For many applications of nonlinear regression, theory does not guide the model building process by suggesting a relevant functional form. This research develops a new technique for use in this situation. Called STAT-ANN, the new method provides modelling flexibility similar to a neural network but provides a statistical basis for model selection, interpretation, and validation by following a tw...

A meticulous analysis of the influential factors in Higher education marketing and the provision of a framework can be beneficial. The present study aimed at the identification and the analysis of the social factors influential in higher education marketing according to which a model was developed. The study was practical in terms of the aim and employed field research and a mixed-method approa...

This study evaluates the current status of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) research through an exhaustive literature review of relevant articles. We have identified a total of 83 eWOM research articles published from 2001 through 2010. Published research into eWOM first appeared in peerreviewed journals about ten years ago, and research has been steadily increasing. Among research topic area, t...

Today, the world faces a major problem called population growth, one of the consequences of which is food shortages. Therefore, organic farming is considered as one of the most effective approaches to responding to the challenges facing human beings in realizing sustainable development. The purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive model of branding for sensory marketing based on a...

University of Twente The paper assesses the current standing of the 4Ps Marketing Mix framework as the dominant marketing management paradigm and identifies market developments, environmental changes, and trends, as well as changing academic attitudes likely to affect the future of the Mix as theoretical concept and also the favourite management tool of marketing practitioners. It reviews the c...

Finding new ways to compete in competitive markets is the essence of strategic thinking and marketing strategy. This issue has always been addressed by the experts and scholars of economics and management overrecent decades. In this regard, the present study explores the entrepreneurial strategies to gain a competitive advantage in IlamProvincemedicinal plants. This studyemployed a mixed-method...

Many marketing scholars have seriously debated the status of marketing as a discipline and in the corporate practice (see for example the special issue of Journal of Marketing, October 2005). Have marketing scholars specialised excessively on narrow perspectives and thus failed to look at the bigger picture in theory and practice? Consequently, it is no wonder that this main theme of the EMAC 2...

the study was carried out to develop an efficient approach for prediction the genotoxicity of carbon nanotubes. the experimental data on the bacterial reverse mutation test (ta100) on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) was collected from the literature and examined as an endpoint. by means of the optimal descriptors calculated with the monte carlo method a mathematical model of the endpoint...