Background: Accurate brain tissue segmentation from magnetic resonance (MR) images is an important step in analysis of cerebral images. There are software packages which are used for brain segmentation. These packages usually contain a set of skull stripping, intensity non-uniformity (bias) correction and segmentation routines. Thus, assessment of the quality of the segmented gray matter (GM), ...

A distributor of Apple products' experiences numerous difficulties in developing marketing strategies for new and existing mobile product entries that maximize customer satisfaction and the firm's profitability. This research, therefore, integrates market segmentation in platform-based product family design and conjoint analysis to identify iSystem combinations that increase customer satisfacti...

It has long been a theme of real estate professionals that real estate markets are economically fragmented. These markets are presumed to be characterized by product differentiation, by small and isolated sub-pools of participants, and by market segmentation. This view is intuitively compelling, but sobering. It taints the prospects for modern econometric forecasting of office markets because e...

In this paper, we examine the role of insurance coverage in explaining the generic competition paradox in a two-stage game involving a single producer of brand-name drugs and n quantity-competing producers of generic drugs. Independently of brand loyalty, which some studies rely upon to explain the paradox, we show that heterogeneity in insurance coverage may result in higher prices of brand-na...

We examine a monetary economy wherein endogenous asset market segmentation permits the extent of household participation in open market operations to smoothly vary with changes in aggregate conditions. While we impose no stickiness at the microeconomic level in either prices or portfolio adjustment, we …nd that our ‡exible asset market segmentation can deliver gradual adjustment in the aggregat...

goal of any enterprise is to be more efficient and gain morebenefits. market segmentation in most areas, particularly retail bankingindustry, is a strategic tool for optimum allocation of resources and as aresult achieving this objective. this study with the purpose of retailbanking market segmentation is based on the benefits expected. toaccomplish this goal, in addition to field studies throu...

A segmented markets model of monetary policy is constructed, in which a novel feature is goods market segmentation, and its relationship to conventional asset market segmentation. The implications of the model for the response of prices, interest rates, consumption, labor supply, and output to monetary policy are determined. As well, optimal monetary policy is studied, as are the costs of infla...

More than thirty years ago, Wind’s (1978) seminal review of research in market segmentation culminated with a research agenda for the subject area. The priorities included exploring the applicability of new segmentation bases across different products and contexts, developing more flexible data analysis techniques, creating new research designs and data collection approaches, developing new con...