Since the increased importance is placed on customer equity in today’s business environment, many firms are focusing on the notion of customer loyalty and profitability to increasing market share. Building successful customer relationship management (CRM), a firm starts from identifying customers’ true value and loyalty since customer value can provide basic information to deploy more targeted ...

This paper presented a rigorous mathematical model based on orbital parameters for correction of the geo-rectified images such as Ikonos Geo, where the geometry of image at the time of imaging is lost and minimum information regarding the satellite movement in its orbit is available. Based on this model, the geo-rectified image is converted back to its geometry at the time of imaging at first. ...

Mulching and tillage are widely considered to be major practices for improving soil and water conservation where water is scarce. This paper studied the effects of FM (flat mulching), RFM (ridge-furrow mulching), SM (straw mulching), MTMC (mulching with two materials combined), MOM (mulching with other materials), NT (no-tillage) ST (subsoiling tillage) and RT (rotational tillage) on wheat yiel...

The RFMmodel provides an effective measure for customers’ consumption behavior analysis, where three variables, namely, consumption interval, frequency, and money amount are used to quantify a customer’s loyalty and contribution. Based on the RFM value, customers can be clustered into different groups and the group information is very useful in market decision making. However, most previous wor...

One of the strategies a company uses to retain its customers is Customer Relationship Management (CRM). CRM manages interactions and supports business build mutually beneficial relationships between companies customers. The utilization information technology, such as data mining used manage data, critical in order be able find out patterns made by when processing transactions. Clustering techni...

Serum progesterone and estradiol-17β levels were estimated in Nili Ravi buffaloes (n=190) with and without fetal membranes retention in three agro-ecological zones of Punjab. The results showed that serum progesterone concentration was significantly higher (P<0.05) in buffaloes with retention of fetal membranes (RFM) compared to buffaloes without retention of fetal membranes (NRFM). The compari...

Product recommendation is a business activity that is critical in attracting customers. Accordingly, improving the quality of a recommendation to fulfill customers’ needs is important in fiercely competitive environments. Although various recommender systems have been proposed, few have addressed the lifetime value of a customer to a firm. Generally, customer lifetime value (CLV) is evaluated i...

Nowadays companies increasingly derive revenue from the creation and sustenance of long-term relationships with their customers. In such an environment, marketing serves the purpose of maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV) and customer equity, which is the sum of the lifetime values of the company’s customers. A frequently-encountered difficulty for companies wishing to measure customer prof...

Aim: Access to essential medicines is a key component of managing patients in ambulatory care. In 2008, the State Minas Gerais, Brazil, created Pharmacy Network (Rede Farmácia de [RFM]) program improve access medicines, increasing availability and restructuring infrastructures. The aim was assess current situation, comparing municipalities with without RFM. Materials &amp; methods: Descriptive ...