There is a growing trend among retailers to sell fruits through their community group-buying (CGB) channels. Based on real operational data, we employ econometric models to empirically analyze how consumer perception characteristics in CGB affect fruit sales. Our findings suggest that incorporating subjective experiences into product descriptions can positively impact fruit sales for retailers; fresh produce stores outperform regular stores in fruit sales of CGB; Dark-colored fruits sell more than light-colored fruits in the CGB channel. Our study offers valuable insights for retailers selling fruits through CGB channels.
This study investigates the application of brand subsidies to capitalize on limited capital in the context of branded agricultural products facing supply risks, aiming to identify a win-win subsidy decision-making model. We consider a supply chain for branded agricultural products comprising financially constrained farmers and financially robust retailers. Financially constrained farmers, who can produce without loans under normal conditions, resort to bank loans to supply branded agricultural products when faced with supply risks. We find that under capital constraints, brand subsidies consistently yield higher returns in terms of brand strength and market demand. Moreover, even after adjusting for supply risks through posterior probability, brand subsidies continue to deliver superior returns.
As a crucial task in the field of computer vision, object tracking models are widely used in various application domains, such as autonomous driving. However, existing multiple object tracking methods still face challenges in accurately and efficiently tracking moving multi-targets in real time. This paper presents BEVEFNet, a camera-LiDAR multi-target tracking model based on multistage fusion, which effectively utilizes the semantic information from optical images and the spatial and geometric information from LiDAR data to unify multi-modal features in a shared Bird’s Eye View(BEV) representation space. By leveraging LiDAR data to complement optical images, multi-level fusion is achieved at both the feature and decision levels. The proposed efficient sparse 3D feature extraction network significantly enhances the speed of multiple object tracking by incorporating sparse convolution. Experiments conducted on the nuSences dataset demonstrate that BEVEFNet achieves an AMOTA of 69.7, improving the accuracy of multiple object tracking.
We consider a network of intermediate inputs trade between sectors of OECD Countries’ in 2020. Centrality indices are used to identify most vulnerable sectors in the network of intermediate inputs trade between 45 manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors of 76 countries. The network is based on the official data of inter-country input-output tables published in 2023 by OECD. We apply new centrality indices to identify sectors, which might be under the risk in case of an economic shock.