EXPRESS: Frequency versus Intensity: How Thinking of a Frequent Consumption Indulgence as Social versus Solitary affects Preferences for How to Cut Back

Many consumers engage in frequent consumption indulgences. Because such indulgences accumulate resource costs (e.g., money, calories), consumers are often prompted or need to cut back, posing questions for how to design cut-back programs with consumer appeal. This research distinguishes between frequent indulgences that consumers think of as social (vs. solitary), demonstrating that thinking of an indulgence as social (vs. solitary) decreases preferences to cut “frequency” (how often the indulgence occasion occurs) and increases preferences to cut “intensity” (choosing a within-category substitute that involves lower resource expenditure). These effects are explained by differentiating between enjoyment from the product itself versus enjoyment from aspects outside the product. Thinking of an indulgence as social (vs. solitary) heightens anticipated enjoyment particularly for aspects outside of the product, decreasing interest in cutting the number of occasions (cutting frequency) and increasing interest in cutting back on the product itself via a within-category substitute (cutting intensity). This divergence in cut-back preferences for social (vs. solitary) experiences is thus eliminated: 1) when consumers think of social experiences with distant (vs. close) others, which involve lower enjoyment outside of the product, or 2) when solitary experiences primarily involve heightened enjoyment for aspects outside of the product.

A Study of Derivative Market in India

The development of the market for subsidiaries items, most quite advances, fates and choices, can be followed back to the readiness of hazard disinclined financial specialists to watch themselves against vulnerabilities emerging out of vacillations in resource costs. Subordinates are hazard the board instruments, which get their worth from a hidden resource. Costs in a coordinated subordinates market mirror the view of market members about the future and lead the cost of fundamental to the apparent future level. As of late the Derivative business sectors have acquired significance as far as their essential part in the economy. The expanding interests in stocks (homegrown just as abroad) have pulled to my advantage here. Various investigations on the impacts of fates and alternatives posting on the hidden money market unpredictability have been done in the created markets. The subordinate market is recently begun in India and it isn't known by each financial backer, so SEBI needs to find ways to make mindfulness among the financial backers about the subsidiary portion. In real money market the benefit/loss of the financial backer relies upon the market cost of the basic resource. The financial backer may cause gigantic benefit or he may bring about tremendous misfortune. In any case, in subsidiaries portion the financial backer appreciates gigantic benefits with restricted drawback. Subordinates are for the most part utilized for supporting reason. To expand the subsidiaries market in India, SEBI should overhaul a portion of their guidelines like agreement size, support of FII in the subordinates market. More or less the examination illuminates the subordinates market.

Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis on the Adoption of Environmental Practices: Exploring Technological- and Human-Resource-Based Contributions

Our main objective was to analyze which paths can lead to the adoption of environmental practices (PRAC) in firms, for which we developed three original alternative research models. Model 1 involves five sources for the adoption of environmental practices: human resource costs, organizational learning capability, firm size, manager educational level and manager experience. Model 2 adopts five sources for PRAC: human resource costs, information technology support, firm size, manager educational level and manager experience. Finally, Model 3 adopts six sources for PRAC: human resource costs, organizational learning capability, information technology support, firm size, manager educational level and manager experience. Therefore, Model 1 uses the organizational learning capability for PRAC, Model 2 uses the information technology support for PRAC and Model 3 uses both organizational learning capability and information technology support for PRAC. We used a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis on 349 small- and medium-sized Portuguese firms in twelve industrial sectors. The results show that organizational learning capability (OLC) and information technology support (ITS) are important sources for the development of PRAC. In this line, the three research models show that there are different pathways that lead to PRAC. These research models also show pathways that lead to the absence of PRAC. Therefore, the qualitative findings show the relevancy of OLC and ITS to PRAC. In addition, our findings indicate that, by focusing on variables such as OLC, a firm can find more paths that lead to PRAC. Additionally, with the combination of OLC and ITS, it must be taken into account that only developing ITS without OLC is riskier when obtaining PRAC.

Roadside Unit Deployment Mechanism Based on Node Popularity

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) can significantly improve the driving conditions of vehicles, but the mobility characteristics of vehicles put forward higher requirements for the robustness of the IoV system. As an important component of the IoV, the deployment of RoadSide Unit (RSU) directly influences the service performance of the IoV system to vehicles, and reasonable RSU deployment can save resource costs and improve system operating efficiency. This paper proposes an RSU deployment mechanism based on the popularity of road intersections, which uses three traffic parameters, vehicle contact time, intersection connectivity, and intersection coverage capacity, as the main reference indicators. Meanwhile, an improved hotspot discovery algorithm (IHDA) is utilized to introduce inhibition distance during deployment to reduce interference between RSUs. The simulation results demonstrate that, compared with the existing typical deployment methods, this program can improve the coverage time ratio and the contacts of vehicles per trip.

Determining Clinical Patient Selection Guidelines for Head and Neck Adaptive Radiation Therapy Using Random Forest Modelling and a Novel Simplification Heuristic

PurposeTo determine which head and neck adaptive radiotherapy (ART) correction objectives are feasible and to derive efficient ART patient selection guidelines.MethodsWe considered various head and neck ART objectives including independent consideration of dose-sparing of the brainstem/spinal cord, parotid glands, and pharyngeal constrictor, as well as prediction of patient weight loss. Two-hundred head and neck cancer patients were used for model development and an additional 50 for model validation. Patient chart data, pre-treatment images, treatment plans, on-unit patient measurements, and combinations thereof were assessed as potential predictors of each objective. A stepwise approach identified combinations of predictors maximizing the Youden index of random forest (RF) models. A heuristic translated RF results into simple patient selection guidelines which were further refined to balance predictive capability and practical resource costs. Generalizability of the RF models and simplified guidelines to new data was tested using the validation set.ResultsTop performing RF models used various categories of predictors, however, final simplified patient selection guidelines only required pre-treatment information for ART predictions, indicating the potential for significant ART process streamlining. The simplified guidelines for each objective predicted which patients would experience increases in dose to: brainstem/spinal cord with sensitivity = 1.0, specificity = 0.66; parotid glands with sensitivity = 0.82, specificity = 0.70; and pharyngeal constrictor with sensitivity = 0.84, specificity = 0.68. Weight loss could be predicted with sensitivity = 0.60 and specificity = 0.55. Furthermore, depending on the ART objective, 28%-58% of patients required replan assessment, less than for previous studies, indicating a step towards more effective patient selection.ConclusionsThe above ART objectives appear to be practically achievable, with patients selected for ART according to simple clinical patient selection guidelines. Explicit ART guidelines are rare in the literature, and our guidelines may aid in balancing the potential clinical gains of ART with high associated resource costs, formalizing ART trials, and ensuring the reproducibility of clinical successes.

Building Eco-Blocks through the Use of Solid Waste

India is buried under waste stacks as more than 1.50 lakhs ofsolid waste (MT) per day is produced. Worse, nearly 90% of the total volume is collected (135,000 tonnes daily). Almost 15,000 MT of waste remains exposed each day, which leads to a "severe" amount of contamination of some 55 lakh of MT of solid waste disposed of each year in open surface. Just 20% (27 000 tonnes per day) of the total waste collected and 80% (1 08 000 tonnes per day) was disposed of. The remaining 80% is disposed of on site. Progress in the management of solid waste has resulted in materials that replace conventional materials, including bricks, blocks,tiles, aggregates, ceramics, cement, lime, soil, timber and paint. In this research, Eco blocks are generated using waste materials like fly-ash and waste using aggregates of cement and yard. It optimizes materials with various combinations and defines the compression strength of the eco-blocks. Days of 7.71, 5.8 and 9.10 N/mm2 are compressive strengths of 14 and 28. The strength of ecological blocks is equal to or above that of the local company’s regular concrete blocks. The study showed that solid waste can be used for solid block processing. We also analyzed how debris can be recycled to find an alternative to reduce natural resource costs and use.

Building Eco-Blocks through the Use of Solid Waste

India is buried under waste stacks as more than 1.50 lakhs ofsolid waste (MT) per day is produced. Worse, nearly 90% of the total volume is collected (135,000 tonnes daily). Almost 15,000 MT of waste remains exposed each day, which leads to a “severe” amount of contamination of some 55 lakh of MT of solid waste disposed of each year in open surface. Just 20% (27 000 tonnes per day) of the total waste collected and 80% (1 08 000 tonnes per day) was disposed of. The remaining 80% is disposed of on site. Progress in the management of solid waste has resulted in materials that replace conventional materials, including bricks, blocks,tiles, aggregates, ceramics, cement, lime, soil, timber and paint. In this research, Eco blocks are generated using waste materials like fly-ash and waste using aggregates of cement and yard. It optimizes materials with various combinations and defines the compression strength of the eco-blocks. Days of 7.71, 5.8 and 9.10 N/mm2 are compressive strengths of 14 and 28. The strength of ecological blocks is equal to or above that of the local company’s regular concrete blocks. The study showed that solid waste can be used for solid block processing. We also analyzed how debris can be recycled to find an alternative to reduce natural resource costs and use

The innovative relevance of the Kaizen method in enterprise management

The purpose of the article is to reveal the innovative relevance of the Kaizen approach to enterprise management. There are many different ways to grow a business today, and there are many different ways to access them. There are also types that cover specific situations and stages of development. The relevance of the Kaizen prevails in the search for optimal ways to develop business. In this article, the authors consider the features, methods and main directions of the philosophy of the Japanese system to prove the innovative relevance of the Kaizen approach to enterprise management. The article analyzes the experience of Kentau Transformer Plant, which in recent years has followed the control model "Kaizen". In the practice of Kentau Transformer Plant, the main goal of mastering the Kaizen method is to involve all employees in the system and make sure that they change for the better and achieve high results. The essence of the goal of revealing the innovative relevance of the Kaizen method is to consider in advance the existence of an action plan that the whole team wants to achieve in the future by working to achieve the end result and reducing resource costs.

HUMAN RESOURCE COSTS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF QUOTED COMPANIES IN NIGERIA

Accounting from the very beginning is confined to record only those business transactions which can be expressed in monetary terms. This study seeks to empirically investigate the relationship between human resource costs and financial performance of quoted companies in Nigeria. Panel data on different types of human resource costs and financial performance spanning from 2016-2017 were collected from financial reports and accounts of quoted companies on Nigeria stock exchange and federal Inland Revenue Service. Ordinary Least Square Multiple Regression, Auto Regressive Lag. Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Co-integration test, Granger Causality Test, Error Correction Model was used in analyzing the data with the aid of E-view version 12. The empirical results indicate that human resource cost significantly relate to financial performance, explaining about 80.1% of the total variation in revenue, human resource accounting were found to significantly relate to financial performance. The study conclude that human resource cost relate positively and significantly to financial performance and recommends that Management should not recruit more staff and should consider retaining only efficient staff, this implies that insurance firms should downsize their number of staff and focus on training and re-training of the most efficient members of staff. Management should make retirement benefits attractive so as to attract best brains to their respective firms, and there should be a well-coordinated program for staff development if the firm’s profitability and performance are desired to increase positively.