One of the recent strategies for increasing the customer’s loyalty in banking industry is the use of customers’ club system. In this system, customers receive scores on the basis of financial and club activities they are performing, and due to the achieved points, they get credits from the bank. In addition, by the advent of new technologies, fraud is growing in banking domain as well. Therefor...

The location-routing problem is the most significant and yet new research field in location problems that considers simultaneously vehicle routing problem features with original one for achieving high-quality integrated distribution systems in beside of the global optimum. Simultaneous pickup and delivery based on time windows are the two main characteristics of logistic management that have be...

This study introduces a green location, routing and inventory problem with customer satisfaction, backup distribution centers and risk of routes in the form of a non-linear mixed integer programming model. In this regard, time window is considered to increase the customer satisfaction of the model and transportation risks is taken into account for the reliability of the system. In addition, dif...

We study the impact on productivity of specific operating practices currently used by demand responsive transit (DRT) providers. We investigate the effect of using a zoning vs. a no-zoning strategy and time-window settings on performance measures such as total trip miles, deadhead miles and fleet size. It is difficult to establish closed form expressions to assess the impact on the performance ...

In this paper we study the impact on productivity of specific operating practices currently used by demand responsive transit (DRT) providers. We investigate the effect of using a zoning vs. a no-zoning strategy and time-window settings on performance measures such as total trip miles, deadhead miles and fleet size. It is difficult to establish closed form expressions to assess the impact on th...

thrombolysis for stroke is being used in some developing countries. this study was designed to evaluate the problems of thrombolysis therapy in iran. during january-july 2008, all patients with ischemic stroke admitted to ghaem hospital, mashhad, northeast iran, were enrolled in a prospective observational study. ghaem hospital is a tertiary care hospital that includes infrastructure for thromb...

An Acoustic Window is comprised of a horizontal sliding window at the inner layer, and side-hung window, which can be pushed to open, on one side outer fixed glazing other side. The serves as “baffle” for screening off noise passing through opened when it slid behind window. This baffle-type acoustic proved reduce up 8 dB(A) road traffic gaining popularity in residential developments Hong Kong,...

Introduction Prospective navigator-echo controlled scans are a widely used as an alternative to breath-hold acquisitions, generating respiratory motion free images with minimal patient co-operation. Such acquisitions require the setting of a navigator acceptance window (normally 5mm), usually about the end expiratory pause position, resulting in a scan efficiency during steady free-breathing of...

Data mining research into time series classification (TSC) has focussed on alternative distance measures for nearest neighbour classifiers. It is standard practice to use 1-NN with Euclidean or dynamic time warping (DTW) distance as a straw man for comparison. As part of a wider investigation into elastic distance measures for TSC [1], we perform a series of experiments to test whether this sta...