a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Customer response predictive model Knowledge-based marketing RFM Neural networks Decision tree models Logistic regression Decision support techniques and models for marketing decisions are critical to retail success. Among different marketing domains, customer segmentation or profiling is recognized as an important area in research and industry practice. Various ...

Aim: Access to essential medicines is a key component of managing patients in ambulatory care. In 2008, the State Minas Gerais, Brazil, created Pharmacy Network (Rede Farmácia de [RFM]) program improve access medicines, increasing availability and restructuring infrastructures. The aim was assess current situation, comparing municipalities with without RFM. Materials & methods: Descriptive ...

The objective was to quantify the incidence of tarsal lesions and level of hygiene by stall bed type. Cows were scored on 100 dairies from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, and New York in the fall and winter. Thirty-eight dairies used rubber-filled mattresses (RFM), 27 had sand beds, 29 had waterbeds, and 6 used compost packs (CPk). Stocking density, stall dimensions, bedding amount, beddin...

The energy recovery and utilization of high-pressure brine are the key to reduce cost. Reducing flow rate method (RFM) was put forward firstly adapt pump as turbine (PAT) a wide range operating conditions in this paper. In order validate advantages new method, three different designs PAT were obtained, respectively, based on methods, which were, selection design curved RFM. Based numerical exte...

ABSTRACT: Due to the development of spatial resolution, spectral resolution and multi-image tasking of high-resolution satellite images, the generation of digital surface model (DSM) from high-resolution satellite images becomes an important and practical application. Nowadays, different image matching approaches such as global matching and semi-global matching has been developed to obtain dens...