Research—A Mast Profitable Investment;Marxism Confounded

Confounded Expectations:

For TRECVID 2004, CMU participated in the semantic feature extraction task, and the manual, interactive and automatic search tasks. For the semantic features classifiers, we tried unimodal, multi-modal and multi-concept classifiers. In interactive search, we compared a visual-only vs a complete video retrieval system using visual AND text data, and also contrasted expert vs novice users; The ma...

Detecting Profitable Deviations

In this paper I offer necessary and sufficient conditions for implementability in a quasi-linear principal-agent model with arbitrary type spaces. I extend Rochet’s Theorem by allowing the principal to observe information that may be correlated with the agent’s type. By viewing the agent’s gains from misreporting as payments in a hypothetical zero-sum game, I show that an allocation is implemen...

Managing Profitable Customer Relationships

Welcome to the exciting world of marketing. In this chapter, to start you off, we will first introduce you to the basic concepts. We’ll start with a simple question: What is marketing? Simply put, marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The aim of marketing is to create value for customers and to capture value in return. Chapter 1 is organized around five steps in the marketing...

Epidemic$ and Pandemic$ are profitable?!

Profitable Investments Mitigating Privacy Risks

Risk control plays an important role at privacy protection. Article 17 (1) of the Directive 95/46/EC (DPD) requires that the controller must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data. ICT offers solutions in the shape of privacy protection for users, consumers and citizens. The application of ICT to protect privacy has become widely known under the nam...