Vol. LII (August 2015), 467–481 467 © 2015, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Uma R. Karmarkar is Assistant Professor in Marketing, Harvard Business School, Harvard University (e-mail: [email protected]). Baba Shiv is the Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (e-mail: [email protected]...

The 40 thieves realize that the fortune in their cave is vanishing. A rumor says that Ali Baba has been granted access (in the form of a certificate) to the cave but they need evidence to get justice from the Caliph. On the other hand, Ali Baba wants to be able to securely access to the cave without leaking any evidence. A similar scenario holds in the biometric passport application: Ali Baba w...

background: the association of epstein-barr virus (ebv) with burkitt’s lymphoma (bl) is variable in different geographic regions. in developing countries, the association of ebv with bl is regarded to be of an endemic-type in equatorial africa ( > 95%) and sporadic-type in the developed countries (15-30%). the purpose of this study is to assess the frequency of ebv infection in bl, in iran. the...

the features of helicobacter pylori adhesins, their interactions with their host counterparts, regulated and selective gene expressions are amongst the many clever strategies this microorganism undertakes to survive the otherwise sterile gastric milieu. the ingenious crafting of these interactions and the respective host reactions govern, in part, an array of consequences ranging from asymptoma...

This paper summarizes the author's paper (presented in KR-94 and titled \Directional Resolution: The Davis-Putnam Procedure, Revisited" [Dechter and Rish, 1994]), focusing on its empirical aspects. It compares a resolution based variant of the Davis-Putnam algorithm with a backtracking variant and highlights their sensitivity (or insensitivity) to the problems' structure. Experiments show that ...

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