In recent times, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has been defined as relating to sales, marketing, and even services automation. Additionally, the concept is increasingly associated with cost savings and streamline processes as well as with the engendering, nurturing and tracking of relationships with customers. Much less associations appear to be attributed to the creation, storage and ...

Despite the growing demand of tourism in Malaysia, there are no resolute efforts to develop beaches as tourist destinations. With no incentives to monitor public beaches or to use them in a sustainable manner, they might eventually degenerate in quality as a result of influx of pollutants. This calls for concerted action plans with a view to promoting their sustainable use. The success of such ...

Textual criticism consists of the identification and analysis of variant readings among different versions of a text. Being a relatively simple task for modern languages, the collation of medieval text traditions ranges from the complex to the virtually impossible depending on the degree of instability of textual transmission. We present a visual analytics environment that supports computationa...

South Africa is blessed with one of the richest floras in the world, which--not surprisingly--includes many poisonous plants. Theiler in the founding years believed that plants could be involved in the aetiologies of many of the then unexplained conditions of stock, such as gousiekte and geeldikkop. His subsequent investigations of plant poisonings largely laid the foundation for the future Sec...

The human brain was the greatest medical and philosophical fascination of the human body. Mankind was no longer content, to know the anatomical makeup of the brain, but we now wanted to understand how this organ performed so many complex functions. This multi-disciplinary collation gave birth to the field of Neuroscience. Its goal was to explore and understand the physiological and psychologica...

There are several techniques of Psychophysiology data collation from human subjects. But, we focused in this paper to present the emotion detection of EEG brain signals using a classifier which is known as Support Vector Machine (SVM). The emotions were elicited in the subjects through the presentation of emotional stimuli. These stimuli were extracted from International Affective Picture Syste...

Open Journal of Big Data (OJBD) (www.ronpub.com/ojbd) is an open access journal, which addresses the aspects of Big Data, including new methodologies, processes, case studies, poofs-of-concept, scientific demonstrations, industrial applications and adoption. This editorial presents two articles published in the first issue of the second volume of OJBD. The first article is about the investigati...

Fluorescent protein (FP) tagging approaches are widely used to determine the subcellular location of plant proteins. Here we give a brief overview of FP approaches, highlight potential technical problems, and discuss what to consider when designing FP/protein fusion constructs and performing transformation assays. We analyze published FP tagging data sets along with data from proteomics studies...

House mice from 24 Scottish and Faroese islands show positive correlation of skeletal size with island area, conforming to a model of resource limitation in very small islands. Molar size is not correlated with island size, suggesting greater genetic canalization; smaller individuals have larger tooth to body size ratio. The size variation may have a simple genetic basis or may be ecophenotypic...

Founders & Survivors is a multi-university and public collaborative project that is building a transnational and inter-generational dataset of life courses generated from the UNESCO recognized convict records of Tasmania. This paper outlines the technical history of the project: mass digitization and archiving online of over 100,000 images; manual scholarly transcription; TEI standard XML data ...