In the past two decades, the notion of “customer relationship management” (CRM) has been widely discussed and researched. The associated language (such as “customer satisfaction”, “customer retention”, “spending habits of customers” and “analytical CRM systems”) and job positions (such as “customer relationship managers” and “customer services officers”) have been developed. The paradigm has be...

Multicondition training (MCT) is an established technique to handle noisy and reverberant conditions. Previous works in the field of i-vector based speaker recognition have applied MCT to linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and probabilistic LDA (PLDA), but not to the universal background model (UBM) and the total variability (T ) matrix, arguing that this would be too much time consuming due to...

With the rise of the knowledge economy, the importance of intellectual capital has grown. The concept of intellectual capital was raised by Galbraith in 1969, since when the market to book value of corporations around the world has increased dramatically. The implication of this phenomenon is that value creating factors have shifted from tangible assets to intangible ones. Thus, in order to cre...

Relationship acquisition has always contributed as an important enhancement to Natural Language Processing. Using “definition extraction” methods proved to be a very useful approach, not only for relationship extraction but also for enhancing the limited coverage of words in WordNet. It also played a major role in developing question answer systems and ontology learning for unrestricted data. V...

A series of 3and 4-substituted 7-hydroxycoumarins analogues were analyzed for structure–activity relationship using sphere exclusion algorithm method. The QSAR studies were analyzed and the structural features contributing to the enhancement of activity were identified. 2D-QSAR statistically significant model with coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.8291 and cross validated correlation coeff...

Membrane-interaction quantitative structure-activity relationship (MI-QSAR) models for two skin penetration enhancer data sets of 61 and 42 compounds were constructed and compared to QSAR models constructed for the same two data sets using only classic intramolecular QSAR descriptors. These two data sets involve skin penetration enhancement of hydrocortisone and hydrocortisone acetate, and the ...

Hand geometry based verification systems are amongst the utmost in terms of user satisfactoriness for biometric qualities. This is obvious from their extensive profitable deployments around the world. Regardless of the profitable achievement, a number of issues remain to be addressed to formulate these systems more comprehensible. Shape features (hand/finger geometry) obtained from the hand car...

Despite speculation that peers' alcohol-related content on social media sites (SMS) may influence the alcohol use behaviors of SMS frequenting college students, this relationship has not been investigated longitudinally. The current prospective study assesses the relationship between exposure to peers' alcohol-related SMS content and later-drinking among first-year college students. Among 408 f...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perception of emotional intelligence and beliefs in the extent to which exercising leads to mood-enhancement. methods volunteer participants (n=315) completed a 33-item self-report measure of trait emotional intelligence and an exercise-mood regulation scale. results emotional intelligence significantly correlated with be...