Despite the credibility of the market orientation concept, it is still not being fully realised by practitioners. Many perceive their companies to be orientated to the consumer, but the evidence is contrary and the development of a genuine market orientation remains elusive. This paper identifies eight common reasons why managers misinterpret their companies’ market orientation levels and ident...

We describe a correspondence between GLn-invariant tensors and graphs. We then show how this correspondence accommodates various types of symmetries and orientations.

We consider tilings of 2 × n, 3 × n, and 4 × n boards with 1 × 1 squares and Lshaped tiles covering an area of three square units, which can be used in four different orientations. For the 2 × n board, the recurrence relation for the number of tilings is of order three and, unlike most third order recurrence relations, can be solved exactly. For the 3 × n and 4 × n board, we develop an algorith...

Background: In an increasingly interconnected world, understanding the formation of transnational orientations is of great importance. Attitudes toward transnational intermarriage are telling of people’s view of the transnational world and their perceived social distance between countries and regions. Objective: The purpose of this research is to identify the holistic formations of Chinese peop...

This paper address the problems of modeling the appearance of humans and distinguishing human appearance from the appearance of general scenes. We seek a model of appearance and motion that is generic in that it accounts for the ways in which people’s appearance varies and, at the same time, is specific enough to be useful for tracking people in natural scenes. Given a 3D model of the person pr...

By means of a special type of wavelet unitary transform we construct an orientation score from a grey-value image. This orientation score is a complex-valued function on the 2D Euclidean motion group SE(2) and gives us explicit information on the presence of local orientations in an image. As the transform between image and orientation score is unitary we can relate operators on images to opera...

For a nonempty set S of vertices in a strong digraph D, the strong distance d(S) is the minimum size of a strong subdigraph of D containing the vertices of S. If S contains k vertices, then d(S) is referred to as the k-strong distance of S. For an integer k > 2 and a vertex v of a strong digraph D, the k-strong eccentricity sek(v) of v is the maximum k-strong distance d(S) among all sets S of k...

We characterize the graphs for which all 2-connected non-bipartite subgraphs have a strongly connected orientation in which each directed circuit has an odd number of edges. We also give a polynomial-time algorithm to find such an orientation in these graphs. Moreover, we give an algorithm that given any orientation of such a graph, determines if it has an even directed circuit. The proofs of t...

A new indexing procedure based on the direct measurement of the possible grain orientation is presented to characterize single grains within the frame of three-dimensional X-ray diffraction. Depending on the number of reflections considered, the accuracy of grain orientation may be less than 0.1°. The newly developed indexing method was applied to characterize orientation changes of single grai...

introduction: this study was conducted with aim of investigating the relationship between religious orientation and self-esteem of students. methods: the present research was of a correlational study. the research population consisted of all students (boys and girls) studying at islamic azad university, payam noor and applied science universities in darehshahr city in the academic year of 2013-...