We analyze the determinants of online customers’ reviews through the latent semantic analysis (LSA) method. We find that the products and communication are the determinants for both satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Operational factors are more influential on satisfaction while post-service affects dissatisfaction more. Dissatisfied customers are more emotional than satisfied customers.

There exist numerous genes disseminated by mobile elements that can confer cross-resistance to lincosamides and streptogramin A compounds in staphylococci. This study investigated the nature and means of dissemination of genes responsible for LSA resistance among 24 French clinical isolates screened for reduced susceptibility to lincomycin. The vga(A)v gene was found to be the most prevalent de...

This study harnessed control ratings of the contribution of different types of information (sensation, action, emotion, thought, social interaction, morality, time, space, quantity, and polarity) to 400 individual abstract and concrete verbal concepts. These abstract conceptual feature (ACF) ratings were used to generate a high dimensional semantic space, from which Euclidean distance measureme...

Thomas Richard Allinson (1858-1918) and Joseph Stenson Hooker (1853-1946) both obtained the licentiateship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1879 and were duly entered on the Medical Register, Hooker having qualified LSA two years previously. In their practice of medicine both came to favour "natural healing" and both came into conflict with the medical establishment. In 1892 A...

AIMS The reference methods for enumeration of total coliforms and Escherichia coli as stated in the European Drinking Water Directive were compared with alternative methods. METHODS AND RESULTS Laboratories used the reference method on Lactose TTC agar (LTTC), the Colilert/18 system, Laurysulphate Agar (LSA), Chromocult Coliform Agar and the E. coli Direct Plating (DP) method. They enumerated...

We study a finite-time Carnot cycle of a weakly interacting gas which we can regard as a nearly ideal gas in the limit of T(h)-T(c) --> 0 where T(h) and T(c) are the temperatures of the hot and cold heat reservoirs, respectively. In this limit, we can assume that the cycle is working in the linear-response regime and can calculate the Onsager coefficients of this cycle analytically using the el...

Et (st) The mean, over training sets, of st. The subscript t in Et is redundant, since the only source of variability for st is the training sets, and it is included for emphasis. Vart (st) The variance, over training sets, of st ŝt An estimator of st. This estimator can be a function of only the training set t, i.e., ŝt = ŝt(t) (Chapters 2–5). It can also be a function of both the training and...

The origins of herding practices in southern Africa remain controversial. The first appearance of domesticated caprines in the subcontinent is thought to be c. 2000 years BP; however, the origin of this cultural development is still widely debated. Recent genetic analyses support the long-standing hypothesis of herder migration from the north, while other researchers have argued for a cultural ...

456 Ann Dermatol Received April 24, 2014, Revised July 21, 2014, Accepted for publication August 12, 2014 Corresponding author: Jae Eun Choi, Department of Dermatology, Korea University College of Medicine, 73 Inchon-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-705, Korea. Tel: 82-2-920-5470, Fax: 82-2-928-7540, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creativ...