Understanding the consumer buying decision process means that businesses understand the stages customers go through to be able to come to a final decision whether to buy a product or not. This means that businesses should focus on creating products and services that meet the specific needs of each stage of the buying process, as any one stage can affect how likely a customer will remain/return as a customer. Customer Psychology is the study of how people make decisions, the reasons they buy and why they buy what they do. By understanding the psychology behind your customer, you can help your business develop more effective sales strategies and marketing campaigns, as well as build a deeper understanding of their journey within your business.
Read more ...Artificial intelligence is an exciting technological frontier for the coral reef remote sensing community, especially the emergence of machine learning algorithms for mapping and detecting features from aerial images of coral reef environments. Machine learning algorithms are finding uses in environmental remote sensing applications that are principally founded on three technological advances: The spatial resolution of remote sensing images has increased incrementally since Earth Observation images were first collected in the late 1960s. Greater detail and smaller features are now visible in coral reef environments. Notably, the widespread use of drone platforms for collecting images at low altitudes above coral reefs has made individual corals visible. What this means is that AI algorithms can detect changes to the health of an ecosystem or determine if an area is being damaged; on the other hand, these algorithms can also help identify areas that are overgrown by coral colonies with ease. The “big data revolution,” refers to the phenomenon of increased capture of earth observation images, which has delivered the information on which artificial intelligence relies to recognize environmental patterns and trends. Global repositories are now continuously updated to provide real-time satellite images, often freely downloadable, for observing coral reefs. A wealth of image-based information is now available for training and evaluating algorithms to interpret coral reefs from above Credit for the first use of a computer for numerical calculation in radiology goes to Dr. Edwin H. Northrop of the Mayo Clinic, who in 1951 showed that computed tomography (CT) scans could detect lung cancer at the early stages of the disease. Since then, this technique has become essential to diagnosis, enabling many people with a variety of cancers to have surgery tailored specifically to their cases.
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