marketers apply a variety of approaches to attract customers and gain more profits. one method is the utilization of nostalgia marketing. the use of nostalgic sport characters has not been sufficiently studied. this research determined the reliability and validity of the questionnaires presented in the studies evoked nostalgia by pascal et al. (2002), familiarity with nostalgic character by mey...

Today, practitioners often have to face a number of challenges during the standardization of business processes, and some processes can be standardized easier (with less effort) than others. Our previous research has shown that major drivers of successful business process standardization are the characteristics respectively the complexity of a particular business process. In order to minimize s...

clinicians should be aware of new developments to familiarize themselves with pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of new anticoagulant agents to appropriately and safely use them. for the moment, cardiologists and other clinicians also require to master currently available drugs, realizing the mechanism of action, side effects, and laboratory monitoring to measure their anticoag...

A standardization algorithm based on the application of Tucker3 models on the tensorized measurement signals is proposed to transfer calibration information between two Raman spectrometers. The secondary instrument in this study is a low cost and portable CCD based unit employing an efficient 532 nm green laser. The primary instrument is a high performance Fourier-transform based laboratory ins...

Standardization of business processes is considered as an important instrument in the context of business process management. However, research in that field has mostly focused on the impact of business process standardization on business process performance while only a few attempts have been made to determine the success factors for effective process standardization, yet. Moreover, a major is...

A study on the automatic classification of musical instrument sounds is presented. A database of musical instrument sounds parameters was built for this purpose, which consists of musical instrument recordings and their parametric representation. The parameterization process was conceived and performed in order to find significant musical instrument sound features and to remove redundancy from ...

This article discusses the risks of standardization and ipsatization in longitudinal studies. First, it summarizes some common purposes of standardization in psychological studies. Second, it explains why and when standardization and ipsatization are problematic in the analysis of longitudinal data and profiles. Third, it shows alternative ways to achieve similar purposes while avoiding the risks.

The application of mixture models to flexibly estimate linear and nonlinear effects in the SEM framework has received increasing attention (e.g., Jedidi et al., 1997b; Bauer, 2005; Muthén and Asparouhov, 2009; Wall et al., 2012; Kelava and Brandt, 2014; Muthén and Asparouhov, 2014). The advantage of mixture models is that unobserved subgroups with class-specific relationships can be extracted (...

Recent efforts to achieve global standardization of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) including noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM), especially through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and related research, are surveyed. Since the unification of terminology for SPM is a prerequisite for standardization, it should have the first priority, followed by the unification...