... sophisticated information systems and data warehouses been able to manage a great deal of data. The challenge is to capture and measure soft and qualitative information. For example, in the book The ... non-financial performance measures such as customer and employee satisfaction, customer and employee retention and quality measures and financial indicators such as profitability (Banker and Mashruwala, ... indicators of financial performance? An analysis of customer satisfaction’’, Journal of Management Accounting Research, 36, 1-35.Ittner, C., Kalafut, P., Larcker, D., Sean Love, S., Low, J., Park,...
... perframe.Native data were collected toa resolution of 1.4 A ˚. A total of 360 frames of data with an oscillation angle of 0.45° were collected. The exposure time was 0.5 s perframe. All datasets ... of Ca-traces of thestructurally similar proteins (light blue) and FocB (dark red) areshown to the right. DNA strands are shown in yellow and orange,and the RNA strand is shown in coral. Parts ... &Tucker PA (2005) Auto-Rickshaw: an automated crystalstructure determination platform as an efficient tool forthe validation of an X-ray diffraction experiment. ActaCrystallogr D 61, 449–457.61...
... regular, loyal and dedicated customers. They are hooked toa particular store and don‟t need to be reminded again and again about the store. STRATEGY TO HANDLE SUCH CUSTOMERS: Regular follow ... converted toa customer very easily and that too a loyal one. STRATEGY TO HANDLE SUCH CUSTOMERS: The biggest mistake that a sales person can do is to argue with these types of customers and offend ... A customer always remembers a store where it got a special treatment. Especially if they had visited this store as a casual visitor. Research indicates the way store staff treats the causal visitors...
... that the PageRanks form a probability distribution over web pages, so the sum of all web pages’ PageRanks will be one.PageRank or PR (A) can be calculated usinga simple iterative algorithm, and ... higher ranking. We have several other extensions to PageRank,again see [Page 98]. Another intuitive justification is that apage can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, ... if there are some pages that point to it and have a high PageRank. Intuitively, pages that are wellcited from many places around the web are worth looking at. Also, pages that have perhaps only...
... Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs: Drugs such as acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen used to treat pain and inflammation. Metastasis (plural: metastases, verb: metastasize): The spread of cancer ... produce and release a hormone (PTHrP) into the bloodstream that can increase the rate at which bones release calcium. Lung cancer that has spread to bone can also cause an increased release of calcium ... (hypercalcemia). Two intravenous bisphosphonates are approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating cancer that has spread to bone. Pamidronate (Arediađ) was approved...
... by a set of predicted hazard rates. Impact assessment requires quantification of the impact ofa change in hazard rates. But we may treat the calculations done so far as representing a baseline ... disease. It is well appreciated that deaths from chronic non-malignant respiratory disease are often misclassified as deaths from cardiovascular disease in death certificate data. · Investigators ... calculation of survival probabilities takes into account that deaths take place throughout a year. Without precise dates of each death, the usual (“actuarial”) convention is that about half the deaths...
... reinforcement learning for auto-matic dialogue policy optimization in a question-based motivational dialogue system. Our system canautomatically compose a dialogue strategy from a li-brary of dialogue ... Table 4 are basically summaries ofa set of more specific states since a state is a specific repre-sentation of the dialogue context at a particular mo-ment (composed of the values of the features ... do-mains. As part of that, we will look at automaticallymining libraries of dialogue components from ex-isting dialogue transcript data (e.g. available scriptsor transcripts of films, tv series and...
... Hierarchy in a modified hiddenMarkov modelLin-Yi ChouUniversity of WaikatoHamiltonNew Zealandlc55@cs.waikato.ac.nzAbstractThis paper explores techniques to take ad-vantage of the fundamental difference ... seconddataset is part of the Lancaster Treebank corpusand contains 1473 sentences. Each sentence con-tains hand-labeled syntactic roles for natural lan-guage text. A. 200 A. 400 A. 600 A. 800 A. 1000 A. 1200 A. 14000.860.880.900.920.94B.200B.400B.600B.800B.1000B.1200B.14000.860.880.900.920.940.860.880.900.920.94FC.200C.400C.600C.800C.1000C.1200C.14000.860.880.900.920.940.860.880.900.920.94FFigure ... flattened hierarchical hid-den Markov model (PFHHMM) can assign propo-sitions to language texts (grammar parsing) at leastas accurately as the HMM. This is assignment is a task that HHMMs are...
... information. Some email or web pages that appear to come from a legitimate source may actually be the work of an attacker. An example is an email claiming to be sent from a system administrator ... antivirus software will be most effective if the signatures are up to date. Many antivirus and antispyware programs offer automatic updating. Enable that feature so your software always has ... for and install all available updates. Enable automatic updates if your vendors offer it; that will ensure your software is always updated, and you won’t have to remember to do it yourself. Many...
... story, of the drama, and even of the melodrama, applied to the presentation of general information, provided a means for catching the attention of the casual reader. Daily newspapers had already ... subjects of limited appeal are adapted to agricultural, trade, or other class publications, particularly to such of these periodicals as present their material in a popular rather than a technical ... proceedings of important organizations are generally available at public libraries. As Mr. Waldemar Kaempffert, editor of Popular Science Monthly, has said: There is hardly a paper read before...
... photosynthetic rate does not always translate to higher growth; it appears that at high CO2, some phytoplankton species release a sizeable fraction of their photosynthate as extracellular organic matter ... delineates ambitious priorities and goals for the National Ocean Acidification Program. The FOARAM Act calls for the development ofa detailed, 10-year strategic plan for the National Ocean Acidification ... phytoplankton production of extracellular organic carbon (see chapters 3 and 4) and by the accelerated bacterial decomposition of organic matter at higher temperature. A decrease in seawater...