With the high costs of attracting new customers on the Internet, the profitability of an e-retailer is realized only during later purchases. Fostering loyalty among patrons is thus necessary for the success of e-retailers. This is more so because repeat purchases are not the only behavioral trait of the loyal customer—he also recommends his favorite e-retailers to potential buyers. This calls f...

Drought tolerance is an important breeding target for enhancing the yields of grain crop species in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Two species of Setaria, domesticated foxtail millet (S. italica) and its wild ancestor green foxtail (S. viridis) are becoming widely adopted as models for functional genomics studies in the Panicoid grasses. In this study, the genomic regions controlling ...

[32] H. Yen, A polynomial time algorithm to decide pairwise concurrency of transitions for 1-bounded con BLOCKINict-free Petri nets, Inform. Some complexity bounds for problems concerning nite and 2-dimensional vector addition systems with states, Theoret. Comput. 1) _ (# 1 (t i) 1 ^ # 1 (t j) = 0))). As a result, B-fairness can be detected in P. Acknowledgements: The authors thank the anonymou...

The COVID-19 pandemic cast doubts on governments' traditional crisis responses and sparked a surge in citizen-led, participatory, bottom-up responses. Iran's experience is worth investigating because it relied significantly citizen groups to manage the despite long-term sanctions extremely restricted resources. authors undertook an exploratory case study using grounded theory (GT) method online...

Because agency enforcement of the Medicaid statute against non-compliant states is utterly impractical, Medicaid providers and beneficiaries have relied on section 1983 litigation to protect themselves against the harmful effects of state cutbacks on Medicaid spending by privately enforcing two particular provisions of the Medicaid statute against the states. However, because of several legisla...

A DSP-based measurement system dedicated to the vibration analysis on rotating machines was designed and realized. Vibration signals are on-line acquired and processed to obtain a continuos monitoring of the machine status. In case of fault, the system is capable of isolating the fault with a high reliability. The paper describes in detail the approach followed to built up fault and unfault mod...

Massively parallel architectures require decentralized and scalable system policies. The paper presents and evaluates a set of local dynamic load balancing strategies inspired by diffusion and characterized by different scopes of locality: the goal is to compare their performance depending on the application dynamicity. The paper shows that only slowly dynamic applications can take advantage of...

A method for speech expressiveness change detection is presented which combines a dimensional analysis of speech expression, a Principal Component Analysis technique, as well as multiple regression analysis. From the three inferred rates of activation, valence, and involvement, two PCA-factors explain 97 % of the variance of the judges’ evaluations of a corpus of radio show interaction. The mul...