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Increasing competition (whether for-profit or nonprofit) is forcing businesses to pay much more attention to satisfying customers, including by providing strong customer service. It may help the reader to notice the role of customer service in the overall context of product or service development and management. Wal-Mart is a chain of retail stores operated by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. an American ...

This article explores dominant ideological framings of the economic crisis that began in 2008, by examining shifting meanings of consumer citizenship in the US. The consumer citizen was a central figure in Keynesian ideology—one that encapsulated important assumptions about the proper relationship between production and consumption and the appropriate arenas for citizen engagement with the econ...

This paper describes the modeling of a data mart designed for use as a data repository in the “knowledge discovery in data bases” (KDD) process applied to a multimedia metadata environment whose data structure is based on the MHEG-5 standard. The data mart design uses the features of the original repository which are meaningful for the KDD process. The typical data warehouse structure was adapt...

High-throughput sequencing is now routinely performed in many experiments. But the analysis of the millions of sequences generated, is often beyond the expertise of the wet labs who have no personnel specializing in bioinformatics. Whereas several tools are now available to map high-throughput sequencing data on a genome, few of these can extract biological knowledge from the mapped reads. We h...

Dendritic cells (DC) are potent stimulators of primary T cell responses. In this study, we demonstrate that DC, genetically engineered to express the MART-1/Melan-A (MART-1) tumor-associated Ag, express MART-1 mRNA and protein, correctly process and present the HLA-A2.1-restricted immunodominant MART-1 peptide (MART-1(27-35)), and serve as potent stimulators of MART-1-specific CTL in vitro. A r...

Due to the international economic competition, enterprises are ever looking for efficient methods to build data marts/warehouses to analyze the large data volume in their decision making process. On the other hand, even though the relational data model is the most commonly used model, any data mart/warehouse construction method must now deal with other data types and in particular XML documents...

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) capture large amounts of data that is difficult or impractical to report and analyze directly from the capture device. It is also common to have more than one NIDS device and reporting from a consolidated multi-NIDS device. To provide a platform for multi-NIDS device reporting and analysis, this paper describes a consolidated database, or Data Mart des...