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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Delivery service"”.
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Local delivery service opportunities in e-commerce
This is a study of the local package delivery industry. This thesis shall consider only businesses that are engaged in delivery of goods and services that have been purchased online. Such companies may or may not be engaged in other business activities aside from delivery. Local refers to …
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Improving access to chronic medicines through a last kilometre medicine delivery service in low-income communities: a case study from Cape Town, South Africa
In South Africa, access to healthcare services remains a considerable challenge, especially for low-income communities where transportation obstacles and prolonged waiting periods at healthcare facilities hinder prompt medical treatment. This study assessed a last kilometre home medicine delivery …
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The Impact of a Delivery Option in a Physical Retail Space on Shopper Likelihood
… addition of a technology purchasing option(e.g.service delivery option) made available to the customers in the physical retail stores, it could potentially influence the purchasing situation. In addition, retailers who provide a delivery service in-store may attract more customers and increase …
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Improving our understanding of the use of online food delivery services to access food prepared out-of-home
… can now also be accessed through online food delivery services. Although online food delivery services are globally established, there is limited public health knowledge about the prevalence of their use and factors influencing this, the sociodemographic characteristics of customers, and the …
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Specification and verification of the Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol
… function, in turn, makes use of an assured data delivery service. This service is provided by the Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (SSCOP), which resides in the ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL). A specification of the SSCOP has been developed in Estelle. In addition, testing modules …
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Designing A Document Delivery System For Ucf S Interlibrary Loan Department
… and providing information resources and services. The library strives to create an environment that encourages the pursuit of intellectual endeavors and the creation of new knowledge. In an endeavor to fulfill this vision, the Interlibrary Loan Department at the UCF main library wants to …
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Predictive modeling of fulfillment supply chain for delivery performance improvement
… year. To support such rapid growth, exceptional delivery performance is critical. As consumers become more demanding about delivery precision and as competitors offer increasingly faster options, NIKE is also focusing on initiatives around delivery service to achieve its targets and remain the …
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Institutionalization and innovation of instructional television at Carleton University
… is an exploration of a television based course delivery service and its role in bringing change to teaching and learning within a university environment. There are three primary questions for which answers are sought: whether the development of the service has caused change in instructional …
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A systems approach to improving patient safety through medical device purchasing
… can lead to wider consequences in the delivery of care. This study first builds a general knowledge base of current purchasing practice in a sample of NHS Trusts, which confirms the direction and guidance given by policy documents and literature as to the extent of the challenges faced …
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Standortplanung für einen privaten Paketdienstleister
… a location-planning-problem of a Polish parcel delivery service. The main objective of this task was to support the company in a long-term strategic investment decision by applying modern operation research techniques. From a mathematical point of view it is an application of a …
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Customer Choice Models in Emerging Retail Markets
… settings. We first consider subscription box services in which a provider selects the assortment of products to include in the box by taking into account the customer's preferences. Customers interested in purchasing a product choose between engaging in searching physical stores or subscribing …
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Implications of Advanced Technologies on Rural Delivery
… integrates the strengths of individual emergent delivery technologies with package characteristics, and rural community needs to meet the demand for equitable, accessible, and inclusive rural delivery that is also cost-effective. To find ways to meet the package delivery service needs in rural …
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Enhanced communication services for many-to-many multicasting using XTP
… multicast model offers best-effort many-to-many delivery service but no guarantees. One-to-many and many-to-many services will become more important in the future. Reliable multicast transports add delivery guarantees, not necessarily like those of reliable unicast TCP, to the group-delivery …
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A Study on Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence and Text Clustering to Support Vendors
… Last Mile’s feedback systems to enhance the Delivery Service Partner experience. Our specific focus is on the effectiveness of clustering algorithms like DBSCAN and K-Means for grouping text feedback based on semantic similarity and on the employment of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) …
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Control of mobile networks using dynamic vehicle routing
This thesis considers the Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem (DPDP), a dynamic multi-stage vehicle routing problem in which each demand requires two spatially separated services: pickup service at its source location and then delivery service at its destination location. The Dynamic Pickup and …
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Data-driven task allocation for multi-robot deliveries
… model is representative of a multi-robot mail delivery service, in which teams of robots would have to cooperate to pick up and deliver packages in an environment. We provide a framework for task allocation, planning, and control of the system and analyze task switching as a method for …
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Case study: changing perceptions of the value of driver safety
… behaviours to risk within a major retail online delivery service in which I am employed, Tesco Dot.com, as part of a wider set of interventions designed to inform the company workforce of developments, policy and practice in this area. Researching from an insider practitioner-manager perspective, …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de un centro de distribución y almacén de productos de primera necesidad que ofrezca el delivery a través de una aplicación móvil
… for the implementation of a staple food delivery service where a large part of the supply chain is handled and supported by through a mobile application. A market study was carried out for which primary and secondary sources were used, applying a survey to analyze population statistics …
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Simulated annealing algorithm for customer-centric location routing problem
… to find better ways to deliver faster. Faster delivery times can be achieved by using an optimization model to plan delivery network and operations. Typically, this optimization model has been based on minimizing cost. However, in the current market, lowest cost is not necessarily the best …
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Evaluate innovative strategies leveraging existing USPS capabilities and resources to advance as a vital 21st century service organization
by providing universal delivery service. The Second Machine Age has ushered in a new digital economy, which is transforming the way the world communicates and conducts business. Consequently, USPS faces unprecedented challenges, including nearly a decade of declining mail volume and inflexible …
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