The Ideal Profile Method (IPM) is a descriptive analysis in which consumers are asked to rate products on both their perceived and ideal intensities on a list of attributes. In addition, overall liking is asked. At the end of the test, each consumer provides a sensory profile of the products, hedonic ratings and the ideal profile. From a theoretical point of view this information is of utmost i...

We introduce a method for improving facial attribute predictions using other attributes. In the domain of face recognition and verification, attributes are high-level descriptions of face images. Attributes are very useful for identification as well as image search as they provide easily understandable descriptions of faces, rather than most other image descriptors (i.e. HOG, LBP, and SIFT). A ...

BACKGROUND Emphasis on quantity as the main performance measure may be posing challenges for Family Health Team (FHT) practices and organizational structures. This study asked: What healthcare practices and organizational structures are encouraged by the FHT model? METHODS An exploratory qualitative design guided by discourse analysis was used. This paper presents findings from in-depth semi-...

This study proposes a new method named the IIS-map-based method for analyzing interactions in face-to-face collaborative learning settings. This analysis method is conducted in three steps: firstly, drawing an initial IISmap according to collaborative tasks; secondly, coding and segmenting information flows into information items of IIS; thirdly, computing attributes of information flows and an...

The success of an industry depends on optimization of product cost and for achieving above goal Internal selection should be efficient. In the present study an efficient Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach has been proposed for quality evaluation and performance appraisal in vendor selection. Vendor selection is a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem influenced by several pa...

Sustainable design aims to reduce the negative impacts either on people (e.g., create healthy) or on planet (e.g., minimize waste). In other words, sustainable design is the philosophy that tends to improve design performance by incorporating health and safety attributes (for people), and environmental attributes (for planet) into products. In this paper, we develop an analytical model to exami...

A typical mining problem is the extraction of patterns from subspaces of multidimensional data. Such patterns, known as a biclusters, comprise subsets of objects that behave similarly across subsets of attributes, and may overlap each other, i.e., objects/attributes may belong to several patterns, or to none. For many miners, a key input parameter is the error used which greatly affects the qua...

The present study aimed to identify the most important packaging attributes for purchasing a product not currently on the Brazilian market: antioxidant-rich instant coffee, a blend of roasted coffee and green coffee. Five package types of the same brand of instant antioxidant-rich coffee marketed in different countries were evaluated through a focus group. The attributes’ glass shape, glass lid...

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An enormous quantity of personal health information is available in recent decades and tampering of any part of this information imposes a great risk to the health care field. Existing anonymization methods are only apt for single sensitive and low dimensional data to keep up with privacy specifically like generalization and bucketization. In this paper, an anonymization technique is proposed t...