Despite much IS research on customer relationship management (CRM) and respective (critical) success factors (SFs), CRM initiatives are still subject to high failure rates. One reason may be that many studies rather exclusively deal with a technological and project perspective and thus focus on CRM-related IT systems and their introduction. As a consequence, no holistic perspective on CRM in th...

In this paper, we present a new neural network (NN) for three-dimensional (3D) shape reconstruction. This NN provides an analytic mapping of an initial 3D polyhedral model into its projection depth images. Through this analytic mapping, the NN can analytically refine vertices position of the model using error back-propagation learning. This learning is based on shape-from-shading (SFS) depth ma...

We developed the Service­Field Simulator (SFS) for virtually providing us with service fields in which the users can walk and perform relatively simple work repeatedly that is frequently seen in actual service fields, and for realizing pre­evaluation for supporting service­field design based on understanding conscious and unconscious behavior of the subjects. In this paper, we ...

Background: Febrile seizure (FS) is one of the most common neurologic disorders in children. Electrolyte imbalance especially hyponatremia may have an important role in triggering the febrile seizure. The measure of serum electrolytes will be useful in predicting the further seizure. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of relative hyponatremia (RH) on the risk of recurrent febri...

Familial melanoma (FM) is a dominantly heritable cancer that is associated with mutations in the tumor suppressor CDKN2A/p16. In FM, a single inherited "hit" occurs in every somatic cell, enabling interrogation of cultured normal skin fibroblasts (SFs) from FM gene carriers as surrogates for the cell of tumor origin, namely the melanocyte. We compared the gene expression profile of SFs from FM ...

The subfilter-scale (SFS) physics of regularization models are investigated to understand the regularizations’ performance as SFS models. Suppression of spectrally local SFS interactions and conservation of small-scale circulation in the Lagrangian-averaged Navier-Stokes α-model (LANS-α) is found to lead to the formation of rigid bodies. These contaminate the superfilter-scale energy spectrum w...

MOTIVATION The distribution of allele frequencies across polymorphic sites, also known as the site frequency spectrum (SFS), is of primary interest in population genetics. It is a complete summary of sequence variation at unlinked sites and more generally, its shape reflects underlying population genetic processes. One practical challenge is that inferring the SFS from low coverage sequencing d...

Within the Photogrammetry and Cartography Group (PCG) of the Mars Express HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Scanner Camera) Co-Investigator Science Team, the main task of which is the development and derivation of high quality cartographic and GIS products of the Martian surface, from the very beginning emphasis has been placed on complementing and improving the stereo-photogrammetric DEM by Shape-f...

Multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) found in the synovial fluid (SFMSCs) of the tempromandibular joint (TMJ) remain poorly understood. During TMJ arthrocentesis, we discovered that synovial fluid collected from some patients with TMJ disorders contained not only SFMSCs but also synovium fragments (SFs). In this study, we attempted to characterize both the SFMSCs and SF-derived cells (SFCs...