identification based on faces is still a useful method for many applications and face recognition developing is an active research field. in this paper, a novel face identification method is proposed. the proposed method (bridle path on gabor phase (bpgp)) is based on extracting texture patterns from phases of the gabor wavelet. also, in order to describe the textures, a novel texture descripto...

This paper concerns with a mathematical model considering customer satisfaction requirements in a supply chain. The model tradeoffs the supply chain ability to fulfill the customers’ requirements and the limited budget in a variety of production phases. The decisions made here help to determine the profit provider price and economic quantity while the effective supplier and priori requireme...

In this paper, practical activities of Needfinding an intertwined approach to identifying needs and to visualizing idea concepts in early design are described and discussed. This is done primarily to gain an increased understanding of the various representations of user needs that are fed into the fuzzy front-end activities of team-based product innovation projects. The empirical basis comes fr...

Introduction: Dental maturation is a useful indicator of growth. Moreover, skeletal maturation is assessed by the cervical vertebrae maturation (CVM) stages, using lateral cephalometric radiographs. This study aimed to investigate the association between Demirjian’s method and CVM stages and also to analyze the diagnostic performance of the dental maturation stages for identification of ...

This paper integrates competitive pricing and network design problems for the short life cycle products. The pricing problem determines selling prices of the products for different life cycle phases in a competitive market, as well as acquisition management of returned products. Besides, the selling and acquisition prices are related to the distance between distribution centers and customers. T...

In this day and age, customers are regarded as an article of trade. With the growth of Service Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) advanced and became popular in India. CRM became crucial to cope up with exceeding competitive global market. (CRM) in a bank bring about important phases such as incorporating the communication tools to meet the needs of customers, referring each cust...

current study has investigated the effects of perceived social responsibility on brand reputation, brand identification and purchase intention. this applied research falls into the category of descriptive / survey ones. all golestan brand customers in shiraz city are considered as statistical population. among the population, using non-probability sampling method, 384 individuals selected. vali...