This study aimed at providing a systematic method to analyze the characteristics of customers’ purchasing behavior in order to improve the performance of customer relationship management system. For this purpose, the improved model of LRFM (including Length, Recency, Frequency, and Monetary indices) was utilized which is now a more common model than the basic RFM model apt for analyzing the cus...

The Iberian Peninsula has an extensive record of species displaying strong genetic structure as a result of their survival in isolated pockets throughout the Pleistocene ice ages. We used mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data to analyze phylogeographic patterns in endemic land snails from a valley of central Portugal (Vale da Couda), putatively assigned to Candidula coudensis, that show an ex...

KINESIN-73 IS A PROCESSIVE MOTOR THAT LOCALIZES TO RAB5-CONTAINING ORGANELLES Thomas M. Huckaba, Arne Gennerich, James E. Wilhelm, Athar H. Chishti, and Ronald D. Vale Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158-2517, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College ...

BACKGROUND Ischemic heart diseases (IHD) are important causes of death in the Vale do Paraíba paulista. OBJECTIVE To identify patterns of spatial distribution of hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and IHD in the Vale do Paraíba paulista. METHODS This was an ecological study using exploratory spatial analysis of hospitalization data for acute myocardial infarction and isc...

Reviews major activities of the Editor and changes in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (JPP) for issues published in 1993 through 1997. Significant trends and accomplishments are reviewed, including the increased use of Special Issues and Special Sections to highlight current pediatric psychological research. Articles published during the term are analyzed in terms of article type and popula...

This paper aims to explore the applicability of the RFM (Recentness,Frequency,Monetary) model in the customer segmentation of auto services companies, for which it obtains the weight of each index through the method of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and segments the customers with K-means clustering method. This paper divides customers into several segments by comparing customer lifetime valu...

Of the 600 known yam species, only 10 are utilized as food, and the Dioscorea cayenensis/D. rotundata species complex is among the most cultivated. In Brazil, these species are commercially cultivated in the northeast region and are cultivated in the south and southeast regions as subsistence crops by traditional agriculturists. This study aimed to evaluate the genetic diversity of 21 local var...

Since 2005, the State of Acre, western Amazon, Brazil, has reported the highest annual parasite incidence (API) of malaria among the Brazilian states. This study examines malaria incidence in Acre using spatial and spatio-temporal analysis based on an ecological time series study analyzing malaria cases and deaths for the time period 1992- 2014 and using secondary data. API indexes were calcula...

The data warehousing is becoming increasingly important in terms of strategic decision making through their capacity to integrate heterogeneous data from multiple information sources in a common storage space, for querying and analysis. So it can evolve into a multi-tier structure where parts of the organization take information from the main data warehouse into their own systems. These may inc...