Nowadays, 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. But, CLV calculation encounters some difficulties which limit the usage of this technique. Nonetheless, companies looking for methods to know how to calculate their customers’ CLV. In this paper, fuzzy classification rules we...

Provenance is well understood in the context of art or digital libaries, where it respectively refers to the documented history of an art object, or the documentation of processes in a digital object’s life cycle. Interest for provenance in the “e-science community” [12] is also growing, since provenance is perceived as a crucial component of workflow systems that can help scientists ensure rep...

The analyzing and modeling real lifetime data are crucial in many applied sciences including medicine, engineering, insurance and finance, amongst others. The two important one parameter lifetime distributions namely exponential and Lindley [2] are popular for modeling lifetime data from biomedical science and engineering. Recently, Shanker et al. [3] have conducted a comparative and critical s...

  Background: Health care workers occupationally are exposed to blood and other body fluids which might increase their risk of acquiring blood-borne pathogens and psychological stress . The aim of the present study was to determine the lifetime occupational exposure to needlestick injuries and body fluids among doctors and medical students in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (2009)...