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This paper discusses the energy savings that could be obtained in Sweden by instituting specific standards for five appliances: Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. At the present time, Sweden has no minimum energy efficiency standards for residential...
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networks through a framework of network preferences when seeking career-related advice with specific focus on three key … men’s and women’s network preferences. I find that both men and women most prefer seeking advice from same-sex multiplex … personal networks because it highlights the complex psychology that drive network preferences regarding gender-based homophily …
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This paper explores the differences that can exist between individual and aggregate loss guarantees in an environment where guarantees are only provided at an aggregate level. The focus is on understanding which traffic parameters are responsible for inducing possible deviations and to what...
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In order to improve the security of customer data, the credit card companies have come together to create a security standard, called Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which involve mandatory requirements for merchants that accept credit card transactions. All restaurants...
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We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold … illustrate these interdependencies we outline how the impact of an actor targeted by a change agent spreads through the network …
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these two strategies, including the creation of a bridge network communication infrastructure. The study disclosed other …
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accommodate usersdemand. In this dissertation research, the problem of nonparametric and Moment-Based estimations of network flow … this approach, particularly suitedfor mixture distributions that appear in real network traces, is also considered. Lastly …, estimation of traffic characteristic acrossthe network and sampling allocation problem is studied. The proposed approaches are …
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Why is the economy “complex”? For all the recent advances in the management sciences, businesses today face markets full of unexpected events, from cascading failures of lending institutions to speculative investment and the explosive growth of tech firms. In this talk, I argue that the...
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Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...
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The body of literature surrounding emotional labor, defined as service employees’ effort to manage their emotions to meet organizational goals (Hochschild, 1983; Morris & Feldman, 1996), exhibits a severe lack of studies examining intercultural service encounters (i.e., service episodes in which a...
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