets
Prediction Markets hold the promise of improving the forecasting process. Research has shown that Prediction Markets can develop more accurate forecasts than polls or experts. Our research concentrated on analyzing Prediction Markets for business decision-making. We configured a Prediction Market …
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SKU stratification methods in the consumer products industry
… Analysis) to the data of a company in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. The factors considered were velocity, volatility, and profit margin. Our research indicates that the Analytical Hierarchy Process is the most viable and comprehensive method for stratifying SKUs. It allows for a …
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Trade flow of U.S. recalled consumer products: a gravity model analysis
… the hypothesis that the trade flow of recalled products and harm caused by recalled products will conform to economic theory in a similar way as the flow of goods in general. A Bergstrand-based gravity model is used in the analysis. My application uses a novel data set that includes measures of …
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Release of Silver from Nanotechnology Consumer Products and Potential for Human Exposure
… realistic exposure levels from the use of consumer products are still largely unknown. The objective of this work was to characterize the release of silver and silver- containing particles during the normal use of silver nanotechnology consumer products. Specific objectives were to review …
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The utilization of power converters in consumer products for distributed reactive power support
The introduction of smart meters to residential customers opens the door to feedback which can be used to improve the nation's power grid. The motivation of this research lies in the use of emerging smart grid devices to supply reactive power as a means of distributed reactive power support. Such …
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Technology strategy of competing with industrial design in markets of high-tech consumer products
… firms that compete in markets of high-tech consumer products. The initial intuition is that the role of industrial design becomes more important at mature stages of the product evolution cycle. Industrial design makes products more user-friendly and attractive, which are highly valued by …
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Analyzing the accountability, systems and efficiency of demand planning processes in a consumer products environment
As consumer products companies like P&G strive to achieve a consumer driven supply network, the value of forecast accuracy comes into question. Many companies push for faster cycle times and shorter supply chains, driving towards make-to-order production. These trends may appear to reduce the …
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Improving efficiency in product and process development : a case study on a consumer products creation process
… an idea generated to the time when the final products launch takes eighteen months. While this system is set up due to historical reasons, forward looking management teams in the industry see a lot of inefficiencies in it, especially when athletic footwear becomes more and more fashion driven. …
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Application of Automated Facial Expression Analysis and Facial Action Coding System to Assess Affective Response to Consumer Products
Sensory and consumer sciences seek to comprehend the influences of sensory perception on consumer behaviors such as product liking and purchase. The food industry assesses product liking through hedonic testing but often does not capture affectual response as it pertains to product-generated (PG) …
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An informatics approach to prioritizing risk assessment for chemicals and chemical combinations based on near-field exposure from consumer products
… human toxicity. Not even those used in everyday consumer products, and known to have widespread exposure in the general population, have been screened. Toxicity screening is time-consuming, expensive, and complex because simultaneous or sequential exposure to multiple environmental stressors can …
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Translating plant protein benefits to consumer products: physicochemical, technological and nutritional aspects of utilising plant protein ingredients for cereal food applications
… protein-foods in convenient formats with high consumer acceptance. In a fundamental bread application study, several plant-based HPIs (derived from cereals, potato, legumes) were screened for their baking performance in high-protein breads (> 20% of calories provided by protein). Based on the …
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An investigation of the effects of mood, type and level of involvement characterizing consumer products and message framing on advertising effectiveness
… attitudinal judgments toward advertisements and products. The purpose of experiment one was to examine whether the type (cognitive or affective) and level (high or low) of involvement that characterize consumer products moderate the effects of mood (positive or negative) on the processing and …
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An evaluation of influences of employee and customer satisfaction on the marketing positioning of consumer products: a case study of Starbucks coffee company in Qatar
When employees are satisfied with their work, they contribute towards the company's effective functioning to the best of their potential, leading to enhanced customer satisfaction. This research evaluates the influences of employee and customer satisfaction on the market positioning. The study uses …
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Tailoring the (bio)activity of polymeric and metal oxide nano- and microparticles in biotic and abiotic environments
… such as tissue engineering as well as in consumer products, which has boosted extensive research towards developing predictive paradigms of their (bio-)activity. The core hypotheses which are tested in the four interrelated studies of this work is that the (bio-)activity of the particles …
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Formaldehyde mass-transfer properties study
… and manufacture, is widely present in numerous consumer products. Emitted by many types of consumer products and indoor materials, indoor air can contain high concentrations of formaldehyde. Exposure to formaldehyde is hazardous to human health. Thus knowledge of formaldehyde mass-transfer …
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A study of some aspects of the use of management accounting for achieving an effective control of costs in some firms of the South African flexible packaging industry
… of flexible packaging for a very wide range of consumer products, they form part of the cost structure of these consumer products. The cost of flexible packaging is dependent upon a number of factors, such as the cost of the many different types of raw materials supplied to the converters and …
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