This paper deals with the problem of scheduling optimal advertising policy for a very general class of consumer buying behavior models. To avoid analysis of a complex multitude of social-psychological and cultural-environmental factors affecting the consumer’s decision we construct a stochastic model. Because of the diminishing effect of even advertising policy, we consider advertising pulsing ...

We evaluated the results of two surveys of neonatal bilirubin determinations in 66 Slovakian clinical chemistry laboratories. Identical control samples prepared as described by Vink (Clin. Chem. 33 (1987) 1817-1821) and commercially available control serum were used for both surveys. These control samples were analysed in the participating laboratories using various modifications of diazo techn...

abstract: in this study, it has been tried to test the accuracy of output and hence the model efficiency in the predictions of 24 and 48 hour precipitation forecasting by choosing different schemes be assessed. therefore, in order to test the accuracy of model product, two conditions of rainfall precipitation and lack of rainfall precipitation were considered. four thresholds were taken. adapti...

Quality analysis of a collected depth dataset is important in order to find the statistic accuracy and variance of the depth data. Any systematic errors have to be identified and if possible minimised. It is also important to establish if the data fulfils the accuracy standard stated in the survey specification. The accuracy of collected depth data depends on several parameters such as the accu...

201 Modern society has placed a high premium on good health, a lean body, and comeliness. As a nation we eat better, exercise more, and seek a healthier lifestyle to achieve physical well being. A national consensus seems to exist that a well-proportioned body is a thing of beauty. It is no wonder, therefore, that obesity, a caricature of the beautiful body, has been responsible for ridicule an...

in this paper, a new method is presented for the detection of defects in random textures. in the training stage, the feature vectors of the normal textures’ images are extracted by using the optimal response of gabor wavelet filters, and their probability density is estimated by means of the gaussian mixture model (gmm). in the testing stage, similar to the previous stage,at  first, the feature...

gully erosion is one of the most severe types of water erosion that inclusive and global model to represent its development under different environmental circumstances is difficult. moreover, having knowledge about history behaviors of a gully and its advancement requires direct annual monitoring that is not possible in iran conditions because of cost and time. gis and remote sensing with provi...