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Dubelaar, Chris; Ferrarin, David; Bhargava, Mukesh - 2002

Retail productivity measurement has commonly used ratios of outputs, such as sales, and input factors like capital and labour to measure different facets of productivity. However, these store-specific ratios are also likely to be influenced by other context-specific factors affecting the...

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Illustrating Probability through Roulette: A Spreadsheet Simulation Model

Seal, Kala Chand; Przasnyski, Zbigniew H - 2005

Teaching probability can be challenging because the mathematical formulas often are too abstract and complex for the students to fully grasp the underlying meaning and effect of the concepts. Games can provide a way to address this issue. For example, the game of roulette can be an exciting...

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Using time-independent analysis in optimizing inverter efficiency for grid-connected photovoltaic systems

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Optimizing Restaurant Reservation Scheduling

Feldman, Jacob - 2010

We consider a yield-management approach to determine whether a restaurant should accept or reject a pending reservation request. This approach was examined by Bossert (2009), where the decision for each request is evaluated by an approximate dynamic program (ADP) that bases its decision on a...

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Predictive Modeling of Alumni Donor Behavior

Prue, Lauren - 2010

response at a small, private university located within New England. The analysis utilized predictive modeling and data … donations, and which individuals will give consecutive gifts over several years. Statistical modeling builds on current research …

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One-Dimensional Radial Flow Turbomachinery Performance Modeling

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A Structural Model of Data Warehousing Success

Xu, Hongjiang; Hwang, Mark I. - 2008

Data warehousing is an important area of practice and research, yet few studies have assessed its practices in general and critical success factors in particular. Although plenty of guidelines for implementation exist, few have been subjected to empirical testing. Furthermore, no model is...

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