Image quality assessment has a great importance in several image processingapplications. Recently, various objective image quality metrics have been proposed in order topredict the human visual perception. In this paper, novel image quality metrics, S-SSIM(saliency-based structural similarity index) and S-VIF (saliency-based visual informationfidelity), are proposed based on fre...

This study was conducted in 2016 with the aim of studying the mediating role of quality services in the relationship between state marketing and customer satisfaction. The population of this study includes all staff and customers of Melli Bank of Shiraz; that among these, 150 people were selected by simple random sampling method. Reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and composite relia...

this study aims to investigate the effect of information technology on quality performance. the research model has been proposed based on relationships among research variables and previous studies on information technology. population was all of department’s managers and personnel of marketing and sale, manufacturing and quality control in iran khodro and saipa companies. to collect data, a fi...

abstract soil quality is an essential concept for maximum agriculture production without environmental destruction. studying soil physical quality indicators, that express soil structural stability and soil air-water balance in root zone, is one of the most important aspects of soil quality. so determination of optimal range for pore volume distribution is important and this research carried ou...

1 Richard L. Upchurch, CIS Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747, [email protected] 2 Ann E. Kelley Sobel, Computer Science and Systems Analysis Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, [email protected] Abstract—Evolving accreditation standards require that software engineering programs, and perhaps even individual courses, demonstrate that studen...