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Ravinder, Handanhal; Misra, Ram B. – American Journal of Business Education, 2014
ABC analysis is a well-established categorization technique based on the Pareto Principle for determining which items should get priority in the management of a company's inventory. In discussing this topic, today's operations management and supply chain textbooks focus on dollar volume as the sole criterion for performing the categorization. The…
Descriptors: Facility Inventory, Evaluation Methods, Classification, Administration
Tsuji, Keita; Arai, Shunsuke; Suga, Reina; Ikeuchi, Atsushi; Yoshikane, Fuyuki – Online Submission, 2013
In Japan, only a few public libraries provide e-mail reference services. To help public libraries start e-mail reference services, the authors investigated reference questions received by libraries via e-mail and traditional face-to-face services. The authors found that research questions are more frequently observed among e-mail questions and…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Reference Services, Electronic Mail
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Wilkins, Chuck; Rolfhus, Eric; Hartman, Jenifer; Brasiel, Sarah; Brite, Jessica; Howland, Noelle – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (NJ1), 2012
Many students graduate from high school unprepared for the rigorous reading required in entry-level college and career work. This brief builds on a recent report (Wilkins et al. 2010) that used the Lexile measure (a method for measuring the reading difficulty of prose text and the reading capability of individuals) to estimate the proportion of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Public Education, College English
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Milligan, Glenn W. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1989
Simulated test data (N=864 artificial data sets) with four different error conditions were used to study the recovery characteristics of the beta-flexible clustering method. Conditions under which the beta-flexible method provides good recovery are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Simulation
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Zyphur, Michael J. – American Psychologist, 2006
Although a variety of studies have indicated that using statistical clustering techniques to examine genetic information may allow for geographically based groupings of individuals that tenuously map onto some conceptions of race, these studies have also indicated that the amount of genetic variation within these groupings is significantly larger…
Descriptors: Race, Genetics, Statistical Analysis, Racial Identification
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Layne, Sara Shatford – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Discusses intellectual issues involved in the indexing of visual images, postulating that the indexing of images should provide access to images based on the attributes of those images and provide access to useful groupings of images. Four categories of image attributes are described, and issues to be considered in creating groups are discussed.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Cluster Grouping, Indexing
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Vickery, Brian – Journal of Documentation, 1997
Introduces new procedures being used to extract knowledge from databases and discusses rationales for developing knowledge discovery methods. Methods are described for such techniques as classification, clustering, and the detection of deviations from pre-established norms. Examines potential uses of knowledge discovery in the information field.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Databases, Electronic Text