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Global Android Smartphone Market: Strategy Recommendations
No full textThe purpose of the research is to provide recommendations on business strategies for participants of the global Android smartphone market.
The recommendations were developed through a descriptive and exploratory research of various related topics – first, the market was overviewed in general, then, products, pricing and general strategies of the case companies were analysed. The main theoretical concepts used were David Aaker’s market analysis dimensions, Wiley Encyclopaedia of Management’s market competition spectrum, part of the 4P “Marketing Mix”, Joel Dean’s “Pricing Policies for New Products” and Porter’s Generic Strategies. The information was obtained from secondary sources.
The conclusion chapter presents an overview of the market, products, pricing, and strategies of the case market leader companies. From there, some general recommendations for other market participants and potential new entrants are provided.Nikolai Sedov
Global Android Smartphone Market: Strategy Recommendations, 55 pages
LAB University of Applied Sciences
International Business, Lappeenranta
Thesis 2020
Instructor: Jaani Väisänen, LAB University of Applied Sciences (Senior Lecturer)
The purpose of the research is to provide recommendations on business strategies for participants of the global Android smartphone market.
The recommendations were developed through a descriptive and exploratory research of various related topics – first, the market was overviewed in general, then, products, pricing and general strategies of the case companies were analysed. The main theoretical concepts used were David Aaker’s market analysis dimensions, Wiley Encyclopaedia of Management’s market competition spectrum, part of the 4P “Marketing Mix”, Joel Dean’s “Pricing Policies for New Products” and Porter’s Generic Strategies. The information was obtained from secondary sources.
The conclusion chapter presents an overview of the market, products, pricing, and strategies of the case market leader companies. From there, some general recommendations for other market participants and potential new entrants are provided
Modeling quarantine during epidemics and mass-testing using drones
No full textWe extend the classical SIR epidemic spread model by introducing the “quarantined” compartment. We solve (numerically) the differential equations that govern the extended model and quantify how quarantining “flattens the curve” for the proportion of infected population over time. Furthermore, we explore the potential of using drones to deliver tests, enabling mass-testing for the infection; we give a method to estimate the drone fleet needed to deliver the tests in a metropolitan area. Application of our models to COVID-19 spread in Sweden shows how the proposed methods could substantially decrease the peak number of infected people, almost without increasing the duration of the epidemic. © 2020 Sedov et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
On calculation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a discrete operator with a nuclear resolvent perturbed by a bounded operator
No full textА.И. Седов
Магнитогорский государственный технический университет, г. Магнитогорск, Российская Федерация E-mail: [email protected]. A.I. Sedov
Magnitogorsk State Technical University of G.I. Nosova, Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]Рассматривается задача вычисления собственных чисел и собственных функций возмущенного линейного самосопряженного оператора с ядерной резольвентой, возмущенного ограниченным оператором, действующим в сепарабельном гильбертовом пространстве. Для решения задачи применяется метод регуляризованных следов предложенный В.А. Садовничим и В.В. Дубровским и развитый их учениками. Классический метод регуляри- зованных следов для повышения точности вычислений предполагает вычисление нескольких членов ряда. Сложность вычисления каждого последующего члена ряда нелинейно возрастает. Предлагаемое в работе изменение классического метода приводит к другому ряду, скорость сходимости которого значительно больше, что позволяет уменьшить количество членов ряда используемых в вычислениях. Развивая предложенный метод, в работе приводятся формулы для вычисления коэффициентов Фурье разложения возмущенных собственных функций в ряд по невозмущенным. Для вычисления первых собственных функций используется обратная матрица Вандермонда. Приводятся оценки остатков рядов
T. A. Cherkova, L'Egypte et le royaume kouchan (Les contacts commerciaux et culturels), 1991
No full textSedov Alexandr Vsevolodovič. T. A. Cherkova, L'Egypte et le royaume kouchan (Les contacts commerciaux et culturels), 1991. In: Topoi, volume 3/1, 1993. pp. 370-372
Vitaly V. Naumkin. Island of the Phoenix. An Ethnographic Study of the People of Socotra. Translated from Russian by Valéry A.Epstein, 1993
No full textRodionov Mikhail A., Sedov Alexandr Vsevolodovič. Vitaly V. Naumkin. Island of the Phoenix. An Ethnographic Study of the People of Socotra. Translated from Russian by Valéry A.Epstein, 1993. In: Topoi, volume 5/2, 1995. pp. 668-673
Gender-Aware Facility Location in Multi-Gender World
No full textThis interdisciplinary (GS and CS) paper starts from considering the problem of locating restrooms or locker rooms in a privacy-preserving way, i.e., so that while following the path to one's room, one cannot peek into another room; the rooms are meant for a multitude of genders, one room per gender. We then proceed to showing that gender inequality (non-uniform treatment of genders by genders) makes the room placement hard. Finally, we delve into specifics of gender definition and consider locating facilities for the genders in a "perfect" way, i.e., so that navigating to the facilities involves only quick binary decisions; on the way, we indicate that there is room for interpretation the facilities under consideration (we outline several possibilities, depending on the application)
Evgeny Nikolaevich Sedov: a leading breeder of pome fruit crops in Russia
No full textAcad. Evgeny Nikolaevich Sedov, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Scientist Emeritus, is an outstanding researcher and breeder, author of 90 apple and pear cultivars, founder of a scientific school specializing on priority trends in pome fruit breeding: – development of adaptable triploid apple cultivars with regular fruiting, high marketability of fruits, and increased self-fertility; – development of apple cultivars immune or highly resistant to scab; – development of triploid apple cultivars with immunity to scab; – development of columnar apple cultivars for super-intensive orchards and main technology elements for their cultivation; – development of apple cultivars with improved biochemical composition of fruits with higher content of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and Р-active substances (vitamin Р)
Higher-gradient continua: The legacy of Piola, Mindlin, Sedov and Toupin and some future research perspectives
No full textSince the first studies dedicated to the mechanics of deformable bodies (by Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange) the principle of virtual work (or virtual velocities) has been used to provide firm guidance to the formulation of novel theories. Gabrio Piola dedicated his scientific life to formulating a continuum theory in order to encompass a large class of deformation phenomena and was the first author to consider continua with non-local internal interactions and, as a particular case, higher-gradient continua. More recent followers of Piola (Mindlin, Sedov and then Richard Toupin) recognized the principle of virtual work (and its particular case, the principle of least action) as the (only!) firm foundation of continuum mechanics. Mindlin and Toupin managed to formulate a conceptual frame for continuum mechanics which is able to effectively model the complex behaviour of so-called architectured, advanced, multiscale or microstructured (meta)materials. Other postulation schemes, in contrast, do not seem able to be equally efficient. The present work aims to provide a historical and theoretical overview of the subject. Some research perspectives concerning this theoretical approach are outlined in the final section
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