The rise of e-commerce live-streaming has reshaped the communication of product quality and corporate social responsibility (CSR) information, making consumer reference quality an important factor in supply chain operational decisions. This paper inv...
Remanufacturing of returned products has been increasingly recognized in industries as an effective approach to face environmental responsibility, government regulations, and increased awareness of consumers. In this paper, we address a closed-loop s...
With the rapid growth of live-streaming e-commerce, product quality information asymmetry and intensified brand competition pose challenges for platform quality governance and inter-firm innovation. This study develops a platform-based supply chain w...
Although supply quality management has been studied extensively, one important marketing phenomenon, that is, reference effect has been rarely considered in dual-channel supply chain quality management literatures. In fact, the quality reference effe...
Nowadays, in such a competitive business environment, under the pursuit of high quality and high standards, every enterprise has clearly realized that the quality of products is directly related to the interests of the enterprise, the development of...
The reference effect of consumers’ product quality and service quality is an important behavioral factor that affects consumers’ purchase decisions. In this paper, considering the inherent dynamics of the operation mode, the two were comb...
This paper uses symmetry to develop a dual-channel supply chain network model, both with and without blockchain technology, ensuring that the solutions for pricing and channel selection are symmetric in both modes. And, in the model that does not emp...
Visual quality assessment is often used as a key performance indicator (KPI) to evaluate the performance of electronic devices. There exists a significant association between visual quality assessment and electronic devices. In this paper, we bring a...
Considering users’ perceptions can help managers develop more accurate business strategies. Utilizing optimal control theory, this paper takes the reference price and goodwill of paid App as the state variables to analyze the paid App’s o...
The changes in underwater light in field usually occur not only in intensity but in spectrum, affecting the photophysiology of marine photoautotrophs. In this study, we comparably examined the photosynthesis of two dominating macroalgae in the Daya B...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies face a number of challenges in interpreting and reconciling short-duration (seconds to minutes) readings from mobile and handheld air sensors with the longer duration averages (h...
In addition to competition from independent refurbishers, consumer distrust of refurbished product quality is a major bottleneck for brand manufacturers when selling refurbished products. This paper focuses on a duopoly competition consisting of a br...
This paper develops a two-period game theoretic model to investigate a seller’s quality claims in a cheap-talk setting. In this model, consumers are reference-dependent with respect to product quality, and consumers who have purchased items can...
Noise-based quality evaluation of MRI images is highly desired in noise-dominant environments. Current noise-based MRI quality evaluation methods have drawbacks which limit their effective performance. Traditional full-reference methods such as SNR a...
Assessing the quality of a reconstructed hyperspectral image (HSI) is of significance for restoration and super-resolution. Current image quality assessment methods such as peak signal-noise-ratio require the availability of pristine reference image,...
Background: Drug reference apps promote self-management and improve the efficiency and quality of work for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and patients. This study aimed to describe a systematic and stepwise process to identify drug reference apps i...
Panacis Japonici Rhizoma (Zhu-Jie-Shen in Chinese), the root of P. japonicus C.A. Mey., is commonly used in traditional Chinese Medicine. Saponins are the major bioactive compounds in this herb. The similarity of polarity and structure of the natural...
Crowdsensing utilizes a range of sensing resources and participants, including mobile device sensors, to achieve collaborative sensing and information fusion. This enables it to handle complex social sensing tasks and provide more intelligent and rea...
Recent years have witnessed tremendous advances in clouding gaming. To alleviate the bandwidth pressure due to transmissions of high-quality cloud gaming videos, this paper optimized existing video codecs with deep learning networks to reduce the bit...
As the pre-process of storage and processing, rice drying is a key link to ensuring grain quality. A scientific and reasonable drying process can maintain grain quality and realize grain loss reduction, energy savings, and emission reduction. By esta...
The accuracy of a map is dependent on the reference dataset used in its construction. Classification analyses used in thematic mapping can, for example, be sensitive to a range of sampling and data quality concerns. With particular focus on the latte...
With the development of a large-scale and intensive production industry, the number of laying hens in China is rapidly increasing. Oils, as an important source of essential fatty acids, can be added to the diet to effectively improve the production p...
Blind/no-reference image quality assessment is performed to accurately evaluate the perceptual quality of a distorted image without prior information from a reference image. In this paper, an effective blind image quality assessment approach based on...
A comprehensive gene expression investigation requires high-quality RNA extraction, in sufficient amounts for real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction and next-generation sequencing. In this work, we compared different RNA extraction methods...
Image quality is a key issue affecting the performance of biometric systems. Ensuring the quality of iris images acquired in unconstrained imaging conditions in visible light poses many challenges to iris recognition systems. Poor-quality iris images...
Gastrodia elata (G. elata) tuber is a valuable herbal medicine used to treat many diseases. The procedure of establishing a reasonable and feasible quality assessment method for G. elata tuber is important to ensure its clinical safety and efficacy....
A reliable quality assessment procedure for pansharpening methods is of critical importance for the development of the related solutions. Unfortunately, the lack of ground truths to be used as guidance for an objective evaluation has pushed the commu...
This work presents a deep-learning-based denoising technique to accelerate the acquisition of high b-value diffusion-weighted MRI for rectal cancer. A denoising convolutional neural network (DCNN) with a combined L1–L2 loss function was develop...
Safety and effectiveness are crucial quality attributes for insulin infusion pump systems. Therefore, regulatory agencies require the quality evaluation and approval of such systems before the market to decrease the risk of harm, motivating the usage...
On-demand ride-sharing services change our travel behavior, which threatens the survival of taxi services. Motivated by this, this paper examines the impact of on-demand ride-sharing services on taxi services and how to achieve the coexistence of two...
With attention increasing regarding the level of air pollution in different metropolitan and industrial areas worldwide, interest in expanding the monitoring networks by low-cost air quality sensors is also increasing. Although the role of these smal...
A data set of very high-resolution visible/near infrared hyperspectral images of young Pinus contorta trees was recorded to study the effects of herbicides on this invasive species. The camera was fixed on a frame while the potted trees were moved un...
Agriculture is the foundation of every country’s survival and development. This paper analyzes the interaction between the business environment, agricultural opening-up and high-quality agricultural economy from the perspective of China’s...
A green and reliable method using supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and molecular distillation (MD) was optimized for the separation and purification of standardized typical volatile components fraction (STVCF) from turmeric to solve the shortage...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is referred to as the leading cause of irreversible visual loss in developed countries, with a profound effect on the quality of life [...]
The Swiss Association of Pediatric Cardiologists wants to offer the best possible treatment to children With congenital heart disease in Switzerland. The association therefore promotes measurements for quality improvement. Quality of care can be eval...
A switching losses reduction technique for the model predictive control (MPC) algorithm, which uses double-vector in the three-phase rectifier, is presented. The proposed method controls the output voltage of the rectifier by using reference rectifie...
Nowadays, how to evaluate image quality reasonably is a basic and challenging problem. In view of the present no reference evaluation methods, they cannot reflect the human visual perception of image quality accurately. In this paper, we propose an e...
Air quality (AQ) in urban areas is deteriorating, thus having negative effects on people’s everyday lives. Official air quality monitoring stations provide the most reliable information, but do not always depict air pollution levels at scales reflect...
Threatened species recovery programmes benefit from incorporating genomic data into conservation management strategies to enhance species recovery. However, a lack of readily available genomic resources, including conspecific reference genomes, often...
Pan-sharpening aims to generate high-resolution (HR) multispectral (MS) images by fusing HR panchromatic (PAN) and low-resolution (LR) MS images covering the same area. However, due to the lack of real HR MS reference images, how to accurately evalua...
Protein, which is the main component of meat, is degraded and oxidized during meat fermentation. During fermentation, macromolecular proteins are degraded into small peptides and free amino acids, and oxidation leads to amino acid side chain modifica...
Image quality assessment plays an important role in image processing applications. In many image applications, e.g., image denoising, deblurring, and fusion, a reference image is rarely available for comparison with the enhanced image. Thus, the qual...
Jujube wine production faces the technical challenge of excessive methanol formation due to the high pectin content of the raw material. This study systematically compared five pre-fermentation treatments (pectinase, chitosan, bentonite, gelatin, and...
The Internet of things (IoT) technology is developing rapidly, and the IoT services are penetrating broadly into every aspect of people’s lives. As the large amount of services grows dramatically, how to discover and select the best services dy...
Given the reference (distortion-free) image, full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) algorithms seek to assess the perceptual quality of the test image. Over the years, many effective, hand-crafted FR-IQA metrics have been proposed in the li...
High-quality reference panels are important resources for genotype imputation and genomic selection in dairy goats; however, dairy-goat reference panels remain limited in sample size, population representation, and standardized workflow evaluation. I...
Even though the site index is a popular method for describing forest productivity, its use is limited in uneven-aged multispecies forests. Accordingly, the site form (SF) is an alternative measure of productivity to the site index based on the tree h...
Industrial systems such as lean practices, quality systems, workplace safety, and organisational culture are often managed as separate systems; however, in practice, they are interdependent. This study presents a preliminary survey instrument (CiE II...
Text summarization is a process of producing a concise version of text (summary) from one or more information sources. If the generated summary preserves meaning of the original text, it will help the users to make fast and effective decision. Howeve...
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