Congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction: Should we continue lacrimal massage till 1 year or perform an office probing at 6 months? A clinical decision analysis approach Sir, We read the study by Bhandari et al. [1] with interest. It was of particular interest to us because probing for the congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNLDO) remains the second most common ocular surgical interventi...

Executive Summary v Glossary of Economic Terms ix 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Background and hypotheses 1 1.2 Objectives and target audience 1 1.3 Definitions and scope 1 1.4 Structure of paper 4 2. Economics and Forestry: a Conceptual Overview 4 2.1 Introduction 4 2.2 Forestry, economics and public resource allocation 4 2.3 Recent changes in economic and forest policies 5 2.4 The development of envi...

We report on the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) to plan the best assignment for the weekly promotion space of a TV station. Each product to promote has a given target audience that is best reached at specific time periods during the week. The DSS aims to maximize the total viewing for each product within its target audience while fulfilling a set of constraints defined by the us...

nd a w lsh scool of foeign sevice gegetow n unersity For this paper, I have decided to step through the proscenium and appeal directly across the “fourth wall” to whatever readers this piece may attract, in the hopes that someone among you will be able to help me figure out the answers to a set of questions with which I have been wrestling for several years. For fun, let’s call this paper an ex...

The ability to identify or predict a target audience from the increasingly crowded social space will provide a company some competitive advantage over other companies. In this paper, we analyze various training datasets, which include Twitter contents of an account owner and its list of followers, using features generated in different ways for two machine learning approaches the Extreme Learnin...

Science does not occupy a prominent place on Spanish television, possibly due to those in charge of the creation, production, organization, and programming content. Previous research has shown that television executives have mental images their audiences they actively use professional practice. This study adopts mixed, qualitative-quantitative method determine beliefs regarding attitudes toward...