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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Product value"”.
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The effects of discount level and scarcity on the perceived product value in e-mail advertising
… in which affects four dimensions of perceived product value; social, emotional, price, and quality, which in turn, influences purchase intention and positive word of mouth. (N = 207) This study is based off of the Stimulus- Organism- Response (S-O-R) theory (Mehrabiann & Russell (1974). The …
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Indigenous knowledge for sustainable livelihoods: Evaluating non-timber forest product value chains for San communities in Northern Namibia
The commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been primarily promoted in the Global South for its potential to enhance subsistence and income opportunities for indigenous communities residing in or adjacent to forested areas. However, in practice, the traded NTFPs predominantly …
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Use of sire evaluations for first, all, and later lactations to predict lifetime profit functions of individual daughters
… on 176,902 individual cows. Low, medium and high values were used for lifetime product value and feed price. Lifetime product value was actual milk and fat production. Individual relative net income was deviated from contemporaries in the same herd and calving in the same year of first freshening.
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Operations improvements through non=value-added step reduction
… thesis demonstrates how factories can use the Value Stream Mapping method to reduce both direct and indirect labor cost components through a non-value-added step reduction. The principal objective of this internship was to identify instances of non-value-added work in a product value stream and …
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A multiple period combined optimization approach to sawmill production planning systems
Recent efforts on the development of production planning systems for sawmills have focused on combined optimization type solutions in a steady state market environment. This thesis focuses on developing a multiple period production planning system which responds to expected changes in product value …
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A Comparative Assessment of Methodologies for Solving Problems of Nonlinear Optimization in the Business Sector
… problem of nonlinear optimization to maximize product value for the most respondents to a product survey. A comparative approach considers five methods of obtaining maximal solutions in minimal time. Simulated annealing and exhaustive enumeration seek to provide a family of solutions. Creating …
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Intellectual property strategy : analysis of the flash memory industry
… in the flash memory industry are mapped to a product value chain, which is in turn mapped to an intellectual property value chain. We use a patent database analysis software IPVision in order to examine the patent portfolios of some of the memory chip companies. Analysis of the patent …
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Mechanically mediated trithiocarbonate addition to commodity polymers for a more circular economy
… mechanical force cause chain-scission and lower product value while simultaneously only working once, maybe twice before the material is useless. Studies to harness the chain-scission with functional groups have proved possible but limited. This study shows the effect of adding bis(BTTC) and …
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Make it Mine, Technology's affordance for self-expression
… among Generation Y has pushed e-media to where product value has been supplanted by personal need and the desire to 'make it mine.' This thesis examines the changes in need and desire for personal possessions. By analyzing Generation Y's communicative evolution and emotional relationships …
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Configuration, Coordination, Learning And Foreign Market Entry: A Study Of Canadian Software Companies Entering The United States
… an international configuration of their product value chains also had higher performance. A product value chain is a set of activities that create value in products for customers, and these companies based some of these activities in Canada and some in the United States.;The product entry …
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Integrating Product Functional and Decision-Making Models into a Single Survey to Better Understand Customer Requirements
In the evaluation of product value, many attributes have been identified as influential factors. Functionality is one factor considered important and of primary concern when designing a new product. However, the determination of good product functional design currently relies mostly on designer …
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The price sensitivity of industrial buyers to softwood lumber product and service quality: an investigation of the U.S. wood treating industry
The value-based approach to defining quality was used to investigate the value perceptions of softwood lumber treaters in the United States. Conjoint measurement techniques were used to estimate the trade-offs treaters make between quality enhancing attributes and price. Five intrinsic lumber …
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Characterising room temperature ionic liquids with acoustic wave devices
… behave in a Newtonian manner to determine the values of their square root viscosity-density product using small volumes. Values are compared to traditional viscometer and densitometer measurements. A range of harmonics were studied for a 5 MHz fundamental crystal. The frequency shift of the …
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Circular economy of fashion: benefits and challenges for French micro and small brands
… environmental and social concerns. Its complex value chain, from the intensive non-renewable resource use during raw material acquisition to human rights issues in manufacturing, and its unsustainable end-of-life solutions, underscores an industry struggling with profound challenges. In response …
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The Effect of Uncertain End-of-Life Product Quality and Consumer Incentives on Partial Disassembly Sequencing in Value Recovery Operations
… in the interaction between End-of-Life (EoL) product acquisition systems and disassembly sequencing. The research focuses on two remanufacturing research problems; 1) modeling uncertain EoL product quality, quantity, and timing in regards to EoL product acquisition and disassembly sequencing …
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Development of a Tool to Measure the Effectiveness of Kaizen Events within the Wood Products Industry
… to lower manufacturing costs and increase product value. Kaizen activities are one way that wood products companies can increase their competitiveness. Being able to measure the effectiveness of Kaizen events is important to factors that contribute to Kaizen effectiveness as well as …
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The impact of product familiarity on the price-perceived quality relationship
… use of price and intrinsic information in product quality assessments by differentially familiar buyers. Further, the impact of price and intrinsic information in evaluating monetary sacrifice, product value and purchase intention are examined. In particular, the impact of differing degrees …
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Engineering economic analysis of the quick-germ/quick-fiber modified dry grind ethanol fractionation process
… to periods of economic weakness because its product value varies with oil prices but its raw material (corn) varies with food prices. To improve the economic sustainability of corn-to-ethanol production, several modified dry grind processes had been developed at the lab scale. The Quick-germ …
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The design of a thiokol plant
… rubber situation included a recommendation for a production of 60,000 ton per year production of Thiokol by the end of 1943. Thiokol is a type of synthetic rubber formed by the reaction between organic dihalides and inorganic polysulfides. They find wide application where resistance to petroleum …
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