The technology based self service banking (TBSSB) refers to automated banking services that customer avail in self service mode using various electronic banking channels, without any interaction with bank employees. Researchers have used numerous methods to evaluate automated banking service quality. In this paper, a methodology to quantify the overall effect of key TBSSB service quality attrib...

This research investigated the learning of event categories, in particular, categories of simple animated events, each involving a causal interaction between 2 characters. Four experiments examined whether correlations among attributes of events are easier to learn when they form part of a rich correlational structure than when they are independent of other correlations. Event attributes (e.g.,...

This paper uses a novel experimental approach to measure consumer willingness to pay for wine attributes in a hedonic framework. The research design allows us to deal with identification issues resulting from the interaction of demand and supply and to examine the effect of supply-side influences in price data. We employ information from observed wine choices and individual fixed effects to acc...

OBJECTIVE To compare awareness about concept of social wellness in male and female first year medical students. METHODS It was a cross sectional, questionnaire based study conducted from February till December 2010. Responses on aspects of social wellness were rated never, sometimes, mostly and always from lowest to highest (1-4); evaluated as frequency, proportion and percentages by PASW (Pr...

In a series of studies, it is demonstrated that different types of self-affirmation procedures produce different effects. Affirming personally important values (value affirmation) increases self-clarity but not self-esteem. Affirming positive qualities of the self (attribute affirmation) increases self-esteem but not self-clarity (Study 1). As a consequence, attribute affirmation (which increas...

This paper elaborates on ontology-based end-user visual query formulation, particularly for users who otherwise cannot/do not desire to use formal textual query languages to retrieve data due to the lack of technical knowledge and skills. Then, it provides a set of quality attributes and features, primarily elicited via a series of industrial enduser workshops and user studies carried out in th...

In view of the problem that it is difficult to quantitatively assess interactivity between attributes in identification process 2-order additive fuzzy measure, this work uses intuitionistic sets (IFSs) describe and deal with attributes. Firstly, defined by supermodular game theory. On basis, experts employ number (IFN) attributes, Secondly, opinions all are aggregated using weighted average ope...

Scene classification is an important issue in computer vision area. However, it is still a challenging problem due to the variability, ambiguity, and scale change that exist commonly in images. In this paper, we propose a novel hypergraph-based modeling that considers the higher-order relationship of semantic attributes in a scene and apply it to scene classification. By searching subnetworks o...

This article analyzes whether neighborhood context or environment in Seattle influences dimensions of social ties among neighbors, independent of the individual attributes of residents such as home ownership and socio-economic status. Three dimensions of neighbor ties are examined: interaction, organizing collectively, and knowing about neighbors. A number of environmental attributes are consid...