Charles Dickens portrayed the character Miss Havisham as having post traumatic stress disorder.PTSD, which is experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like a horrible event that had happened in your life which may lead to (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).The symptoms of PTSD which is depression which Miss Havisham shows a lot in book.. For example; “She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on. The other was on the table near her hand, her veil was but half arranged”
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In the story, “Hop-Frog” by Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog’s actions are justified. First of all, the king is unethical and evil. He valued humor over everything else and found it funny to make fun of other people’s flaws or disabilities, even if they couldn’t help it. One of the king’s last actions was the thing that pushed Hop-Frog over the edge: “without uttering a syllable, he pushed her (Trippetta) violently from him, and threw the contents of the brimming goblet in her face” (Poe 3). Trippetta was
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How to Measure Customer Satisfaction Murali Chemuturi Introduction Project-based organizations place a lot of emphasis on customer satisfaction, and rightly so, as customer satisfaction is the key for improving these companies’ internal processes. A customer satisfaction rating (CSR) is often obtained through a questionnaire—the customer satisfaction survey (CSS). This method, however, suffers from the drawback of customers likely being emotionally influenced while filling out these questionnaires
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Timbuk2 has been a San Francisco original since 1989 and has reputation and a loyal following among real-life, hard-working bicycle messengers and cycling enthusiasts. In the case of “The Tao of Timbuk2” the company took some risk of losing its loyal customer base by moving its new productions to China. This paper will address the three questions for the case. 1. Consider the two categories of products that Timbuk2 makes and sells. For the custom messenger bag, what are the key competitive dimensions
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Expectation Maximization in Collaborative Filtering Jonathan Baker 2010 Abstract Expectation maximization (EM) is a method of approximating maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) in models with missing data or latent variables. A straightforward application of EM is collaborative filtering (CF): using data from multiple agents to predict unreported values. In this paper, we show a simple method of applying EM to a large CF problem: predicting ratings in the Netflix Prize dataset. 1 Auxiliary
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in the performance of duties; responds to training and coaching in a constructive manner. |Rating |Possible Behavioral examples | |Meets Expectation |Readily accepts and completes assigned responsibilities | | |Attempts to improve performance following constructive criticism
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referred to as topics. The R package topicmodels provides basic infrastructure for fitting topic models based on data structures from the text mining package tm. The package includes interfaces to two algorithms for fitting topic models: the variational expectation-maximization algorithm provided by David M. Blei and co-authors and an algorithm using Gibbs sampling by Xuan-Hieu Phan and co-authors. Keywords: Gibbs sampling, R, text analysis, topic model, variational EM. 1. Introduction In machine learning
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1. The Hurwicz criterion is a compromise between the maximax and maximin criteria. The Hurwicz criterion is the weighted sum of the maximax and maximin. So, the answer is true. 2. The minimin criterion is optimistic. The minimin criterion is NOT applied to the profit payoff table. It is applied to the cost table. In this situation we want to minimize cost as much as possible. So, if we can do it this is optimistic criterion. 3. A business owner is trying to decide whether to buy, rent
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voice of the customer allows organizations to improve the quality of their offerings to meet customers’ needs and achieve customer satisfaction (Evans & Lindsay, 2011). Whether shopping at a retail store, reading an online article, staying at a hotel, or eating out at a restaurant, customers are encouraged to complete surveys to provide feedback about a service or a product. Often surveys are presented using a similar format to Likert Scales that provide a range of values for the customer to provide
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requiring the involvement of management, workforce, suppliers, and customers, to meet or exceed customer expectations. Total Quality Management is formally defined as management philosophy and company practices that aim to harness the human and material resources of an organization in the most effective way to achieve the objectives of the organization. Total quality management can be summarized as a management system for a customer-focused organization that involves all employees in continual improvement
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