The authors present a unified strategic framework that enables competing marketing strategy options to be traded off on the basis of projected financial return, which is operationalized as the change in a firm’s customer equity relative to the incremental expenditure necessary to produce the change. The change in the firm’s customer equity is the change in its current and future customers’ life...

Objective: Removal of enamel superficial layer during microabrasion treatments may adversely affect sealing ability of the restorative materials. The aim of this study was to measure the effect of different periods of enamel microabrasion on the microleakage of class V glass-ionomer restorations. Methods: This in vitro experimental study was conducted on 96 Class V cavities which had been pr...

OBJECTIVE To develop an intraoperative method for margin status evaluation during breast conservation therapy (BCT) using an automated analysis of imprint cytology specimens. STUDY DESIGN Imprint cytology samples were prospectively taken from 47 patients undergoing either BCT or breast reduction surgery. Touch preparations from BCT patients were taken on cut sections through the tumor to gene...

Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies---who did what to whom---from natural language sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of the problem solved in different ways by diverse human languages, namely, how to indicate the relationship between different parts of a sentence. Understanding how languages solve the problem can be extremely useful in ...

As promised previously l-z here is the list of authors most cited by social scientists. This list is based on data taken from our Social Sciences Citation Index ‘m (SSCI’U) from 1969 to 1977. We have arranged the list by discipline. Psychology (including psychoanalytic theory) is by far the largest field and is thus subdivided into specialties. Arranging the list categorically should prevent in...

Chrysanthemum cur flowers have many benefits in that they can be used for flower bouquets, pollution absorbers, and even traditional medicinal plants. One of the national chrysanthemum cutting centers is Cianjur Regency, which contributes 53% total production West Java Province. Every year, this high cut also followed by higher price differences between farmer final seller levels. This study ai...

BACKGROUND Intra- and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is the most common cancer in Thailand, especially in the northeast region. Most extrahepatic CCA patients consult a doctor at a late stage. Surgery is still the best treatment. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate survival rates and factors affecting survival in extrahepatic CCA patients following surgery at Srinagarind H...

BACKGROUND Fluticasone furoate (FF)/vilanterol (VI) 100/25 mcg is a once-daily inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long-acting beta2 agonist (LABA) treatment approved in the United States, Canada and Europe for the long-term maintenance therapy of COPD. We report data from mixed treatment comparisons (MTC) of once-daily FF/VI against established twice-daily ICS/LABA combination therapies on clinical e...