many e-commerce transactions via e-payment systems is carried out. the aim of this study is that the theory of structures, an empirical analysis about the importance and ranking key factors that may be on customer satisfaction in electronic payment systems affect the iranian banks.9 specific topics of the factors in e-payment systems, customer satisfaction and affect are more key, were selected...

We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes participating in international weightlifting competitions. Weightlifting competitions are multistage tournaments with the unique characteristic that the athletes must announce in advance the amount they intend to lift at each stage, thus allowing quantification of the riskiness of thei...

15. Supplementary Notes Supported by general revenues from the State of Texas 16. Abstract In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in applying statistical ranking criteria to identify sites on a road network, which potentially present high traffic crash risks or are overrepresented in certain type of crashes, for further engineering evaluation and safety improvement. This requires th...

We describe our participation in the subtopic mining and document ranking subtasks of the NTCIR-9 Intent task, for both Chinese and Japanese languages. In the subtopic mining subtask, we experiment with a novel data-driven approach for ranking reformulations of an ambiguous query. In the document ranking subtask, we deploy our state-ofthe-art xQuAD framework for search result diversification.