Today, higher education institutions (HEIs) are realizing the significance of customer-oriented philosophies and quality management systems to help manage their operations on educational services. This paper starts with a review of some previous models and then outlines the results of a study...

Traditional methods of applying classification models into the area of credit scoring may ignore the effect from censoring. Survival analysis has been introduced with its ability to deal with censored data. The mixture cure model, one important branch of survival models, is also applied in the...

Based on the physical phenomena of optical effects produced by the partial discharge (PD) and on the characteristics of fluorescent fiber sensing of weak fluorescent signals, a PD measurement system using a fluorescent fiber sensor was designed. The main parameters of the sensing system were...