Marketplace Demand Research Articles

Developing Individual Flexibility Analysis Insistence Outlining

Manufacturing production refers to the methodology for most efficiently manufacturing products and goods for sale. To produce in the most efficient way possible, there are many variables that need to be considered. Many variables impact manufacturing production, such as the availability of raw materials, marketplace demand, labour costs, and inventory costs. Giving the clients the exact product with high quality is the biggest concern when it comes to the manufacturing process. There is a high probability of not meeting the expectations of clients after the production of the products. So before production, the client requirements need to be analysed and it should be checked whether they are possible or not, whether production can produce the products or not, and whether the budget to produce these products needs to be analysed too. This is why this project uses a machine-learning algorithm called logistic regression. Logistic regression estimates the probability of an event occurring, such as voting or not voting, based on a given dataset of independent variables. Since the outcome is a probability, the dependent variable is bounded between 0 and 1. This logistic regression algorithm helps in various ways in this project. After the production process, the products need to be checked for quality; if the quality meets the client's expectations, the products are sent to the client, or else the products are again sent to manufacturing to produce again, which also has to meet the client's expectations. Utilising the raw materials in an efficient way is a major key to efficient production. It should be done by assessing the client's requirements. This is basically done not to reject client requirements but to assess the impossible client requirements and convert them into a possible solution to the maximum extent possible, not to reject client requirements

Optimal design of reliability acceptance sampling plan based on constant‐stress accelerated life testing considering the uncertainty of accelerated factor

AbstractWith the increasing marketplace demand for decreasing test time and cost, constant‐stress accelerated life testing (CSALT) is widely used for reliability demonstration in practice. The existing accelerated acceptance sampling plans (AASPs) do not consider the uncertainty of accelerated factor (AF), which makes it difficult to accurately describe the producer's and consumer's risks. Previous AASP studies on CSALT were mainly carried out under a fixed accelerated stress level, and the influence of accelerated stress level is not concerned. Therefore, considering the uncertainty of AF and taking the lognormal distribution as an example, the AASP design method with time‐censoring is proposed, where the life‐stress relationship between the location parameter and stress level is expressed by an inverse power law model. First, considering the uncertainty of AF expressed by a distribution, the acceptance probability can be obtained by the mathematic expectation of conditional acceptance probability, and the producer's and consumer's risks can be accurately expressed. Then, to reduce the total cost furtherly, the accelerated stress level is considered as a new decision variable, the optimum AASP including the sampling plan and the decision‐making criterion can be designed by minimizing the total cost and solving the risk constraint equations of both sides. A real case study of white organic light‐emitting diodes is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Technical committees: Activities of the DEIS technical committee on "functional dielectrics"

Sensor and actuator applications have exploded in the last several decades and, along with their associated electronics and information processing systems, they are becoming ubiquitous in modern engineering devices and systems. The marketplace demand is huge and growing rapidly, with the global demand for all sensors predicted to exceed $280 billion by 2023 (BCC Research) and the overall actuator market projected to reach $75 billion by 2024 (MarketsandMarkets). Although the bulk of these revenue forecasts will be driven by existing/mature sensing and actuator products, there is ever increasing demand for new and novel sensing and actuation technologies. Key to the success in many emerging sensor and actuator application are state of the art energy creation, delivery and management systems (energy systems).

Materialising Markets: The Agency of Auctions in Emergent Art Genres in the Global South

For the last two decades, the international auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s have been at the forefront of global art market expansion. Their world-wide footprints have enabled auction house specialists to engage with emerging artists and aspiring collectors, most notably in the developing economies of the Global South. By establishing their sales infrastructure in new locales ahead of the traditional mechanisms of primary market commercial galleries, the international auction houses have played a foundational role in the notional construction of new genres of art. However, branding alone is not sufficient to establish these new markets; the auction houses require a network of willing supporters to facilitate and drive marketplace supply and demand, be that trans-locational art market intermediaries, local governments, and/or regional auction businesses. This paper examines emerging art auction markets in three Global South case studies. It elucidates the strategic mechanisms and networks of international and regional art auction houses in the development of specific genres of contemporary art: Hong Kong and ‘Chinese contemporary art’, Singapore and ‘Southeast Asian art’, and Australia and ‘Aboriginal art’. Through examination and comparison of these three markets, this paper draws on research conducted over the past decade to reveal an integral role played by art auctions in the expansion of broader contemporary art world infrastructure in the Global South.

Accelerating applications of robot’s in the supply chain management: A review

The leeway of robots in the Supply chain industry is gleaming. Creating a marketplace demand will keep on urging automation in SCM/robots sellers to enhance acceleration and carry propelled usefulness to the supply chain. Robotic system solution/arrangements convey an encouragement for patrons in the dissemination, warehousing, and assembling parts via computerizing cross-process-docking station, lay line-side conveyance, renewal, sorting case-picking, kitting, products to-individual, individual to-products, and larger than average/non-standard stock keeping units transportation. While robots have truly been fabricated and conveyed to play out a particular procedure or capacity, the steady condition of advancement in mechanical improvement will develop here. Robots have largely been removed physical manpower, performing practice and rigorous assignments. Such apprehensions are triggered by means of talented technologies with the aim of automate substantial tasks via robotics, intellectual tasks via artificial Intelligence, cognitive computing, and logistics work, transportation works, consumer repair/service jobs with the purpose of assortment from personal-help centre to big sized container terminals. Robots are not only a fascinating innovation for science ventures. In this review, the acceleration of robot in supply chain has been discussed and an attempt has been made to understand the advantage and application of the robot in the industries.

To Work at Clinics or at Hospitals? Analysis of Family Physician Recruitment Advertising in Taiwan.

Family physicians act as gatekeepers of the healthcare system and have an indispensable role in providing holistic care in the primary care system. While previous studies had focused on the geographic maldistribution of family physicians, the current study investigated the distribution of job opportunities for family physicians by analyzing recruitment advertisements posted in medical association journals, as an indirect way to observe the marketplace demand for physicians. We collected all the recruitment advertisements for family physicians in the twelve issues of the Taiwan Medical Journal, the official organ of the Taiwan Medical Association, in 2018. In contrast to 124 new trainees annually, 739 advertisements for family physicians were posted within the entire year. After eliminating repeated advertisements, there were 302 distinct advertisements, of which hospitals accounted for 18.9% (n = 57). The job opportunities at hospitals were offered mainly by regional hospitals (n = 26) and community hospitals (n = 29), but only two by medical centers. Family physicians in Taiwan were in great demand not only by primary care clinics but also by hospitals. The role of family physicians in hospitals is worth further study.

Optimal multi-product supplier selection under stochastic demand with service level and budget constraints using learning vector quantization neural network

In today’s competitive marketplace demand, evaluation and selection of suppliers are pivotal for firms, and therefore decision makers need to select suppliers and the optimal order quantities when outsourcing. However, there is uncertainty and risk due to lack of precise data for supplier selection. Uncertainty can impose shortage or overstocks, because of stochastic demand, to firms; in this case, considering inventory control is essential. In this research, an appropriate spatial model is developed for a multi-product supplier selection model with service level and budget constraints. Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network is used to find the optimal number of decision variables with the goal of maximizing the expected profit of supply chains. By analyzing a practical example and conducting sensitivity analysis, we find that corporate profit will be maximized if the optimal integration of suppliers and the optimal order quantities from each supplier is determined. In addition, budget and service level should be considered in the process of finding the best result.

Drainage water management effects on energy flux partitioning, evapotranspiration, and crop coefficients of corn

Over the past 20 years, marketplace demand for corn has prompted many farmers in the Red River Valley (RRV) of the north to include more corn in their crop rotations. With a very flat topography and heavy clayey soils, the RRV can have shallow water tables in the spring and fall but can be dry in the summer. Due to these field conditions, some farmers have installed subsurface drainage (SD) systems with structures for controlled drainage (CD, manage the water table in a field) and subirrigation (SI, add water to the field via the SD system) to improve corn production. In a CD + SI field, an eddy covariance system was used to measure and quantify energy flux components along with soil moisture content (SWC) and water table depth (WTD) measurements during four corn growing seasons in 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2017. The results show that the average SWC in 2012 was significantly different from the other three years. The SWC and WTD in 2016 were more stable compared to the other years. The CD practice had a positive effect during a wet year in 2013, which resulted in 26.7% higher yield than the county average. During the dry growing season of 2017, the use of subirrigation resulted in 6.6% higher yield than the county average. The corn evapotranspiration totals (ETa) were 468, 476, 551, and 537 mm for 2012, 2013, 2016, and 2017 growing seasons, respectively. The average crop coefficients were 0.49, 0.73, 0.88, 0.86, and 0.69 for the initial, development, tasseling, reproductive, and maturity stages, respectively. They were calculated from the daily ETa, values only from days with more than 45% of total available water in the root zone, and the ASCE-EWRI standardized grass-based reference evapotranspiration. This study showed that the SD along with the CD + SI system can be used for optimal water management of field corn during both wet and dry years.

How to Predict Marketplace Demand Quantities Using Volumetric Choice Experiments

Brand managers in packaged goods categories need to understand drivers of both primary and secondary demand (i.e., overall category and brand-specific demand) in order to improve product and pricing decisions. In the presence of variety seeking, primary demand may depend on the composition and size of an assortment (or choice set). Since choice-set size varies between stores, shopping trips and choice contexts, developing models that consider the effect of choice-set size on demand is important for categories with simultaneous demand for varieties (e.g., packaged goods). Larger choice sets not only increase the chance of finding an attractive product, but they also allow consumers to better satisfy their demand for variety. Therefore, we generally expect larger choice sets to result in (at least marginally) higher levels of primary demand. However, the relationship between assortment size and primary demand may heterogenous.Our proposed model builds on volumetric demand models and allows for flexible relationships between choice-set size and primary demand by introducing a location adjustment to the marginal utility of the outside good. The model yields better fit and predictions in the presence of choice-set size variation. Variation in choice set-size is particularly large when rand managers need to predict marketplace demand using choice experiments. While choice experiments involve choices from relatively small choice sets with 2-10 choice alternatives, marketplace offerings typically comprise 100 or more unique products or stock-keeping units. In our empirical application in the chocolate bar category, we find that our model significantly improves predictions of marketplace demand quantities. Our choice experiment comprised tasks with 8 and 18 choice alternatives, while the marketplace scenario consists of over 100 choice alternatives. While our model results in realistic market-level predictions, extant volumetric demand models overpredict demand by a factor of almost two.

COLLEGIATE SPORTS: ARE YOU A FAN?

ABSTRACT Having a large fan base for athletic events can improve the standing of a college or university with respect to its revenues, prestige, and student enrollment. Furthermore, with increasing attention and money being focused on collegiate athletics, colleges and universities are looking for ways to capitalize on the benefits of their athletic programs. While some large universities have already benefitted from the success of their athletic programs, smaller institutions face difficulties marketing their athletic programs and events. This paper explores the challenges faced by smaller colleges and universities as they attempt to realize the benefits of having strong marketplace demand for their athletic events. Sports marketing suggestions for improving fan attendance are also presented. Keywords Sports Marketing; Fan Segments; Small Collegiate Sports Marketing

Criticizing animal experimentation, at my peril.

Initiatives leading to even modest reduction in animal use at major U.S. universities are likely to continue to face strong opposition. At least, that's the conclusion the author draws from his efforts at Northwestern University. In fact, despite a growing body of evidence that animal-based research is flawed at best and misleading or un-scientific at worst its use is growing at Northwestern and elsewhere. Moreover, recent discoveries concerning animal consciousness and emotion have not led to notable improvements in the conditions in which AWA protected animals live at the Chicago vivarium. There, animals languish in featureless rooms or sterile cages without access to daylight and with little opportunity to express their natural behaviors and aptitudes. The writer's public exposure of these conditions led to a fierce backlash. Unless there is a significant change in laboratory and university culture, change will only come when the marketplace and funding agencies demand better and more reliable, non-animal models for the testing of drug toxicity and effectiveness.

ChemInform Abstract: Enhancement the Dissolution Rate and Solubility of Poorly Soluble Drugs: Review

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Improvise!™: Jazz Consultancy and the Aesthetics of Neoliberalism

Group musical improvisation represents a profoundly collaborative creative process. The improvised framework demands that musicians collectively and spontaneously negotiate a set of dynamic musical and non-musical challenges. Similarly, in the post-fordist global marketplace, unexpected challenges have become a quotidian part of the business experience. Just as a group of musical improvisers must negotiate sudden musical changes, unanticipated changes in the marketplace demand a collaborative creative response. 
 
 Since the early 2000s a wide variety of corporations have begun looking to group musical improvisation as a model for corporate design. Corporations ranging from Starbucks to Procter & Gamble to Research In Motion have hired improvising musicians to run seminars and workshops in order to develop more improvisatory – and more profitable – business practices. Complicating this narrative, however, is the ethic that is commonly attached to improvised musical practice: as numerous scholars have suggested, improvised musics frequently emerge from marginalized communities around the world, and often represent kinds of musicking that purposefully challenge the logics of the free market economy, especially in its present neoliberal guise. 
 
 In this article, I suggest that this species of arts-based consultancy - together with a huge and ever-expanding body of writing on "creativity" - operates to provide an aesthetic aspect to "creative" and "knowledge-based" labour in the postindustrial North American "knowledge economy," and by extension, to neoliberalism itself. I argue that this aestheticization of neoliberal economics threatens to occlude the profoundly socially destructive impact of the laissez-faire neoliberal regulatory regime that has taken hold of economic and social policy on an increasingly global scale over the last three decades. Finally, however, I explore how the lessons of improvisation studies might intervene in the corporate appropriation of improvisation.

Enhancement the Dissolution Rate and Solubility of Poorly Soluble Drugs: Review

The use of reduction and nucleation technologies in nanosize active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is as an enabling to bring improved drug products to the marketplace demand as well as for improved drug delivery. nanoPharmaceutical field represents a hopeful set of pharmaceutical materials offering the prospect of better alternatives to optimize drug physical properties and biopharmaceutical issues such as solubility, stability and bioavailability in pharmaceutical development without changing the chemical composition of the API, thereby, giving new patentable solid forms. With physically improved solid API may impact the the pharmaceutical intellectual property landscape. Nanoparticle formation is achievable in many ways, although primarily through particle reduction or through manipulation of the nucleation mechanism. Keywords: active pharmaceutical ingredient; drug delivery; ultra rapid freezing.

Identifying Unmet Demand

Brand preferences and marketplace demand are a reflection of the importance of underlying needs of consumers and the efficacy of product attributes for delivering value. Dog owners, for example, may look to dog foods to provide specific benefits for their pets (e.g., shiny coats) that may not be available from current offerings. An analysis of consumer wants for these consumers would reveal weak demand for product attributes resulting from low efficacy, despite the presence of strong latent interest. The challenge in identifying such unmet demand is in distinguishing it from other reasons for weak preference, such as general noninterest in the category and heterogeneous tastes. We propose a model for separating out these effects within the context of conjoint analysis, and we demonstrate its value with data from a national survey of toothpaste preferences. Implications for product development and reformulation are explored.

Identifying Unmet Demand

Brand preferences and marketplace demand are a reflection of the importance of underlying needs of consumers and the efficacy of product attributes for delivering value. Dog owners, for example, may look to dog foods to provide specific benefits for their pets (e.g., shiny coats) that may not be available from current offerings. An analysis of consumer wants for these consumers would reveal weak demand for product attributes due to low efficacy, despite the presence of strong latent interest. The challenge in identifying such unmet demand is in distinguishing it from other reasons for weak preference, such as general non-interest in the category and heterogeneous tastes. We propose a model for separating out these effects within the context of conjoint analysis, and demonstrate its value with data from a national survey of toothpaste preferences. Implications for product development and re-formulation are explored.

DATA WAREHOUSING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SKILLS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS GRADUATES: ANALYSIS BASED ON MARKETPLACE DEMAND

In an effort to keep information systems (IS) curriculum current with emerging technologies, this research reports the result of a survey of marketplace demand for database, data warehousing and business intelligence skills. Sample job and skills data were obtained from Dice.com’s online postings for jobs that required a bachelor’s degree in IS or equivalent qualifications. Cluster analysis revealed some skill overlap among the three job categories. Significant skills for each category of jobs, along with skill and vendor rankings, are reported.

Sustaining demand for medical nutrition therapy services: Are you meeting the requirements?

“If you keep on doing what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.” Embracing change and seeking out practice resources are critical aspects of achieving a successful dietetics practice and ensuring marketplace demand for medical nutrition therapy (MNT). Practitioners who have struggled to demonstrate the value of their services may not have sought out evidence-based guides for practice/protocols or implemented necessary systems to effectively provide MNT and create consumer demand. Practitioners who define gaps in nutrition services, determine their causes, design and implement improvements, assess their impact, and sustain and enhance improvements can impact their practice’s bottom line. Those who adopt the habit of seeking out and marshaling practice resources can maintain marketability for MNT services provided in the outpatient or private practice settings and help to position MNT for future coverage and reimbursement opportunities. This article was written by Dorothy Michalczyk, Communications Manager of the Quality Outcomes and Coverage team in Chicago, IL.

Matching electronic communication media and audit tasks

Increasing marketplace demand for real-time reporting of business information is inevitably leading to the requirement for more frequent assurance from auditors over the accuracy and reliability of such information. The frequency and speed with which auditors must provide assurance, coupled with the global dispersion of business clients, place more demand on the use of electronic communication media in all phases of the assurance process. However, there is little theoretical guidance concerning how to best match various electronic communication media representations to audit tasks. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to develop a media–task fit (METAFIT) model that can be used in future research endeavors, particularly for information inquiry tasks in judgment and decision-making. The METAFIT model specifies conditions and factors leading to an optimal bilateral (auditor–client) METAFIT, with the objective of maximizing task effectiveness.

N.Y. Residents Graduate Into Bountiful Job Market

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Education & TrainingFull AccessN.Y. Residents Graduate Into Bountiful Job MarketEve KupersaninEve KupersaninSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:21 Jun 2002https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.37.12.0032A new survey of graduating residents in New York state finds that there is great demand for psychiatrists fresh out of training programs in that state.In particular, child and adolescent psychiatrists finishing programs in New York received more job offers than any of their physician colleagues did.Researchers from the Center for Health Workforce Studies, which is based at the State University of New York at Albany, surveyed residents from 27 medical specialties graduating from programs in New York in spring 2001. They did so with the help of training directors and graduate medical education directors in university programs and hospitals across the state. They released their results in May.The researchers surveyed 4,407 medical residents in the final months of training and received 2,845 responses, for a 65 percent response rate. Among the respondents were 186 psychiatry residents, including 123 adult and 38 child psychiatrists. (The remaining respondents were in a variety of psychiatry subspecialty programs.)The findings provide a snapshot of graduating residents in New York. Researchers asked residents about their demographics, views of the job market, and practice plans.The survey showed that 44 percent of psychiatry respondents were women. There was a significant proportion of international medical graduates (IMGs), 63 percent, and 24 percent of them held temporary J-1 visas, which require that the physician return to his or her country of origin after training.Overall, psychiatry residents exiting programs in New York fared well in terms of career prospects. In particular, child and adolescent psychiatrists in New York had the highest mean number of job offers, with 5.4 per person. Residents completing adult psychiatry programs in New York received an average of 3.5 job offers each. Pathologists, in contrast, received only 1.6 job offers each, ranking last in this respect.Researchers asked residents to rate their perceptions of the national job market on a scale of -2 (no jobs on the national market) to +2 (many jobs on the market).Adult psychiatry residents in New York gave the national job market high marks (1.9), while child and adolescent psychiatrists felt nearly the same (1.8). Physicians in general surgery expressed the most pessimistic views of the national job market, giving it a score of .73.Other results from the survey were not as encouraging, however. Psychiatrists who had secured postresidency work reported that they expected to earn what they considered to be relatively low starting salaries. The expected median starting income for adult psychiatrists in New York last year was $120,000, while child and adolescent psychiatrists expected to earn $116,000 annually. Only primary care physicians reported a lower starting income than psychiatrists. Primary care physicians expected to make $109,500 after completing residency training. Radiologists in New York reported expecting the highest starting annual wages. They expected to earn $186,000.Edward Salsberg, M.P.A., executive director of the center, predicted that salaries for psychiatrists will increase along with demand for their services.“Even if you train the best psychiatrists in the world, if you don’t train enough of them, you will have serious problems with access to care,” he told Psychiatric News. “In particular, marketplace demand indicates that this country can use more child psychiatrists.”The high percentage of IMGs in New York psychiatry residency programs reinforced for Sidney Weissman, M.D., a former member of APA’s Committee on Workforce Issues, the vital role that IMGs play in that state. “In the absence of IMGs, health care in New York would grind to a halt,” he told Psychiatric News.Weissman said that while the survey results show that psychiatrists receive a relatively high number of job offers compared with other specialists, the nature of these jobs is not known. “It is true that every psychiatrist I know who graduates is employed—the question is, Do they like their jobs?”Weissman said it would be useful to gather information on the nature of the employment opportunities for early career psychiatrists. He suspects that the majority of job offers reflected in the New York survey are in the public sector, where the psychiatrists’ chief responsibility is medication management.“While there may be no shortage of jobs, these jobs may not be desirable for those psychiatrists who want to practice psychotherapy, for instance,” Weissman said. “These data warrant further investigation on the quality and number of jobs available to psychiatrists.”A copy of the report is posted on the Web site of the Center for Health Workforce Studies at chws.albany.edu. ▪ ISSUES NewArchived