This study examines how household members' personal characteristics and key marketing factors affect the healthfulness of food purchased for in-home consumption; it further considers how food intake changes following a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes in the household. Using a combination of grocery...

When a product disappears from the store, one usually assumes the manufacturer has decided to cease production, which is commonly referred to as product elimination. With the increasing power retailers have on product line-ups, however, product removal decision could be entirely driven by...

In a controlled field experiment, we examine pairs of auctions for identical items under different conditions. We find that auction design features that are under the control of the auctioneer - including information transparency, number of simultaneous auctions, and the degree of overlap...

In a controlled field experiment, we examine pairs of auctions for identical items under different conditions. We find that auction design features that are under the control of the auctioneer — including information transparency, number of simultaneous auctions, and the degree of overlap...

We build an econometric model of a household's purchase incidence and brand choice decisions in complementary product categories to account for cross-category dependence in demand. Complementarity is modeled as the additional utility that a household derives from the joint consumption of brands...

In order to reveal the explosion effects of LPG/DME blended gas at the microscopic level and to investigate its explosion mechanism, the UC San Diego 2016 C1-C4/DME pyrolysis and oxidation mechanism model was adopted to carry out a numerical investigation. The results show that the adiabatic...

Cloud manufacturing task scheduling (CMTS) gains widespread attention in the cloud manufacturing (CMfg) community. At present, most related researches are mainly aimed at task-oriented scheduling and there are few researches considering user’ characteristics, like user preferences. In this...