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Efficiency of rice farming households in Vietnam
Hoang Linh, Vu - In: International Journal of Development Issues 11 (2012) 1, pp. 60-73
/methodology/approach – A bootstrap method is used to provide statistical precision of the DEA estimator. Technical efficiency is modeled as a …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate technical efficiency obtained from both data envelopment analysis … approaches indicate that among other things, technical efficiency is significantly influenced by primary education and regional …
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A New Method for Building Probabilistic Ontology (Prob-Ont)
Hlel, Emna; Jamoussi, Salma; Ben Hamadou, Abdelmajid - In: International Journal of Information Technology and Web … 12 (2017) 2, pp. 1-25
During the past years, ontologies are widely used for representing knowledge of complex domains. Despite that the ontologies (classical ontologies) have become standard for representing knowledge; however, they are not able to represent and reason with uncertainty which is one of the...
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Semantic Reconciliation of Electronic Health Records Using Semantic Web Technologies
Demurjian, Steven A.; El Guemhioui, Karim - In: International Journal of Information Technology and Web … 12 (2017) 2, pp. 26-48
In this paper, the authors present an approach to reconcile the semantics of distinct medical terms found in personal health records (PHRs - that store data controlled by patients) and electronic medical records (EMRs - that store data controlled by providers) that are utilized to describe the...
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Inferring Intent and Action from Gaze in Naturalistic Behavior: A Review
Lukander, Kristian; Toivanen, Miika; Puolamäki, Kai - In: International Journal of Mobile Human Computer … 9 (2017) 4, pp. 41-57
technologies toward pervasive wearable solutions allows studying inference also in everyday activities outside research … laboratories. This paper scopes the emerging field and reviews studies focusing on the inference of intent and action in … challenges, gaze-based inference holds a clear promise for machine-based understanding of human intent and future interactive …
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SiMAMT: A Framework for Strategy-Based Multi-Agent Multi-Team Systems
Franklin, D. Michael; Hu, Xiaolin - In: International Journal of Monitoring and Surveillance … 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-29
different components of the framework, including strategy simulation, strategy inference, strategy evaluation, and strategy …
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On Neglected Opportunities And Entrepreneurial Discovery
Choi, Young Back - In: Journal des �conomistes et des �tudes Humaines 12 (2002) 1
The idea of entrepreneurial discovery of profitable opportunities neglected by others as the driving force of the market process is the key contribution of Kirzner to economics. However, to enrich our understanding of the process of entrepreneurial discovery and to derive testable implications...
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Weapons of mass intrusion: the leveraging of ambush marketing strategies
Anthony Carrillat, François; Colbert, Francois; … - In: European Journal of Marketing 48 (2014) 1/2, pp. 314-335
Purpose – The study presented in this article aims to examine the impact of the leveraging of three distinct ambush marketing strategies that are under-researched in the literature: Promotion, Event, and Broadcast. Design/methodology/approach – An experiment was conducted where the type of...
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Multi-Criteria Recommender Systems: A Survey and a Method to Learn New User's Profile
Hdioud, Ferdaous; Frikh, Bouchra; Ouhbi, Brahim; … - In: International Journal of Mobile Computing and … 8 (2017) 4, pp. 20-48
A Recommender System (RS) works much better for users when it has more information. In Collaborative Filtering, where users' preferences are expressed as ratings, the more ratings elicited, the more accurate the recommendations. New users present a big challenge for a RS, which has to providing...
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A simplified approach to bias estimation for correlations
Liu, Xiaofeng Steven - In: Epidemiologic Methods 10 (2021) 1
Abstract Objectives We introduce a simple and unified methodology to estimate the bias of Pearson correlation coefficients, partial correlation coefficients, and semi-partial correlation coefficients. Methods Our methodology features non-parametric bootstrapping and can accommodate small sample...
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Trading Rule Profitability and Central Bank Interventions in the Dollar-Deutsch mark Market / Der Zusammenhang zwischen der Profitabilität einer technischen Handelsstrategie und Ze...
Frenkel, Michael; Stadtmann, Georg - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 224 (2004) 6, pp. 653-672
Summary The paper examines the relationship between central bank interventions in the dollar-deutschmark market and the profitability of technical trading for the period 1979-1992. While previous work on this topic focused on the interventions of the Fed, we include data on Bundesbank...
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