Top Research Papers on Quick Commerce

In recent months several widely circulated publications have exploited the concept of key-word-in-context (KWIC) indexing. Indexes prepared through KWIC techniques are based entirely on the permuted titles of material to be analyzed and are produced at high speed with the aid of electronic computers. KWIC indexes appear to have been received with approval by scientists, whereas many librarians regard them with misgivings and are concerned about the discontinuance of certain earlier conventional subject indexes. This paper presents some of the difficulties encountered by reference librarians wh...

A family friend called Dottie gave me my first haircut in the living room of her old house. I cried hard but did not move a muscle, only my eyes. “You were so still,” they tell me. “It didn’t take her long at all.” There’s a photo of me in a chair with a sheet around me—my face puffy, Dottie laughing, my hair still little-boy blonde. My chubby arms were frozen. My legs, like rolls of baker’s dough, shot straight out over the seat. I had long eyelashes and droopy cheeks I eventually grew into. I was told they got so big from Dottie and her mother-in-law Jean sucking on them so hard at church.

This paper presents a meta-modelling architecture for knowledge bases (KB) -- large heterogeneous linked entity collections with millions of unique edge and node labels, often encoding rich semantic information over entities.

Of all instructional methods, lecturing is the most common, the easiest, and the least effective. Unless the instructor is a real spellbinder, most students cannot stay focused throughout a lecture: after about 10 minutes their attention begins to drift, first for brief moments and then for longer intervals; they find it increasingly hard to catch up on what they missed while their minds were wandering; and eventually they switch the lecture off altogether like a bad TV show. McKeachie [1] cites a study indicating that immediately after a lecture students recalled 70% of the information presen...

As the global landscape of commerce undergoes unprecedented transformations, Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) has emerged as a disruptive force, redefining the traditional retail paradigm. This research paper delves into the intricate facets of Quick Commerce within the context of the burgeoning Indian market. The study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Quick Commerce ecosystem, Its evolution, growth , key players, the challenges faced by retailers , grocers and e-commerce companies .Exploring the consumer’s behaviour in shaping the success of Quick Commerce platforms. Furthermore, th...

A process for the production of freshmasa, mixtamalized flour and derived products. The invention is a new process for production of corn masa (dough) to be used in the production of tortillas, fried or baked tortilla chips, tostadas, or corn chips. The new process produces masa directly from raw materials without the traditional cooking and steeping steps. It utilizes a series of processing steps including dry blending, hydrating, and working dough in an extruder having a unique screw configuration. The new process uses very little water and emits no waste water.

The thromboplastic reagent that I developed was the result of years of meticulous study and testing, and in spite of its commercial possibilities, it was made available without patent attachments.

Averna’s automated testing solution for wearables has helped one OEM meet rising customer demands by validating its smartwatch’s features in just ninety seconds per unit

In the context of innovation, companies will soon recognize that big data and business analytics need controlled experiments, and organizations innovating in ecosystems seem to innovate more efficiently, with comparatively lower operational expense spending.

Gary Pisano: keeping the larger firm vibrant and innovative Leavy Brian Can corporate giants learn to dance? This question reflects a long held view that established companies often seem to lose their capacity for innovation as they mature. Are mature firms then destined to fall prey to the marketplace’s “winds of creative destruction” and eventually be upended by disruptive upstarts? Not so, according to Gary Pisano in his latest book, Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation.

Masterclass Decoupling: customer-centric perspectives on disruption and competitive advantage Brian Leavy The phenomenon of industry disruption, and the crucial role that business model innovation by late entrants so often plays in bringing it about, is an evolving feature of modern competitive strategy. This masterclass examines the insights of Harvard marketing expert Thales Teixeira in Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption. Professor Teixeira warns that “Disruptors often posed a threat by breaking the links between some of the stages of the Customer V...

A connection of two conduits (14, 16) to a circuit element (10). Each of the conduits comprises a normal-diameter portion (56, 58) and an enlarged diameter portion (52, 54) terminating in a flange (46, 48) and a member (20) comprises a quick assembly housing (38, 40) which is connected to the periphery of this body by a slot whose width allows it to pass only the normal diameter portions of the ducts. It is therefore loosen a screw (18) for fixing to keep the assembly member (20) of the body (10) of the circuit element to enable it to rotate. Application particularly to refrigerant conduits co...

Notes the concern that the launch of a new technological product into a European market can cause to the management of a company. Suggests that a close examination of the traditional planning process and a deeper understanding of the management devices that are used in marketing can indicate a clear strategy path to the company.

2025. Proposed by Valerian Nita, Sterling Heights, MI. Let n be a positive integer and let x1, x2, . . . , xn and a1, a2, . . . , an be real numbers such that ∑n k=1 xk = 0 and 0 < a1 < a2 < · · · < an . Define s1, s2, . . . , sn by sk = ∑k j=1 a j x j for k = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n. If there is at least one nonzero number among x1, x2, . . . , xn , prove that there is at least one positive and at least one negative number among s1, s2, . . . , sn .

MATHEMATICS MAGAZINE 1993. Proposed by Kimberly D. Apple, Columbus State University, GA. Each face of an icosahedron is colored blue or white in such a way that any blue face is adjacent to no more than two other blue faces. What is the maximum number of blue faces? (Two faces are considered adjacent if they share an edge.) 1994. Proposed by Donald E. Knuth, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, CA. Let X0 = 0, and suppose Xn+1 is equally likely to be either Xn + 1 or Xn − 2. What is the probability, pm , that Xn ≤ m for all n ≥ 0? 1995. Proposed by Michel Bataille, Rouen, France. ...

Answers to the Quickies are on page 78. Q1047. Proposed by Michael W. Botsko, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA. Let (X, d) be a complete metric space and let f : X → X . Suppose there exists r > 1 such that d( f (x1), f (x2)) ≥ r · d(x1, x2) for all x1 and x2 in X . (a) Prove that if f is onto, then f has a unique fixed point in X . (b) Is the conclusion in part (a) still true without the assumption that f is onto?

1980. Proposed by H. A. ShahAli, Tehran, Iran. For every S subset of the plane, let diam(S) = sup{‖x − y‖ : x, y ∈ S}. Let n ≥ 1 be an integer and S1, S2, . . . , Sn subsets of the plane such that ∑n k=1 diam(Sk) < √ 2. Define S = ∪k=1Sk . Prove that there is a translation of S that avoids all points with integer coordinates. That is, prove that there are real numbers r and s such that ((r, s) + S) ∩ (Z × Z) = ∅.

Let a and b be positive integers. Place a white points on a circle so that they fonn the vertices of a regular a-gon. Place b black points on the same circle so that they form the vertices of a regular b-gon and so that white and black points are distinct. Beginning with a black point whose clockwise distance from the nearest white point is a minimum and proceeding clockwise, label the points with the integers 0 through a+ b1. Prove that the black points have labels lk(a + b)jbJ, k = 0, 1, ... , b1, and the white points have labels fk(a +b)/a]1, k = 1, 2, ... , a.

Alice and Bob play the following game: they first agree on a positive integer n > 1, called the target number, which remains fixed, and each turn, a player names a prime factor of n, and the state of the game is multiplied by this prime.

Starting with any n-tuple R0 , n > 1, of symbols from A, B,C, we define a sequence R0 , R1, R2 , •.. according to the following relation: if R1 = (x1, x2 , ••. , x,), then RJ+l = ( y1, y2 , ••• , y,.), where y; = x1 if x1 = x1+l (taking x,.+ 1 = x1) and y1 is the symbol other than x1 and x1+1 if x1 =l=xi+l' (For example, if R0 =(A, A, B,C), then R1 =(A, C, A, B).) (a) Find all positive integers n > 1 for which there exists some integer m > 0 such that R,. = R0 for all R0 • (b) For n = 3k, k ~ 1, find the smallest integer m > 0 such that R,. = R0 for every Ro·