OBJECTIVE The tobacco industry spends large sums lobbying the European Union (EU) institutions, yet whether such lobbying significantly affects tobacco policy is not well understood. We used novel quantitative text mining techniques to evaluate the impact of industry pressure on the contested EU Tobacco Products Directive revision. DESIGN Policy positions of 18 stakeholders including the toba...

Published October, 2011 titute for Environmental Diplomacy & Security @ the University of Vermont Many developing economies have been receiving increasingly significant amounts of foreign direct investment in mining over the past two decades. As mining expands in these new mineral economies, this sector has become a significant source of social and political conflict. New mineral economies must...

Dividend is the return that an investor receives when purchasing a company’s shares. The decision to pay these dividends to shareholders concerns several other groups of people, such as financial managers, consulting firms, individual and institutional investors, government and monitoring authorities, and creditors, just to name a few. The prediction and modelling of this decision has received ...

The mineral and coal mining licensing policy currently in force is law Number 3 of 2020 concerning Amendments to 4 2009 Mineral Coal Mining. However, this considered too centralistic because the role Central Government more dominant than Role Local Government. This research uses a normative approach analyze related policies Law concept division authority. results show that provisions legislatio...

industrial-scale r&d it projects depend on many sub-technologies which need to be understood and have their risks analysed before the project can begin for their success. when planning such an industrial-scale project, the list of technologies and the associations of these technologies with each other is often complex and form a network. discovery of this network of technologies is time con...

Data mining has been widely applied to different areas. For a country with a huge population and household census data, data mining is an ideal approach for analyzing this information. In Taiwan single-parent families, aborigines and the elderly have long been considered disadvantaged social classes, and their widening problems will have a tremendous impact and influence on society. This study ...

This paper examines conflicts that occur between mining companies and civil society organizations (CSOs) around the world and offers an innovative analysis of mining conflicts from a social network perspective. The analysis showed that, as the number of CSOs involved in a conflict increased, its outcome was more likely to be perceived as a success in terms of environmental justice (EJ); if a CS...

Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) is the new hope for marketing due to the increasing collection of large databases. There is a paradox because the companies must improve the development policy of customer loyalty by using methods that do not allow to treat large quantities of data. Our current work is the results of a study that we led on a association rules mining in banking marketing pr...

Vital statistics data offer a fertile ground for data mining. In this paper, we discuss the results of a data mining project on the causes of death aspect of the vital statistics data in the state of California. A data mining tool called Cubist is used to build predictive models out of two million cases over a nine-year period. The objective of our study is to discover knowledge that can be use...

With a unbridled increase in international and domestic forms of business, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has become one of the matters of concern to the enterprise and the entrepreneurs. CRM takes customer as the center and it enchants a new life to the organization system and optimizes its business process increasing its profitability. In order to help enterprises understand the “Prod...