...Research paper Business Intelligence in the Market By Bryan Bock Dr. Traci O'Neill Business Marketing Montana Tech of The University of Montana December, 13 2012 Abstract Businesses today are working more towards predicting the future, how employees will connect with customers, any way or trend the business can find to improve sales and profit. Business Intelligence is used in the market all around the world in many different areas. Businesses are benefitted from the different types of BI methods all the time. Two of the BI methods that are beneficial are called the Market Basket Analysis (MBA) and the Decision Tree Analysis. These two BI methods are used throughout businesses in areas such as marketing, financing, Real estate, and accounting. Both of these methods help business similarly, but in their own different ways. They are two different types of methods that both help businesses make the best decisions to benefit their company. There are many methods or theories that people come up with to help with a business but these are the few that will be examined in this paper. The goal of the modeling technique market basket analysis is to find different relationships of activities that have been recorded with data through the performance of people. This method can be used on any situation where information can be recorded and identified (Pillai, 2011). The way to improve methods for...
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...Journal of Forestry Research (2012) 23(4): 623−630 DOI 10.1007/s11676-012-0303-z ORIGINAL PAPER Shifting cultivation effects on creek water quality around Barkal Upazila in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh Shyamal Karmakar • S. M. Sirajul Haque • M. Mozaffar Hossain • Sohag Miah Received: 2011-07-20; Accepted: 2012-07-20 © Northeast Forestry University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 Abstract: We report the effects of shifting cultivation on water quality in 16 creeks investigated once in 2007 and twice in 2008 in 16 apparently similar small neighboring watersheds, each of 3 to 5 ha, at four locations around Barkal sub-district under Rangamati District of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Concentrations of SO42- and K+, and pH in creek water were lower, and NO3-N and Na+ concentrations were higher in shifting-cultivation land compared to land with either plantation or natural forest or a combination of these cover types. Shifting cultivation effects on some water quality parameters were not significant due to change in land cover of the watershed between two sampling periods either through introduction of planted tree species or naturally regenerated vegetation. Conductivity and concentrations of HCO3-, PO43-, Ca2+ and Mg2+ in creek water showed no definite trend between shifting cultivation and the other land cover types. At one area near the Forest Range Office of Barkal, creek water pH was 5.8 under land cover with a combination...
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...The following question appeared in paper 2 of the June 2015 additional examination (actual question number 4.3): Drug-testing kits are sometimes used in schools. The current drug test which uses blood or urine samples is considered to be too personal (invasive). A new drug test, the Saliva Drug Test (SDT), uses saliva and is considered to be less personal than the current test. It can be used to test for up to 9 different types of drugs. The pictures below show the drug-testing instrument and the swab used to take a sample of saliva. The tree diagram below shows the outcomes of the SDT after testing the saliva of the same person twice. Study the tree diagram above to answer the following questions. 1. Give the probability (as a common fraction) of obtaining both...
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...College of Engineering, Gurgaon-122001, India Email:sujeet.16939@ggnindia.dronacharya.info, Ashish Gupta Department of Information and technology Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon-122001, India Email:ashish.16907@ggnindia.dronacharya.info Abstract-Arrays and linked lists are two basic data structures used to store information. We may wish to search, insert or delete records in a database based on a key value. This section examines the performance of these operations on arrays and linked lists. In this research paper we studied about the sorting and types of sorting. This is followed by techniques for implementing dictionaries, structures that allow efficient search, insert, and delete operations. We have also illustrated algorithms that sort data and implement dictionaries for very large files Keywords-insertion sort, quick sort, sort ,binary search tree, skip list. 1. Introduction Arrays and linked lists are two basic data structures used to store information. We may wish to search, insert or delete records in a database based on a key value. This section examines the performance of these operations on arrays and linked lists. 1.1 Arrays Figure 1-1 shows an array, seven elements long, containing numeric values. To search the array sequentially, we may use the algorithm in Figure 1-2. The maximum number of comparisons is 7, and occurs when the key we are searching for is in A[6]. Figure 1-1: An Array ...
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...forest resource of Bangladesh in a sustainable way. Acknowledgement In performing my assignment, it's a successful one I had to take the help and guideline of some respected persons. First of all I am grateful to Allah who gives me sound mind & sound health to accomplish my assignment. The completion of the report gives me much Pleasure. I would like to thank my gratitude Mr. Md. Jakariya (Jky), Course Instructor of Introduction to Environmental Science, Sec 4, North South University, Bangladesh for giving me a good guideline for assignment. I would like to thank School of Business Studies, North South University for updated education system in Bangladesh. Lastly I would like to deliver my whole hearted thanks to the persons of Forest Department of Bangladesh for their cordial cooperation. Actually it was not possible for me to complete a severe task without such help. So I pray the long life and good health for all the persons who have helped and co-operated me in my assignment research. Sabrina Alvi 20 December, 2013 Table of content Title | Page | Introduction | | Forest of Bangladesh Table 1:Forest area in Bangladesh Table 2:Forest types of Bangladesh | | Forest Management in Bangladesh | | Current trend...
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...pressure exists in a variety of teen television shows, including One Tree Hill. This example also demonstrates how other teens respond to peer pressure and how it is often connected with bullying. Finally, I will discuss how peer pressure can affect one’s ability to achieve both academically and socially in the school environment. According to the lecture notes (Glozman, lecture notes, FRHD*2280, January 9, 2014) adolescence is defined as a period of the life course between the time puberty begins and the time adult status is approached. During this stage, young people are in the process of preparing to take on the roles and responsibilities associated with adulthood in their culture. During adolescence, we have noticed that peers play a large role in a young person’s life and typically replace family as the center of a teen’s social and leisure activities. Often time’s adolescents have various peer relationships and interact with a wide range of peer groups. As adolescents begin to pull away from their parents in search for their own identity, their friends usually become a more important aspect in their life. This is often because teens feel like their close friends understand them better than their parents; they learn more from their friends and feel like they can be more themselves around their friends. There is no doubt, as people form closer relationships with one another they are influenced and affected by one another’s choices. To me, peer pressure seems...
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...diverse species living and interacting with one another which will be explored in the remainder of this paper. Ponderosa Pine-Mallow Ninebark-Elk Sedge Community In the first slope named Ponderosa Pine-Mallow Ninebark-Elk Sedge, one of the most dominant intraspecific interactions is competition for resources. At slope one there is significant coverage of vegetation as seen by the PAR and Overstory...
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...Sources (paper) Articles, books, reports, government documents, corporate author, etc. Electronic Sources (online/web) articles, ebooks, reports, broadcast, data, blogs, wiki, podcasts, etc., More Help with APA APA Web Sites and Tutorials PDF version (5th Edition) Return to Library Home Page American Psychological Association or APA style is widely accepted in the Social Sciences. For more information consult the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association located on 2 North Reference and in Dictionary Stands on all floors: BF 76.7 P83 2010. Publication Manual sections are noted in square brackets [ ]. CITING REFERENCES IN TEXT [6.11-6.22] Throughout the body of your paper, briefly note the author and date of research that you mention. Enough information is needed to identify the correct source in the References list at the end of your paper. For more information and examples, see Table 6.1 in the 6th ed. Publication Manual. Author and Date Cited in Text (no parenthetical citation necessary) In a 1989 article, Gould explores some of Darwin's most effective metaphors. Author Not Cited in Text As metaphors for the workings of nature, Darwin used the tangled bank, the tree of life, and the face of nature (Gould, 1989). Author Cited in Text Gould (1989) attributes Darwin's success to his gift for making the appropriate metaphor. Direct Quotation with Name of Author Gould (1989) explains that Darwin used the metaphor of the tree of life...
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...this definition does not include “logging”. More inclusive was Myers’s 1980 definition, where deforestation refers, “generally to the complete destruction of forest cover through clearing for agriculture … [so] … that not a tree remains, and the land is given over to non-forest purposes … [and where] very heavy and unduly negligent logging … [result in a] … decline of biomass and depletion of ecosystem services … . So severe that the residual forest can no longer qualify as forest in any practical sense of the world.” Alan Graigner (1980, AS quoted in Saxena and Nautiyal, 1997) asserts that selective logging does not “lead to forest clearance and does not constitute deforestation”, whereas Norman Myers (1980, 1993) thinks that logging is crucial because, although it may only affect a small proportion of trees per hectare, it damages wide areas and is the precursor of penetration by the forest farmers. For the purpose of this study, the FAO’s latest definitions (1993) will be used. The FAO defines forests as “ecosystems with a minimum of 10% crown cover of trees and/or bamboo, generally associated with wild flora, fauna, and natural soil conditions, and not subject to agricultural practices” and deforestation as a “change of land use with a depletion of tree crown cover to less than 10% crown cover”. “A livelihood comprises the assets (natural, physical, human, financial and social capital), activities, and the access to...
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...the required industry relevant ERP competencies. The majority of these education and training programmes utilise large ERP systems for instructional purposes, however users of these systems encounter usability issues whilst learning to use the systems. The use of medium-sized ERP systems has been proposed for educational purposes as they are less complex and easier to learn than large ERP systems. Empirical studies on the usability of ERP systems, particularly for medium-sized ERP systems are limited. This paper reports on empirical research on the usability evaluation of a medium-sized ERP system. The study identified three categories of criteria and 10 criteria which can be used for usability evaluations of medium-sized ERP systems. The criteria were used in a case study to evaluate the usability of a medium-sized ERP system and to obtain qualitative feedback on the usability of the system. The most frequently reported positive usability features of the ERP system were the tree-structure of the menus and the grouping of logically related items. Negative features which were reported included the clutter of the user interface and difficulties with finding information and controls. These results can provide valuable insight into the ERP learning process for university...
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...FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT http://mycourses.hult.edu MODULE B 2012-13 INSTRUCTOR Professor Xiaozu Wang EMAIL xiaozu.wang@faculty.hult.edu INSTRUCTOR AVAILABILITY Please contact by email CLASS TIMES & ROOM(S) MIB1: Jan 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 1:30-4:50, Feb. 1, 9:00-12:20, Feb. 7, 1:30-4:50 COURSE AIMS AND DESCRIPTION OF CONTENT This is an introductory course of finance for MIB students. The course aims to provide students with a conceptual framework and a set of technical tools for making corporate investment decisions. The focus will be maximizing the value of the firm and capital budgeting. Some ethical issues will be highlighted throughout the course. INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Key (Assessed) Learning Outcomes: On completion of this course, students should understand and be able to do the following: 1. Estimate the cost of capital for corporate investment decisions; 2. Make corporate investment decisions using discounted cash flow method; 3. Manage working capital and corporate long-term growth. Supplemental Learning Outcomes: While not assessed, it is anticipated that students will develop the following: 4. Understand the importance of corporate governance for achieving long-term corporate financial objectives and valuation; 5. Understand some unique features of Chinese capital markets. TEACHING AND LEARNING The course will be a mixture of lectures, case discussions and individual and group practices. Students are expected to do the following. 1. 2...
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...Agroforestry in the drylands of eastern Africa: a call to action Bashir Jama and Abdi Zeila Agroforestry in the drylands of eastern Africa: a call to action Bashir Jama and Abdi Zeila World Agroforestry Centre LIMITED CIRCULATION Titles in the Working Paper Series aim to disseminate information on agroforestry research and practices and stimulate feedback from the scientific community. Other series from the World Agroforestry Centre are: Agroforestry Perspectives, Technical Manuals, and Occasional Papers. Correct Citation: Jama B and Zeila A. 2005. Agroforestry in the drylands of eastern Africa: a call to action. ICRAF Working Paper – no. 1. Nairobi: World Agroforestry Centre. Published by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme United Nations Avenue PO Box 30677 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 7224 000, via USA +1 650 833 6645 Fax: +254 20 7224 001, via USA +1 650 833 6646 Email: b.jama@cgiar.org Internet: www.worldagroforestry.org © World Agroforestry Centre 2005 ICRAF Working Paper no. 1 Photos: World Agroforestry Centre Staff Articles appearing in this publication may be quoted or reproduced without charge, provided the source is acknowledged. No use of this publication may be made for resale or other commercial purposes. All images remain the sole property of their source and may not be used for any purpose without written permission of the source. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and...
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...University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695–8206 Email: ⇤ pyang3@ncsu.edu, † robertsd@csc.ncsu.edu Abstract—When doing post-competition analysis in team games, it can be hard to figure out if a team members’ character attribute development has been successful directly from game logs. Additionally, it can also be hard to figure out how the performance of one team member affects the performance of another. In this paper, we present a data-driven method for automatically discovering patterns in successful team members’ character attribute development in team games. We first represent team members’ character attribute development using time series of informative attributes. We then find the thresholds to separate fast and slow attribute growth rates using clustering and linear regression. We create a set of categorical attribute growth rates by comparing against the thresholds. If the growth rate is greater than the threshold it is categorized as fast growth rate; if the growth rate is less than the threshold it is categorized as slow growth rate. After obtaining the set of categorical attribute growth rates, we build a decision tree on the set. Finally, we characterize the patterns of team success in terms of rules which describe team members’ character attribute growth rates. We present an evaluation of our methodology on three real games: DotA,1 Warcraft III,2 and Starcraft II.3 A standard machine-learning-style evaluation of the experimental results shows the discovered...
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...SCHEME OF EXAMINATION FOR MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (MCA) (SIX-SEMESTER Programme) |Semester – I | |Paper |Title of the Paper |Duration |Maximum Marks |Total | |No. | |Of Exam | | | | | | |Theory |Sessional* | | |MCA-101 |Computer Fundamentals and Problem Solving Using C |3 Hours |80 |20 |100 | |MCA-102 |Computer Organisation |3 Hours |80 |20 |100 | |MCA-103 |Discrete Mathematical Structures |3 Hours |80 |20 |100 | |MCA-104 |Software Engineering |3 Hours |80 |20 |100 | |MCA-105 |Computer Oriented Numerical and Statistical Methods |3 Hours |80 |20 |100 | |MCA-106 |Software Laboratory - I |3 Hours | | |100 | | |C (Based on MCA-101) |...
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...rapid growth of the market in every sector is leading to a bigger subscriber base for service providers. More competitors, new and innovative business models and better services are increasing the cost of customer acquisition. In this environment service providers have realized the importance of the retention of existing customers. Therefore, providers are forced to put more efforts for prediction and prevention of churn. This paper aims to present commonly used data mining techniques for the identification of churn. Based on historical data these methods try to find patterns which can point out possible churners. Well-known techniques used for this are Regression analysis, Decision Trees, Neural Networks and Rule based learning. In section 1 we give a short introduction describing the current state of the market, then in section 2 a definition of customer churn, its’ types and the imporance of identification of churners is being discussed. Section 3 reviews different techniques used, pointing out advantages and disadvantages. Finally, current state of research and new emerging algorithms are being presented. given a huge choice of offers and different service providers to decide upon, winning new customers is a costly and hard process. Therefore, putting more effort in keeping churn low has become essential for service-oriented companies. Van Den Poel and Larivi`re [2] summarize the economic e value of customer retention: • lowering the need to seek new and potentially risky customers...
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