In information technology era, databases are known asone of the most valuable resources for organizations, especially usedin database marketing. Customer Equity is a key concept in DatabaseMarketing which integrates customer acquisition, retention and development.From the perspective of customer equity, customers are theprimary source of both current and future cash-flows. Customer equitymodels...

The objective of this paper is proposing a developed balanced scorecard approach to measure supply chain performance with the aim of creating more value in manufacturing and business operations. The most important metrics have been selected based on experts’ opinion acquired by in-depth interviews focused on creating more value for stakeholders. Using factor analysis method, a survey research h...

background: the value of serial measurement of serum ß subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (ßhcg) and ultrasonography in the early diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy has well established. objective: the objective of this study was to explore the diagnostic value of raising level of serum ßhcg, single measurement of progesterone (p) and estradiol (e2) in early diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy. mat...

This paper presents a new real-time stereo correspondence method based on combined similarity measurement and guided filter. Many stereo correspondence methods use color intensity value as pixel similarity measurement, color intensity value is sensitive to noise, exposure, light and etc, so error correspondence rates of these methods are high. Gradient value is more robust to these factors than...

industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

Conventional measurements of Biological Value made from nitrogen absorption in the entire digestive tract are generally inappropriate when estimating the protein requirements of ruminants. Similarly, measurements in rats, of the Biological Value of rumen microbes cannot be applied with confidence to ruminants. A direct measurement of the Biological Value of absorbed amino acids is required, and...