...Esri Location Analytics for Business Intelligence ® An Esri® White Paper October 2012 Copyright © 2012 Esri All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The information contained in this document is the exclusive property of Esri. This work is protected under United States copyright law and other international copyright treaties and conventions. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as expressly permitted in writing by Esri. All requests should be sent to Attention: Contracts and Legal Services Manager, Esri, 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373-8100 USA. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Esri, the Esri globe logo, esri.com, and @esri.com are trademarks, service marks, or registered marks of Esri in the United States, the European Community, or certain other jurisdictions. Other companies and products or services mentioned herein may be trademarks, service marks, or registered marks of their respective mark owners. J10116 Esri Location Analytics for Business Intelligence An Esri White Paper Contents Page Executive Overview.............................................................................. 1 Proven Value of Business Intelligence ................................................. 1 GIS and BI: The Timing Is Right .....................
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...education and health behavior research using item response modeling: comparison with the classical test theory approach Mark Wilson*, Diane D. Allen and Jun Corser Li Abstract This paper compares the approach and resultant outcomes of item response models (IRMs) and classical test theory (CTT). First, it reviews basic ideas of CTT, and compares them to the ideas about using IRMs introduced in an earlier paper. It then applies a comparison scheme based on the AERA/APA/NCME ‘Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests’ to compare the two approaches under three general headings: (i) choosing a model; (ii) evidence for reliability—incorporating reliability coefficients and measurement error—and (iii) evidence for validity—including evidence based on instrument content, response processes, internal structure, other variables and consequences. An example analysis of a self-efficacy (SE) scale for exercise is used to illustrate these comparisons. The investigation found that there were (i) aspects of the techniques and outcomes that were similar between the two approaches, (ii) aspects where the item response modeling approach contributes to instrument construction and evaluation beyond the classical approach and (iii) aspects of the analysis where the measurement models had little to do with the analysis or outcomes. There were no aspects where the classical approach contributed to instrument construction or evaluation beyond what could be done with the IRM approach. Finally, properties...
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...composition, structure of physical evidence/s collected from the scene of the crime are needed to support in the speedy solution of crime. Application of forensic chemistry is legally applied to the following: 1. Primarily, Forensic Chemistry deals in the recognition, identification, preservation, packaging & transportation of physical evidence collected at the crime scene. 2. In crime detection, it is applied in the identification of poisons, blood, semen, feces, urine, saliva, and other body fluids whether fresh or dried. It also include other stains of interests from ob-gynecological origin, mineral stains, fruits and/or vegetable stains. 3. It is involved in determining the kind of ink used in signature writings, and the kind of paper of a questioned document. 4. The knowledge of properties of volatile substance like organic solvents (alcohol, acetone, etc), accelerants (gasoline, kerosene, oils), and miscible materials such as textile fibers from clothing, are applied in forensic analyses of arson cases. 5. Identification of air,...
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...all around the world hire individuals to collect research to help the organization in their weaknesses, enhance a certain area in the company or just to gain knowledge about the competitors in the world. Business research is more significant than people understand it to be. For instance, if a business owner does not do the correct research for location, demographics, etcetera then the company is not going to be in the place it wants to be and the potential for the company would be lost. The functional area that is being addressed in this paper is the restaurant industry. The functional area that I work in is the restaurant business. I do see myself to continue my career in the restaurant industry so I thought that it would be fitting to write the paper with that in mind. Restaurants are always going to be a part of our daily lives. The reason for this is because everybody has to eat and not everyone, as we know, always likes to cook. The restaurant that was in this article, we’ll just call it ABC Restaurant, lacked a proper sense of how to conduct research. The location of this establishment was in what seemed to a prime location, on a main street with plenty of foot traffic. Seemingly enough, the business was not receiving the expected number of people who enters the...
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...The following items are included in the start-up fee: 1. Franchise Fee 2. Grand Opening Marketing 3. Leasehold Improvements 4. Utility and Rent Deposits 5. Training Many people dream of owning a business as opposed to working for another business. The benefits of owning a franchise is priceless if ran properly. This paper will show an estimate amount of variable costs and monthly sales in members and dollars for Snap Fitness. Also included are five examples of variable costs and a summary about purchasing a franchise and the decisions that come along with it. Estimate Amount of Variable Costs A Snap Fitness franchise is estimated to incur fixed operating costs of $4,000 and $2,000 to lease fitness equipment. A newspaper article providing details about fitness centers like Snap Fitness states this form of business may only require 300 members to reach its break-even point. The cost-volume-profit, also known as CVP, analysis will assist Snap Fitness in determining the effects of changes of volume and costs on the business’ profits. The CVP analysis will help the new franchise apply appropriate profit planning. The CVP analysis determines profit by subtracting total revenue from total costs. The equation separates costs into variable and fixed. The equation coverts to profit = total revenue - total variable costs - total fixed costs. The newspaper stated the average break-even point would be 300 members and each member pays a $26 monthly fee to attend a Snap...
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...Competitive Advantage Paper Name University of Phoenix MGT/498 Strategic Management Instructor Date Competitive Advantage Paper Riordan Manufacturing Incorporated engages in plastic injection molding with operations both in the United States and China. As an industry leader, Riordan is in the process of identifying strategic factors in the internal and external environment. The goal is to develop long-range plans to manage resources as well as the opportunities and threats present in the environment. Emerging markets of Asia, some in South America, and in Europe expects to bring in demand for more products. These markets deeply affected by lifestyle changes ushered in by the new age of multimedia, economic growth, industrialization, and growth of personal income will power the expected growth for plastics and other consumer products. Competitive Advantages and Strategies Riordan is a company with business across the globe. Similar to companies like McDonald’s and The Gap, Riordan receives a great deal of pressure to maintain technological perks to the customer, treat the employees well, and support efforts to enforce the protection of the environment. As a global company, special interest groups sometimes have a louder voice than the public; these groups will request, almost demand, the support of the business within the community. For Riordan to remain competitive the company has been very supportive of special interest groups to...
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...Sidi Asia Ndioubnan Strategic Plan, Part II: SWOTT Analysis Date: January 10, 2012 Class: BUS/475 SWOTT analysis is an acronym that stands for: Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Trends and Threats. This analysis gives a company the chance to examine the internal and external factors that can help the company reach an objective. SWOTT analysis is commonly used tool by managers of many different companies to develop a well thought of strategic plan. In this paper I will analyze eight different internal or external forces and trends that could affect Ladies First beauty salon. The information used will be used to create a SWOTT analysis table, which will be featured below. Lastly, the paper will identify the circumstances surrounding each issue, classifying the circumstances, attribute the importance of each classification and testing the accuracy of the importance for each classification. SWOTT Analysis of Ladies First Beauty Salon As stated the in introduction, a SWOTT analysis is a step that should not be over looked when creating or developing a strategic plan because it’s important in simplified the process. The SWOTT analysis where the company has its chance to look at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threads and treads; that are needed to keep the business successful. These elements of the SWOTT deal with the internal as well as the external dwells of the company. The internal elements deal with things happening within the company and the external...
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...Genre Analysis Report for Management of Information system This report aims at examining components, such as the content, organization, and grammar, constructed in one published research article studying security issues in mobile payment from customers’ viewpoint. This paper delivers a clever idea, the idea that the author focuses on studying security issues in mobile payment from perspective of customer even though the previous researchers addressed technical details of security from the perspective of merchants or the mobile payment service providers. Through the analysis of the paper, I have approached security issues in e-payment systems, which is the subject of my research paper, with another aspect, so that I could conduct my research paper to borrow the idea in security issues during the use of e-payment systems. I proceeded to analyze the selective article, following items, such information and language structures, provided by the Genre Analysis Checklist to collect evidence about the organizational and grammatical features employed in the article. Citation Linck, K., Pousttchi, K., & Wiedemann, D. G.( 2006). Security Issues in Mobile Payment from the Customer Viewpoint. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2006), Goteborg, Schweden, 1-11. Introduction The author insists that mobile payment will play an important role in mobile commerce by using the citation of other researchers in the first sentence. And in second...
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...Is the placement of the products going to influence their price? Minjun Yu ECON 4980 Introduction In today’s commodity economy, it is no longer only about manufacturing, transportation, cost, profit, supply, demand, etc. There are many other factors that matters in the sales of the commodity. For many years, retailers have been searching for methods to help them identify ways to improve their merchandise presentation (Ron Larson).One of the methods that retailers used to improve the sales is the display of the products in the aisles. Bezawada has said in his reach that “retailers can benefit substantially by having better placement of items in their aisles,” (Ram Bezawada). Bezawada’s research shows that aisle placements can influence sales across product categories as much as other marketing variables, such as price or how an item is displayed (Jacqueline Ghosen, 2009). According to some researches, changing the allocation of the products will increase the weekly sales by more than 9% (Jacqueline Ghosen, 2009). From all these research, we can see that products placement is one of the most important factor that going to influence retailer’s profits. Putting products in the right place will bring more benefits. In marketing field, there are also some important theories about placement of products. It is called marketing mix which is usually refers to E. Jerome McCarthy's 4P classification for developing an effective marketing strategy. It encompasses product, price, placement...
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...moving fault detection on tracks. Combination positioning methods of train is an important way to improve the reliability of train positioning and accuracy of the point of failure. The multi-sensor information synchronization is an important reason affecting the positioning accuracy. In order to ensure its correction and effectiveness of combination-location information fusion algorithm，as well as to compare and evaluate different fusion algorithms, research on the pretreatment method of the multi-sensor information is necessary. This paper takes the example of resonant voltage measurement with high reliability as the test program of compensation capacitor. To improve the extent of the precise location in point of failure as well as to improve the continuity and real-time of data feedback, finally this paper selects the GPS / DR / MM combination- orientation program to provide positioning information for the dynamic detection system, by comparing a variety of positioning systems. In order to get the most accurate output data, the paper use the adaptive federated Kalman filter algorithm to do the multi-sensor data fusion. Then the paper exchanges the positioning subsystem data and test subsystem data through Ethernet. Using the method of setting the discriminated threshold to discriminate and count the test results, and finally got the completion of the fault locating function. After that, by using electronic...
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...Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, India. Abstract—Data compression coupled with the availability of high bandwidth networks and storage capacity have created the overwhelming production of multimedia content, this paper briefly describes techniques for content-based analysis, retrieval and filtering of News Videos and focuses on basic methods for extracting features and information that will enable indexing and search of any news video based on its content and semantics. The major themes covered by the study include shot segmentation, key frame extraction, feature extraction, clustering, indexing and video retrieval-by similarity, probabilistic, transformational, refinement and relevance feedback. A new caption text extraction algorithm that takes full advantage of the temporal information in a video sequence is developed. Keywords—Shot Boundaries Detection, Inserted Caption Detection, Machine Learning, Face Annotation, Edge/Field Detection. I. INTRODUCTION E ffective techniques for video indexing/searching are required for large visual information systems (such as video databases and video servers). In addition to traditional methods that allow users to search video based on keywords, video query by example and feature-based video search provide powerful tools to complement existing keyword-based search techniques Due to the rich information contained in caption text, video-caption based methods are increasingly used for efficient video content...
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...Similarity based Analysis of Networks of Ultra Low Resolution Sensors Relevance: Pervasive computing, temporal analysis to discover behaviour Method: MDS, Co-occurrence, HMMs, Agglomerative Clustering, Similarity Analysis Organization: MERL Published: July 2006, Pattern Recognition 39(10) Special Issue on Similarity Based Pattern Recognition Summary: Unsupervised discovery of structure from activations of very low resolution ambient sensors. Methods for discovering location geometry from movement patterns and behavior in an elevator scheduling scenario The context of this work is ambient sensing with a large number of simple sensors (1 bit per second giving on-off info). Two tasks are addressed. Discovering location geometry from patterns of sensor activations. And clustering activation sequences. For the former, a similarity metric is devised that measures the expected time of activation of one sensor after another has been activated, on the assumption that the two activations are resulting from movement. The time is used as a measure of distance between the sensors, and MDS is used to arrive at a geometric distribution. In the second part, the observation sequences are clustered by training HMMs for each sequence, and using agglomerative clustering. Having selected an appropriate number of clusters (chosen by the domain expert) the clusters can be used to train new HMM models. The straightforward mapping of the cluster HMMs is to a composite HMM, where each branch of...
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...is to decide for a favorable place or location for their new businesses. Due to our multicultural globus, every country has its specific regulations, markets, interrests, labor, trade zones, facilities and other factores that could affect the decision of the foreing expansion and the choice of the industry location. This paper illustrates the major factors that should influence such decisions. There are several types of observations, how to decide for a specific location for a company. This dicision depend strongly on the activities of the company, in other words with what type of business profile this company identifies itself. There are two major categories in our global observation what a company can be. The first one is the firms that have industrial backround, like goods production. Second one is companies that are based on service. This second category is not descused in this paper due to the less importance of the site selection decision, because it doesn’t matter whether the whole business process is situated at the same location. The communication technologie open the facility to be successfully performend even on different continet. In this paper I will be focused on the industrial corporates that is willing to take the decision of locating its factory somewhere in the global/international trade zones. Introduction How many factores and what factores are the key criterias that influence corporates’ international location decision? A key decision corporations...
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...Fall 2015 Instructor: Ian Kalman Written Assignment: Ethnographic Observation This assignment is an exercise in ethnographic observation. Students are asked to choose a location in the Montreal area for a field site. There, they will spend at least an hour, taking (hand-written) notes on what they observe. Successful sites are those in which, to some extent, what is considered ‘normal’ differs from the observer’s own sense of normal. In other words, students are asked to go to a place where taken-for-granted knowledge differs from their own and report on their experiences and insights. In doing so, you make something that was previously strange slightly more familiar, and write about it. Students are then asked to write their papers in two parts, including both a description and analysis of their experience (total 1800 words maximum). Analyses should be no more than 400 words. Papers will be assigned a grade based on the success with which they, (1) demonstrate they have chosen a site appropriate for anthropological observation, (2) richly describe what they observed, and (3) draw out and support interesting interpretations rooted in their experience. Assignments count for 30% of the student’s final grade. Unexcused late submissions will be penalized five points per day of lateness. Papers must be submitted in word format electronically before 2:30PM on Tuesday, October 20th. Please note that as this is an electronic submission, you will be locked out of the...
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...This paper will compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. It will describe how COMSTAT as an information system (IS) implements the four (4) basic (IS) functions; and it will determine how information systems have allowed police departments that implement tools such as COMPSTAT to respond to crime faster. Finally, this paper will apply the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis (SWOT analysis) on behalf of police departments that intend to implement predictive policing. Compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. Information technology is used by a lot of business organizations for its use of computers and telecommunications to store, retrieve and transmit information. In fact, its e-commerce and social network capabilities strongly influence competitive strategies and the efficiency of operations. As a result, police departments have applied IT in an effort to optimize their departments’ performance to reduce crime. To do so, police departments are using IT for the following reasons: it stores the data of the previous crimes in a single location for easy access, but with street patrolling accessing of data regarding previous crimes takes some extra efforts because the data is not in a single location...
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