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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"product usage"”.
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The societal and environmental impacts of the skincare industry : a case for innovation
… ideals that are meant to influence consumers' product choices. Skincare products are unevenly regulated, and many formulations contain chemicals that harm individuals' health and end up in toxic landfills and watersheds. Skincare companies offer products with ingredients that are not verified …
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An informatics approach to prioritizing risk assessment for chemicals and chemical combinations based on near-field exposure from consumer products
… 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 affect …
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A systems engineering methodology for fuel efficiency and its application to a tactical wheeled vehicle demonstrator
… analysis of design space, development of product concepts, and prototype verification. Tools and methods used included requirements tradespace definition, provisional baseline product models, decomposition of energy expenditure over the product usage cycle, structured technology market …
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Data-driven methodologies for decision making in engineering design
In the product development process, customer needs are essential to develop the product concepts. These concepts are crucial because the subsequent stages in the process are dependent on the selected concepts. Customer needs are conventionally gathered via survey-based methods, which may require …
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Improving product availability in hospitals : the role of inventory inaccuracies
… inventory management processes and improve product availability. This research investigates the role of inventory inaccuracies, i.e., mismatches between book inventory and physical inventory on hand, as drivers of product availability in hospitals. The research objectives are three-fold: (1) …
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Fostering a More Sustainable World through Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: The Role of Perceived Value in a Circular Economy
… we have also witnessed an increase in demand for products. Although our resources are limited, consumers' needs know no bounds. It is not surprising that we are also increasingly demanding more from our environment. It is therefore imperative that we make better use of our resources and reassess …
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In vitro screening of Trametes versicolor and Acacia nilotica derivatives for antimalarial efficacy
… drug discoveries have derived from natural products (e.g. quinine and artemisinin derivatives). New natural product usage has diminished during the past few decades as a result of advances in molecular target detection and high-throughput screening technologies. Technical difficulties …
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From now to next – Three essays on consumer responses to innovative technology-driven business models
… in the realm of customization, that is, internal product upgrades (i.e., offering fee-based access to originally built-in, but deliberately restricted, optional features). Using a conceptual approach, Essay 1 provides a framework for understanding how internal product upgrades will likely …
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Equilibrium Implications of Social Utility and Reference Dependence
… first essay looks at the fashion industry, where product demand is largely driven by consumers' desire to signal their social status through product usage, and theoretically explains why fashion hits appear to be randomly created. The fashion industry is characterized by its unpredictability and …
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Data analysis and simulation for warranties and golf handicaps
… is used as an important element of marketing products as a better warranty typically signals higher product quality to customers. Much recent research on modeling and optimization of servicing costs for Non-Renewing Free Replacement Warranties (NR-FRW) assumes that the consumers' usage profile …
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Data-driven design for industrial applications
… design has become essential for developing products that truly meet user needs. This dissertation leverages emerging data sources and analytics to inform industrial product design, addressing limitations of traditional methods (e.g. surveys and focus groups) that are often slow, costly, and …