In the recent years, the creation of the customer involvement with a brand has been considered as one of the strategic requirements of companies, and the creation and maintenance of emotional communication with a brand has provided a basis for deep communication between the customer, brand, and long-term profitability. The purpose of this study is to examine emotional links with brands, to prov...

Data fusion in the virtual data integration environment starts after detecting and clustering duplicated records from the different integrated data sources. It refers to the process of selecting or fusing attribute values from the clustered duplicates into a single record representing the real world object. In this paper, a statistical technique for data fusion is introduced based on some proba...

— This paper presents a new technique for the monolithic heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductor devices with silicon integrated circuits, and establishes the theoretical foundation for a key element of the process, tailored magnetic attraction and retention. It is shown how a patterned thin film of hard magnetic material can be used to engineer the attraction between the film and n...

In this paper we present a surface formulation and curved panel integration method for computing the van der Waals interaction energy between a molecular solute and aqueous solvent. This modeling problem arises in computational drug design, where one wishes to understand the energetic tradeoff between a trial drug’s interactions with solvent and its interactions with the target. We use the dive...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy and open partial nephrectomy are now established methods of treatment for appropriate renal lesions suspicious for malignancy, Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy has undergone progressive evolution. The aim of this paper is to; (i) evaluate the current status of laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, and (ii) to place it in the Australian and New Zealand con...