Carrier aggregation and integration of heterogeneous networks allow the mobile user equipment to benefit from wider bandwidth and radio coverage of different access technologies. However, these technologies have increased handoff scenario probability through user equipment's mobility, leading to...

Road transportation has been the dominant mode for inland freight transportation for decades. Rail and waterways transportation are less frequently used alternatives, but in general more attractive from an environmental perspective. Even though many policies promoting the use of intermodal...

The article is concerned with competitive cost and availability estimates of complex engineering systems at the bidding stage of availability type support services contracts (CfA). Such estimates are important to calculate the best price that will win the contract in a competitive bidding...

Business decisions consider alternatives and make choices to further strategic business goals. Measures of business success are likely to be financial, including profit, revenue, sales, market share, cost of production, quality of products, innovative product development. Ethical decisions make...

The current study aims to compare the performance of state participation banks with the performance of private participation banks. This comparison is quite significant since both state participation banks have a very short history and Turkey is a model for the world in interest-free banking....

Purpose Information-facilitated product recovery system (IFPRS) has captivated industry attention and has developed into a matter of consideration among the researchers because of enhanced climate concerns, jurisdictive logics and societal liabilities. Although IFPRS implementation has become an...

Purpose The objective of the study is to develop a methodology to strategically rank store locations using criteria such as population, store site characteristics, economic considerations, competition and so on to select the most optimal retail convenience store location....