The Effect of Variability in the Powder/Liquid Ratio on the Strength of Zinc Phosphate Cement by Jill E. McKenna, Noel J. Ray, Gerald McKenna, Francis M. Burke

“…Methodology. 34 dental students dispensed the components according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The maximum and minimum powder/liquid ratios, together with the manufacturer’s recommended ratio, were used to prepare samples for DTS testing. …”
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Pricing and Warranty Decisions of Substitutable Products for a Fuzzy Two-Echelon Supply Chain by Yongzhao Wang

“…Expected value manufacturer-leader Stackelberg models and two chance-constrained programming models, that is, the λ-optimistic and λ-pessimistic manufacturer-leader Stackelberg models, are established. …”
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Price and Service Competition of Dual-Channel Supply Chain with Consumer Returns by Lili Ren, Yong He, Houfei Song

“…Products returned by consumers are common in the retail industry and result in additional costs to both the manufacturer and the retailer. This paper proposes dual-channel supply chain models involving consumer returns policies. …”
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Carbon Emission Reduction and Coordination Strategies for New Energy Vehicle Closed-Loop Supply Chain under the Carbon Trading Policy by Yan Yin, Fengcai Liu

“…In addition, this study establishes a Stackelberg game model dominated by NEV manufacturers and uses contracts to coordinate the model. …”
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Disruption Risk Analysis of Substitutable Dual Product Supply Chain: A System Dynamics Framework by Jing Ke, Weiqiang Jia, Ye Zhou, Xin Wang

“…Through simulation analysis, we found that (1) supply chain disruption can cause fluctuations in the manufacturer’s inventory, and disruptions from second tier suppliers have a higher impact on the manufacturer’s inventory than that from primary suppliers. …”
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Analyzing the Influence of Online Test-Driving Reviews on the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles by Chuan Hui Liao, Xuan Zheng Wang, Ren Gang Guo, Siqi Wang

“…For TDRs, positive professional reviews and manufacturer reviews reduced risk perception, leading to adoption intention. …”
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Research on Closed-Loop Supply Chain with Competing Retailers under Government Reward-Penalty Mechanism and Asymmetric Information by Xiao-qing Zhang, Xi-gang Yuan, Da-lin Zhang

“…In manufacturer-led closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with two competing retailers, the retailer-1 recycles WEEE whose fixed recycling cost is asymmetric information. …”
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Design Analysis of 26650 and 18650 LFP Cells for High Power and Low Temperature Use Cases by Florian Wätzold, Anton Schlösser, Max Leistikow, Julia Kowal

“…Design variations were observed, even within cells from the same manufacturer. For instance, one manufacturer’s 26650 cell was not a scaled-up version of their 18650 cell, and no equivalence was found between the designs of high-power and low-temperature cells from the same manufacturer. …”
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Environmental Collaboration under Various Contracts in the O2O Closed-Loop Supply Chain by Yang Bai, Xueying Meng

“…Through green advertising efforts, the manufacturer and the retailer push up the consumers’ environmental consciousness and the return rate of the end-of-use products. …”
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Government Reward-Penalty Mechanism in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Based on Dynamics Game Theory by Xiaoqing Zhang, Yingsheng Su, Xigang Yuan

“…So it strongly proved effectiveness in guiding WEEE recycling. (3) In any case, the product sale price of manufacture-1 is lower than that of manufacturer-2. …”
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Research on Demand Forecasting Information Sharing Strategy of Closed-Loop Supply Chain considering Advertising Effect by Liying Li, Xinyu Hou, Lixia Niu

“…Firstly, this paper constructs a manufacturer-led Stackelberg game model based on a two-level closed-loop supply chain. …”
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Inventory and Production Dynamics in a Discrete-Time Vendor-Managed Inventory Supply Chain System by Yongchang Wei, Fangyu Chen, Hongwei Wang

“…This paper presents some analytical results on production and order dynamics in the context of a discrete-time VMI supply chain system composed of one retailer and one manufacturer. We firstly derive the lower bound and upper bound on the range of inventory fluctuations for the retailer under unknown demand. …”
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Dual-Channel Decisions under Blockchain and Returns by Guangdong Liu, Ziyang Li, Jinggui Chen

“…Only if the fixed cost of blockchain technology is low would the manufacturer adopt it.…”
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Multilayer Super-Translucent Zirconia for Chairside Fabrication of a Monolithic Posterior Crown by Sven Rinke, Anna Metzger, Holger Ziebolz

“…However, it should be noted that clinical data for this type of restoration are still sparse. Therefore, manufacturer recommendations regarding indication, preparation, and cementation must be followed very strictly.…”
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Dynamic Pricing and Supply Coordination with Reimbursement Contract under Random Yield and Demand by Guo Li, Lun Ran, Xiaohang Yue, Zhaohua Wang

“…This paper investigates the dynamic pricing and supply chain coordination in a decentralized system that consists of one supplier and one manufacturer, in which both the market demand and production yield are stochastic. …”
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GENERATION Z: CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM by T. A. Beregovskaya, S. A. Grishaeva

“…As a result of the study, the opportunities (consumer’s independent choice of means of interaction with the manufacturer, channel shifting in the process of purchasing, interaction with the manufacturer regardless from the chosen communication channel) and barriers (absence of isolated online channels for sales, usage of slow-loading Internet platforms with inconvenient interfaces, absence of a dedicated app or limited possibilities of its usage, etc.) of omnichannel marketing implementation for the Generation Z target audience have been revealed. …”
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Pricing Decisions and Online Channel Selection Strategies in Dual-Channel Supply Chains considering Block Chain by Qiang Li, Huanling Li

“…In the two different dual-channel sales models, the results showed that (1) without block chain technology, retail prices increase when the manufacturer’s unit retail cost increases; (2) with block chain technology, retail prices are higher than those of sales models that do not adopt block chain technology; and (3) with block chain technology, the manufacturer should choose the online direct + delegation sales model to sell its products.…”
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A Game Theory Approach for Supply Chain Coordination Model with Incentive Mechanisms of Discount and Delay in Payments by Mohammad Ferdousmakan, Roya M. Ahari, Mohammadreza Vasili, Majid Vaziri Sarashk

“…In the decentralized model, both the manufacturer and retailer independently determine the level of investment and order quantity regarding scenario-based demands. …”
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Optimal Decisions for a Fuzzy Two-Echelon Supply Chain by Qingfeng Song, Kai Shi, Sheng Lin, Guangping Xu

“…The results illustrate that no matter what decision case is, the optimal retail and wholesale prices in the case of considering selling effort are, respectively, larger than those of no selling effort; the optimal profits of the manufacturer, the retailer, and the whole supply chain system in the case of considering selling effort are, respectively, larger than those of no selling effort except for the profit of the retailer in the case that the manufacturer plays the leader’s role. …”
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Reference Interval for Cystatin C in a Sample of Adult Cuban Population by Dailen Darias Rivera

“…The interval of reference was calculated and compared with the one proposed by the manufacturer. <strong><br />Results:</strong> the interval of reference obtained showed association with sex, but not with the age group. …”
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