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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco +4 more
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Sensor Reliability Evaluation Scheme for Target Classification Using Belief Function Theory
Sensors, 2013 In the target classification based on belief function theory, sensor reliability evaluation has two basic issues: reasonable dissimilarity measure among evidences, and adaptive combination of static and dynamic discounting. One solution to the two issues
Jing Zhu, Yupin Luo, Jianjun Zhou
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An IDEA for short term outbreak projection: nearcasting using the basic reproduction number. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Communicable disease outbreaks of novel or existing pathogens threaten human health around the globe. It would be desirable to rapidly characterize such outbreaks and develop accurate projections of their duration and cumulative size even ...
David N Fisman +3 more
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract Bio‐based ethyl lactate (EL) can replace several fossil‐derived products owing to its low toxicity, high solvent functionality, and environmental advantages. This study assesses the techno‐economic viability and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of producing EL from sugarcane A‐molasses and lignocelluloses in an energy self‐sufficient ...
Motshamonyane J. Phasha +2 more
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A Reinforcement Learning Model of Precommitment in Decision Making
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2010 Addiction and many other disorders are linked to impulsivity, where a suboptimal choice is preferred when it is immediately available. One solution to impulsivity is precommitment: constraining one's future to avoid being offered a suboptimal choice.
Zeb eKurth-Nelson, A. David eRedish
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Using the past to estimate sensory uncertainty
eLife, 2020 To form a more reliable percept of the environment, the brain needs to estimate its own sensory uncertainty. Current theories of perceptual inference assume that the brain computes sensory uncertainty instantaneously and independently for each stimulus ...
Ulrik Beierholm +4 more
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Harnessing Generative AI for Sustainable Supply Chains: Lean, Circular and Green Perspectives
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence is playing a significant role in the transformation of digital ecosystems by reinventing the processes of content generation, process automation, product innovation and customer experience. At the same time that these technologies are becoming more integrated into routine operations, the focus has shifted to ...
Ashutosh Singh +3 more
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Valuation of opportunity costs by rats working for rewarding electrical brain stimulation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Pursuit of one goal typically precludes simultaneous pursuit of another. Thus, each exclusive activity entails an "opportunity cost:" the forgone benefits from the next-best activity eschewed.
Rebecca Brana Solomon +2 more
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract Hydrogen plays a crucial role across multiple industrial sectors and is increasingly recognized as a clean energy carrier with significant potential in decarbonization efforts. Methane pyrolysis (MP), particularly using molten metal catalysts, offers a promising pathway for hydrogen production with low CO2 emissions.
Adrian Paredes Bozzo, Zukui Li
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Optimal dividends for a NatCat insurer in the presence of a climate tipping point
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract We study optimal dividend strategies for an insurance company facing natural catastrophe claims, anticipating the arrival of a climate tipping point after which the claim intensity and/or the claim size distribution of the underlying risks deteriorates irreversibly.
Hansjörg Albrecher +2 more
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