Two decades of research in video and image quality assessment has led to the design of subjective assessment protocols and objective metrics. In order to get good performances, most of research works have restricted their focus of interest on SD format or below and on distortion stemming from coding artifacts or transmission error. Considering up-coming services such as HDTV or scalable video c...

Previous experiments based on a masked-priming paradigm revealed robust morphological priming effects induced by two derivational morphemes in Hebrew: the root and the verbal pattern. However, considering the special characteristics of the masked-priming paradigm, the possible contributions of phonological and/or semantic factors to these morphological effects could not be firmly assessed. In t...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are very costly and difficult to be implemented. Organizations need to be ready for implementing them. They require assessing their current readiness and then, they can perform a range of activities to improve their readiness. The ERP readiness is influenced by many factors which are interrelated and any improvement in one of them has direct and indire...

Electric vehicles are an important part of governments’ environmental policies, and therefore understanding the factors affecting their market share is very important. So, this research designed to investigate electric vehicle adoption, considering effects COVID-19 pandemic sustainable development level. Effective have been investigated in three categories. One characteristics vehicles; other i...

With the regular development of global epidemic, port shipping supply is tight. The problem congestion, soaring freight rates, and hard-to-find container space has emerged. This paper proposes a new joint berth-quay crane allocation model, namely E-B&QC, by taking minimum time in ship, cost extra transportation distance for collector trucks land area port, waiting ships. Then, deficiencies spar...