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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"return rates"”.
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Product Returns Management in Online Retail
… study the problem of predicting the product return rate using the products’ visual information. In online channels, products are returned at high rates. Shipping, processing, and refurbishing are so costly that a retailer’s profit is extremely sensitive to return rates. Using a large dataset …
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A preliminary investigation into effects of flipper banding on African penguins spheniscus demersus
… I do so by comparing the difference in yearly return rates as well as foraging trip durations of 100 individuals injected with a subcutaneous transponder only, and 100 that have both transponders and a stainless steel flipper band.
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Evaluation of a fall stocking of adult and intermediate largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) into two Ohio River embayments
… to: (1) evaluate the persistence and return of stocked bass to anglers' creel relative to that of wild largemouth bass, (2) estimate fidelity of stocked largemouth bass to embayment release sites, and (3) compare return rates and cost effectiveness of the two size classes used for …
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Predicting how the juvenile life-stages of anadromous Atlantic salmon Salmo salar influence their migration phenology and marine survival.
… aspects of their life cycle, such as growth rates and migration phenology, is crucially important. Salmon are an anadromous species that undertake a marine migration from freshwater to oceanic feeding grounds, returning as mature adults to their natal river to reproduce. Undertaking lengthy …
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Indirect effects of agricultural intensification on tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging behaviour, body condition, and physiology
… respond in terms of (i) foraging behaviours and return rates, (ii) body condition, and (iii) selected physiological responses (i.e. oxidative stress and feather corticosterone). Artificial nest-boxes were erected at each of 5 sites with varying levels of agricultural intensification in …
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The Effect of an Electronic Evaluation Questionnaire Format on the Return Rate From Field Supervisors.
… in gathering Level 3 data. The number of returns affects the amount of information available to the course personnel in creating a viable program that ensures the success of service members entering the occupational field and, ultimately, affecting the number of service members who remain …
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Principals' Preferences for Developmentally Appropriate and Traditional Practices in Georgia's Prekindergarten Program
… on the survey instrument. Data was analyzed and return rates, demographic data, frequencies and percentages for traditional and developmentally appropriate practices were presented separately. Responses to traditional and developmentally appropriate items were summed to create a traditional and …
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Customer Search and Product Returns
… retailers are challenged by frequent product returns. High return rates significantly decrease companies’ profit which makes the issue of managing product returns very important from the practical standpoint. Typically, practitioners study returns in connection with purchase decisions or as a …
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Habitat Use, Movements, and Exploitation of Striped Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass in Claytor Lake, Virginia
… and HSB; 2) seasonal movement patterns, movement rates, and emigration rates of STB and HSB; and 3) angler catch rates of STB and HSB in Claytor Lake. In general, STB and HSB used similar habitats throughout this study. However, HSB used warmer (2-3'aC) water than STB during spring of 2001 and …
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Contributions to Variable Selection in Complexly Sampled Case-control Models, Epidemiology of 72-hour Emergency Department Readmission, and Out-of-site Migration Rate Estimation Using Pseudo-tagged Longitudinal Data
… intervals. Our results showed that the staying rates, emigration/mortality rates, and immigration rates were approximately 50%. We also found that 44.1% of the limpets emigrate/die within their first 6-month time interval.</p> <p>In the third project, I investigated the most significant …
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A Carbon-Conscious Closed-Loop Bi-Objective p-hub Location Problem
… optimization, considering changes in demand and returns over time by incorporating a time dimension. The model's robustness and solving capabilities were tested for the case of electric vehicle (EV) battery supply chains. Demand for EVs is projected to increase by 18% annually, and robust supply …
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Three Essays In Applied Econometrics
… during the Great Recession, on mortgage default rates, as well as its monetary benefit to the government. I find that HARP led to a 71.6\% reduction in the total number of defaults and has saved the government US\$ 800 million. Furthermore, I also use the structural model to evaluate HARP under a …
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Integrating patients with intermittent claudication into an established cardiac rehabilitation programme: a feasibility study with embedded pilot
… of eligible patients, recruitment and retention rates, number of adverse events, and acceptability of trial and treatment procedures. Acceptability of the trial and treatment procedures was investigated through both quantitative data (e.g., return rates on questionnaires and exercise diaries) and …
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Large mammal resource depression and agricultural intensification: an empirical test in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico
… have argued that reductions in the energetic returns provided by wild resources led people in the past to devote more time to farming. Despite the popularity of this explanation, however, no one has tested the proposition that wild resource foraging efficiency declined in any archaeological …
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Sponsored brain drain? Examining the lived experiences of Ghanaian scholarship recipients and administrators' perspectives through capitals and a postcolonial lens.
… students funded by state scholarships do not return home after studying abroad. Using Ghana's scholarship programme to the United Kingdom as a case study, the research investigates why this occurs and how existing return arrangements operate in practice. Drawing on postcolonial theory and …
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Demography and Behavior of Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) Breeding on the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta, Alaska
… encounter for 237 males and 296 females. Overall return rates (individual returned to the site in a subsequent season) were lower for females (40%) than males (65%), as was apparent annual survival (± SE, females = 0.65 ± 0.05, males = 0.78 ± 0.03), and encounter rate (females = 0.51 ± 0.07, males …
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Service bulletin inventory management and modeling for aerospace parts in customer service organization
… of units in service and timing of units to be returned to UTC Aerospace Systems Repair, and part replacement rate estimates of certain components. Actual units returned, the timing of the returns, and the actual part replacement may vary from earlier estimates made by UTC Aerospace Systems …
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The efficacy of a newly developed method of controlled calcium carbonate introductions for anthropogenic acidification mitigation in a naturally acidic riverine environment
… diatoms and aquatic vii macroinvertebrates, evaluated as ecological quality ratios (EQRs). The CaCO3 represented little risk to the system in terms of hazardous inputs and three tonnes were introduced in controlled dosing over the course of nine months (2017). Observed negative effects …
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Population Ecology and Foraging Behavior of Breeding Birds in Bottomland Hardwood Forests of the Lower Roanoke River
… appeared equal in the two habitats. Annual return rates for plot immigrants vs. previous residents did not differ in swamps. In levees, newly arriving birds were less likely to return the following year than previous residents. Immigrants most likely occupied low quality sites and dispersed …
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The Effects of Workplace Financial Education on Personal Finances and Work Outcomes
… to workers and five were undeliverable. Usable return rates for the data analysis were 56.0% in the pre-assessment (262/471) and 40.0% in the post-assessment (189/477). Overall, the respondents in this study were somewhat positive toward financial management, were not knowledgeable on financial …
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