... customers in an understandable way and listening to them It may imply that companies need to use different languages to talk to different customer groups (i.e professional and private customers) ... customers A number of drawbacks and benefits pertaining to the tools have been pointed out and discussed Both the research models and the tools, while diverse to a different extent, were found to ... translate into the purchase, consumption, or market success of a product were included into this study 12 The overview of tools for measuring customer satisfaction excluded practical advice on how to...
Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 10:15
... Background 2.1 Exploratory Search Exploratory search addresses the need of users to quickly identify the important pieces of information in a target set of documents In exploratory search, users ... somewhat analogous to the formation of ontological relations between concepts of a given domain, where in our case the nodes 81 correspond to propositional templates rather than to concepts Exploration ... ‘asthma’ (top), and its conversion to a DAG (bottom) Figure 4: The roots of the entailment graph for the ‘asthma’ query 3.2 Exploration Scheme The objective of the exploration scheme is to support...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20
BOHN''''S SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY. HUMBOLDT''''S PERSONAL NARRATIVE VOLUME 3. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF AMERICA DURING THE YEARS 1799-1804 pot
... direct their course towards the equator The former flow from the temperate to the torrid zone This circumstance of courses pursuing opposite directions (towards the equator, and towards the temperate ... and Pore Berrio told Raleigh that he came from the Casanare to the Pato, from the Pato to the Meta, and from the Meta to the Baraguan (Orinoco) We must not confound this Rio Pato (a name connected ... the same time to the sea, to lakes, and to rivers; and this practice, common to many nations in both worlds, has, on our ancient maps, converted lakes into rivers and rivers into lakes In support...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 11:21
Báo cáo khoa học: " The Methodology off Sememic Analysis with Special Application to the English Preposition" ppt
... change metal to gold it turned to amber TO 11: to *—— sticky to the touch silent to the ear TO 12: to * (by) close to the earth near to the equator TO 13: to *—— This is a sememe which ... and into TO 3: to *—— TO 9: to * with (in a different sense from TO 7) compared to the gold in contrast to the fine job done by the painter WHITE TO 10: to * into change metal to gold ... farthest to the right path to one side lands to the east far to the north TO 2: to * (motion) towards come to the edge went to them bring water to dry fields come up to the falls by boat turn to the...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20
measuring efficiency and explaining failures in banking application to the russian banking sector
... objective of this study is to illustrate the new substitution model for the banking sector in Russia and to compare the results to the outcomes of the other approaches used to model deposits ... problems arose, policy makers, economics commentators, and depositors began paying attention to bank performance Researchers as well took up these topics In this research we start by examining in ... failures as a function of risks This is done to set up a model to estimate the probability of bank failures empirically and to identify key explanatory factors influencing them We then reviewed failure...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:06
báo cáo hóa học: " Identifying type and determinants of missing items in quality of life questionnaires: Application to the SF-36 French version of the 2003 Decennial Health Survey" pot
... divided into eight scales: physical functioning (PF1 to PF10), role limitations relating to physical health (RP1 to RP4), bodily pain (BP1 and BP2), general health perceptions (GH1 to GH5), vitality ... perceptions (GH1 to GH5), vitality (VT1 to VT4), social functioning (SF1 and SF2), role limitation relating to mental health (RE1 to RE3), and mental health (MH1 to MH5) One additional item assesses ... socio-demographic variables, those related to health status and those related to the SF-36 questionnaire were tested as predictor variables The variables related to the SF-36 were the number of items...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Knowledge discovery in databases of biomechanical variables: application to the sit to stand motor task" docx
... inherent to the way healthy adults perform the selected motor task In order to properly frame this study, a summary description of the MMIM approach and an overview of the KDD process are reported Methods ... introduced to be used either in conjunction with or in alternative to traditional statistical methods for two main reasons First, while classical statistics is applied to data collected according to ... occurrence of time instants and to low -to- medium sagittal speed from seat-off to the end of the task The patterns found may be considered as typical rules of the sit-tostand motor task and could constitute...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Real-Time Perceptual Simulation of Moving Sources: Application to the Leslie Cabinet and 3D Sound Immersion" pot
... possible to either boost or cut off the high-frequency part of the audio spectrum To simulate air absorption, the control parameters (cutoff frequency and gain) have to be linked to the listener -to- source ... cabinet, the distortion due to the nonlinear response of the Leslie tube amplifier has to be taken into account 3.4 Results To assess the perceptual quality of the model, listening tests have to be run ... were invisible to the listeners A particle detector was placed near each loudspeaker When a particle first passed through a detector in the top group, then through a detector in the bottom group,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20
capital structure and firm performance a new approach to testing agency theory and an application to the banking industry
... capital to gross total assets The use of ECAPi as an inverse measure of leverage is standard in banking research in part because of the regulatory attention paid to capital ratios The vector Z1i ... seems reasonable to assume that shareholder losses from agency costs are close to proportional to Other studies of agency problems use different methodologies For example, one study of agency ... reasonably close to proportional to shareholder losses from agency costs We argue that netting out the effects on profits of exogenous factors beyond the control of management is important to measuring...
Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 21:13
Báo cáo toán học: "Operator systems and their application to the Tomita-Takesaki theory " pptx
Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 09:46
Báo cáo toán học: "EMILION, a tree functional-structural model: Presentation and first application to the analysis of branch carbon balance" pdf
... tree No response of stomata to air vapour pressure deficit No response of stomata to radiation condition No response of stomata to predawn potential No response of stomata to climatic conditions ... remain close to production tables On the other hand, process-based models are forced to take into account the geometry of trees, that is to say their architecture, in order to be able to estimate ... according to the results of Bosc [2] SAsun (m2) is equal to the total surface of the needle segments that have a face illuminated directly by the sun SAshade is equal to the difference between total...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "Statistical methods for detecting and comparing periodic data and their application to the nycthemeral rhythm of bodily harm: A population based study" ppsx
... of vectors forming an orthonormal basis and change basis Statistical methods are applied to search for single coordinates of the data (relative to the new basis) that are “large” compared to the ... contributed to the conception and the design of the study, analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript UR contributed to the conception and the design of the study TB acquired the data IK contributed to ... Two statistical methods that will enlarge the scientists toolbox for analyzing multi-harmonic oscillations were described As the example demonstrated the methods can be used to detect and compare...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo y học: "Dynamic simulation of red blood cell metabolism and its application to the analysis of a pathological condition" docx
... prototype model The prototype model was used to simulate the effects of G6PD deficiency G6PD is a key enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway that converts glucose 6-phosphate into gluconolactone ... pentose phosphate pathway The Ru5P produced was mainly converted to fructose 6-phosphate (F6P), and this metabolite consumed ATP to make fructose 1,6-diphosphate (FDP) The FDP production led to ... 3-Phosphoglycerate Adenosine Dihydroxy acetone phosphate Erythrose 4-phosphate Fructose 6-phosphate Fructose 1,6-diphosphate Glucose 6-phosphate Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate Gluconolactone 6-phosphate Gluconate...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22
Toward an Interactive Method for DMEA-II and Application to the Spam-Email Detection System
... are assumed to lie and the whole Pareto optimal set does not have to be generated with equal accuracy In papers [9] and [10], two reference point interactive methods are proposed to use single ... value to P – Repeatedly scan all rays copy max{n − m, n/2} solutions to P • Step 11: Go to Step if stopping criterion is not satisfied In DMEA-II, the selection of non-dominated solutions to fill ... solutions instead of all Pareto optimal solutions To find the preferred solutions, the preference information is needed to guide the search towards the region of the PF of interest to the DM Based on the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:00
Development of hybrid PSTD methods and their application to the analysis of fresnel zone plates
... domain methods and integral methods are not in the scope of study in this thesis In the three hybrid PSTD methods developed in this thesis, only the application of PSTD-FDTD method is extended to ... boundary to simulate the extension of the lattice to infinity A recently proposed approach to realize an ABC is to terminate the outer boundary with absorbing material medium This is analogous to the ... interpolation/Fitting methods compared to standard solution 132 6.5 For subsection fitting (8-point): relative errors of different interpolation/Fitting methods compared to standard solution...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:00
A method for 3d nano focusing of optical energy and its application to the surface enhanced raman spectroscopic study of protein 2
... transferred to an electron within the metal 105 While fast electrons are good tools for the study of the dispersion relation at very v large kx (~0.3 Å-1) as has been performed previously in order to study ... exciting beam is launched into the top medium (i.e region 0), normally a glass semi-cylindrical prism, which has a high refractive index (normally a glass) to up the k x 106 to ω c ε sin θ o (where ... sufficiently large compared to, | ε1 | in the case of a Krestchman-Raether setup, or | ε | in the case of Otto setup, in order for θ o , sp to be a real value, i.e in order to have a realistic incident...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01
A method for 3d nano focusing of optical energy and its application to the surface enhanced raman spectroscopic study of protein 1
... SERS substrates xxviii “… the explanatory arrows all point downwards from societies to people to organs to cells to biochemistry to chemistry and ultimately to physics …” Prof Steven Weinberg (Nobel ... insights into the interplay between protein protein interactions, protein- surface interactions, as well as protein conformational changes, and thus allows for mechanistic understanding of a protein ... are topology plot, while (b) and (d) are near-field images 172 Chapter Dielectric Nano-cavity Embedded SERS Substrates in the Study of a Model Protein Fig ATIR device for Otto configuration (Top...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02
TEACHING FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF CIVIL ELECTRICAL SERVICES FOR RURAL LABORERS
... related to many factors, including the application of methods, models corresponding training for learners By studying some work overseas and domestic-related topics, we found that up to now there ... analysis results to assess the feasibility of the proposal 18 3.1.3 Methods of testing To test reviews, the authors use pedagogical experimential methods and expert methods to improve reliability ... labor force STUDY TASKS To study theories and practice of TFEL in VT for rural workers; the characteristics of rural workers to choose measures, appropriate teaching techniques; to propose process...
Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 15:17
An effective trajectory based algorithm for ball detection and tracking with application to the analysis of broadcast sports video
... Low-Level Feature-Based Methods 79 4.2.2 Auditory Low-Level Feature-Based Methods 81 4.2.3 Visual and Auditory Low-Level Feature-Based Methods 81 4.2.4 Shape-Based Methods 82 4.2.5 ... significant trajectories or forms different trajectories from ball trajectories in various aspects Using these properties, we discriminate the ball trajectory from the ball-like object trajectory Furthermore, ... 48957 to 49167 of FIFA 2002 final 47 3.8 Flowchart of candidate trajectory generation 48 3.9 Ball trajectory selection procedure 51 3.10 Ball trajectories after trajectory mining...
Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:56