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Net Profit Deals: Not Your Traditional Record Deal

To compute the net profits in a Net Profit Deal, the record company deducts off the top its actual outof-pocket costs for recording, manufacturing, promotion, marketing, etc. Some labels also deduct a so-called “Overhead Fee” of 10 to 15% of the gross record sales income. After the record company deducts all of these expenses and reimburses itself, the label then pays the artist whatever percen...

Parenting as a Package Deal:

Fatherhood has traditionally been viewed as part of a “package deal,” where a father’s relationship with his child is contingent upon his relationship with the mother. We evaluate the accuracy of this hypothesis in light of the high rates of multiple-partnered fertility among unmarried parents using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a recent longitudinal survey of nonmarital birth...

A framework to Deal with Missing Data in Data Sets

Most information systems usually have some missing values due to unavailable data. Missing values minimizing the quality of classification rules generated by a data mining system. Missing vales also affecting the quantity of classification rules achieved by the data mining system. Missing values could influence the coverage percentage and number of reducts generated. Missing values lead to the ...

Circulation research impact factor sets new record.

The intent, therefore, is to provide a metric for the number of times an article is cited, on average, in the first 1 to 2 years after it appears. However, close scrutiny of the formula reveals that the factor might be artificially inflated in journals that routinely publish abstracts. Citations to abstracts are counted in the numerator, but not in the denominator. Our journal has not published...

Match to family medicine sets record.