AN EXPERIMENTAL CUSTOMER SATISFACTION INDEX TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF CITY LOGISTICS SERVICES


Ontological Foundation for Representing Metaphors as Part of LOD

The main goal of this study was to lay the foundation for the representation of written metaphors as Linked Open Data (LOD) on the Semantic Web (SW).To achieve this goal, this study proposed concepts and properties that allow metaphors from different domains to be linked.The use of the proposed formalism was illustrated through a case study of bibl

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Human Texture Vision as Multi-Order Spectral Analysis

Texture information plays a critical role in the rapid perception of scenes, objects, and materials.Here, we propose a novel model in which visual texture perception is essentially determined by the 1st-order (2D-luminance) and 2nd-order (4D-energy) spectra.This model is an extension of the dimensionality of the Filter-Rectify-Filter (FRF) model, a

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A Case Series of Survival Outcomes in Patients with Advanced-stage IIIb/IV Non-small-cell Lung Cancer Treated with HangAm-Plus

Background and Objectives: Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents approximately 80% of all lung cancers.Unfortunately, at their time of diagnosis, most patients have advanced to unresectable disease with a very poor prognosis.The oriental herbal medicine HangAm-Plus (HAP) has been developed for antitumor purposes, and several previous studie

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Seasonal predictability of baroclinic wave activity

Abstract Midlatitude baroclinic waves drive extratropical weather and climate variations, but their predictability beyond 2 weeks has been deemed low.Here we analyze a read more large ensemble of climate simulations forced by observed sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and demonstrate that seasonal variations of baroclinic wave activity (BWA) are pote

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