Given an IRd-valued supercritical branching Wiener process, let ψ(A, T ) be the number of particles in A ⊂ IRd at time T, (T = 0, 1, 2, . . .). We provide a complete asymptotic expansion of ψ(A, T ) as T →∞, generalizing the work of X. Chen ([2]).

An analysis of beef supply chains revealed that a strategic focus on beef quality was critical to that part of the chain involving producers. Moreover, beef quality was directly related to customer relationship management. Across the industry, there are a diverse set of customers each with different needs. This means that it is difficult for individual producers to develop a successful approach...

We present a comparison of weak and distant supervision methods for producing proxy examples for supervised relation extraction. We find that knowledge-based weak supervision tends to outperform popular distance supervision techniques, providing a higher yield of positive examples and more accurate models.

Business researchers have recently become interested in how an individual’s share ownership in a publicly-listed company may affect his/her repeat patronage towards the company’s products and services. The purpose of this article is to investigate the influence of share ownership on repeat patronage, in conjunction with the influence of customer satisfaction. Survey data of a large sample of cu...

i i i i A dependency look at the reality of constituency Xinying Chen ∗ Carlos Gómez-Rodŕıguez † and Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho ‡ ∗Foreign Languages Research Center, School of Foreign Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, No.28 Xianning West Road, 710049 Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R. China,†Universidade da Coruña, FASTPARSE Lab, LyS Research Group, Departamento de Computación, Facultade de Informática, Elviña,...

In this chapter, we will look at what is meant by positivist research, and consider how a positivist approach to research leads to the use of experimental and quantitative methods. We will also be introducing you to the idea of research paradigms. This is important because carrying out research involves an understanding of the philosophy that underpins the research – or ‘paradigm’ – because thi...