C ustomer Relationship Management (CRM) is premised on the belief that developing a relationship with customers is the best way to get them to become loyal and that loyal customers are more profitable than non-loyal customers. Frederick Reichheld has argued that a company can achieve significant increases in profits from only small improvements in customer retention rates. The strategy is to en...

Abstract. We address, in this chapter, the identification of typical patterns that best characterize a set of sequences. More specifically, we focus on data-driven methods that search for the typical patterns among the observed sequences. In life course studies, such typical sequences serve, for instance, to describe ideal-type life trajectories; i.e., the common way(s) of organizing our life. ...

This paper is concerned with the summarization of a set of categorical sequence data. More specifically, the problem studied is the determination of the smallest possible number of representative sequences that ensure a given coverage of the whole set, i.e. that have together a given percentage of sequences in their neighborhood. The goal is to yield a representative set that exhibits the key f...

this paper carries out an illuminating reading of mamdouh adwan’s poetry and his main theoretical principles. moreover, it uncovers the poet’s general characteristics through studying texts and examples from them, and points out his stylistic methods that establish his poetry between rhetoric and announcement. this leads us to speak about the political and literary qualities that underline his ...

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World portrays a post-human totalitarian society namely “World State” which does not let humans be conceived in and born naturally from mothers’ wombs, rather it regards them as any creature can hatched, conditioned, fertilized, incubated Bokanovskified to manufactured thousands. The system of power has thrown normality into exile while celebrating the procession repli...

Almost unprecedented since the Mandela era, civil society, including doctors, nurses and scientists in the public and private sector, united behind her, roundly condemning Mbeki and his loyal ally, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. The rhetoric doubled in volume and quantity when the Sunday Times (12 August) published detailed allegations of TshabalalaMsimang’s ‘drunken exploits’ while ...

This research aimed on prediction of customer loyalty (Non loyal or Loyal) using the application of data mining in microfinance that helps to build a classification model which supports during loan decision making in the organization. In this study a classification model is built based on the loan data obtained from Joshua Multi Purpose Limited Liability Cooperative (JMPLLC). Experiments using ...

this research investigates the legal effects of marriage contract provision. through the study of reasons present in the issue, the author concludes that being loyal to the provision is considered as a legal requirement and the one against whom the condition is made can be forced to be faithful. of course in case of violation from the marriage provision, the option of annulment is not proved, w...

Both the amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal domains of IGF binding protein (IGFBP)-3 are believed to contribute to high-affinity IGF binding. To investigate cooperativity in IGF binding by these domains, we expressed IGFBP-3 fragments 1-88 (NBP-3) and 185-264 (CBP-3) as FLAG and hexahistidine-tagged fusion proteins, respectively. IGF-I and IGF-II bound to NBP-3 poorly and to CBP-3 with modera...