HOW VALUABLE IS WATER?

How valuable is word of mouth?

The customers who buy the most from you are probably not your best marketers. What's more, your best marketers may be worth far more to your company than your most enthusiastic consumers. Those are the conclusions of professors Kumar and Petersen at the University of Connecticut and professor Leone at Ohio State University, who analyzed thousands of customers in research focused on a telecommun...

Fitness testing of tennis players: How valuable is it?

In tennis, sport-specific technical skills are predominant factors, although a complex profile of physical performance factors is also required. The fitness test batteries assist in examining tennis players' capabilities for performance at different levels in the laboratory as well as in the field, in the junior or elite level. While laboratory tests can be, and are, used to evaluate basic perf...

How Valuable is External Link Evidence When Searching Enterprise Webs?

Link information, especially anchor text, is known to be very useful for effective ranking of web pages, particularly in response to navigational queries. We investigated whether enterprise webs contain sufficient internal link information to adequately answer queries derived from the enterprise’s site map or, alternatively, whether adding link evidence from the external Web can boost search ef...

How valuable is cardiac rehabilitation and who should get it?

How valuable is feedback of information on hospital referral patterns?

OBJECTIVES To determine general practitioners' responses to and explanations for variation in rates of referral to hospital and how feedback of data on rates of referral could be used to facilitate practices in auditing their own referral behaviour. DESIGN Visits by audit facilitators to general practices after feedback of details of rates of referral to hospital derived from annual reports i...