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A decomposition-based heuristic for a waste cooking oil collection problem
(Springer, 2020-01-01)
Every year, a tremendous amount of waste cooking oil (WCO) is produced by households and commercial organizations, which poses a serious threat to the environment if disposed improperly. While businesses such as hotels and ...
Anticipating the financial crisis: evidence from insider trading in banks
(Oxford University Press, 2020-04)
Banking crises are recurrent phenomena, often induced by excessive bank risk-taking, which may be due to behavioural reasons (over-optimistic banks neglecting risks) and to conflicts of interest between bank shareholders/managers ...
A benchmark for inpainting of clothing images with irregular holes
(Springer, 2020)
Fashion image understanding is an active research field with a large number of practical applications for the industry. Despite its practical impacts on intelligent fashion analysis systems, clothing image inpainting has ...
Uncertainty-aware deep classifiers using generative models
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020)
Deep neural networks are often ignorant about what they do not know and overconfident when they make uninformed predictions. Some recent approaches quantify classification uncertainty directly by training the model to ...
Managing brand experience and reputation in the hotel business
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-05-18)
As “the business of brands”, with more than 300 brands worldwide, the hotel industry has been focused on brand experience since the development and expansion of international brands over the last few decades. New brands ...
Istanbul's heritage at risk : the Galata district
(FrancoAngeli, 2020)
Istanbul's Galata district is a multicultural crossroad in the Mediterranean. Throughout Istanbul's transformation into a modern metropolis Galata maintained its distinctive and cosmopolitan character due to the cultural ...
Dynamics of the relation between producer and consumer price indices: A comparative analysis in the U.S. market
(IGI Global, 2020-06-01)
The relation between the Producer Prices Index (PPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the U.S. is analyzed for two sub-periods: one spanning from 1947 to 1982, the post-war period marked by demand-side economic policies, ...
Photon statistics effects on a QRNG of vacuum fluctuations
(Optica Publishing Group, 2020-09-14)
Optical scattering enhances randomness characteristics, increases the chaotic behavior of coherent sources, broadens the distribution of photon statistics and makes it super-Poissonian which allows faster sampling compared ...
Down-conversion emission profile characterisation via camera
(Optica Publishing Group, 2020-12-14)
We present a method to improve the brightness and collection efficiency of the spontaneous parametric down-conversion source by monitoring the mode shape using camera and correcting it with collection optics.
Analysis of customer switching behavior in omni-channel retailing
(Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, IISE, 2020)
Omni-channel retailing is a recent approach that allows customers to purchase products from anywhere and return them anywhere and allows retailers to fulfill orders from anywhere. This flexibility improves the customer ...
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