With the development of the Internet and Electronic Commerce (EC), enterprises have overcome the space and time barriers and are now capable of serving customers electronically. However, it is a great challenge to attract and retain the customers over Internet. One approach is to provide the responsive personalized service to satisfy the customer demand and promote sales at the first time. Henc...

statement of the problem: refractory nocturnal enuresis possesses a heavy psychosocial burden for the affected child. only a 15% spontaneous annual cure rate is reported. purpose: this patient-level meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the efficacy of rapid palatal expansion to treat nocturnal enuresis among children. materials and method: a sensitive search of electronic databases of pubmed (since ...

The Students-as-Partners (SaP) paradigm has been widely recognized for its enrichment of pedagogy and research, particularly in the scholarship teaching learning; a time acute disruption to higher education, SaP model may further provide key insights into adaptation high impact practices, although changing conditions partnership require close attention. This paper reports on qualitative evaluat...

Modern cancer treatments have substantially improved cure rates and have generated a great interest in and need for proper statistical tools to analyze survival data with non-negligible cure fractions. Data with cure fractions are often complicated by dependent censoring, and the analysis of this type of data typically involves untestable parametric assumptions on the dependence of the censorin...

This paper proposes, for the first time, use of an asymmetric positive and heavy-tailed distribution in a cure rate model context. In particular, it introduces cure-rate survival by assuming that time-to-event interest follows slash half-normal number competing causes event power series distribution, which defines six new models. Several properties are derived alternative expression cumulative ...