This paper describes the design of the SQUASH system, the SFU Question Answering Summary Handler, developed by members of the Natural Language Lab from the SFU School of Computing Science in order to participate in the 2006 Document Understanding Conference (DUC-2006) summarization task. The SQUASH system for DUC-2006 built upon the SQUASH system that was built for the last year’s DUC-2005 comp...

in recent years,internet-based banking services have become the focus of competition in iran’s banking system. in this respect, internet banking users’ identification and segmentation leads to better understanding of users’ needs and expectations and planning to meet them. this in turn will result in improving the image of the bank and obtaining competitive advantage. in this research, seven ba...

purpose: this study investigated the relationship between organizational factors and job burnout using descriptive-analytical method (correlational) at bank melli iran in the city of mahabad. materials and methods: fifty employees occupied in this organization were participated in the present study, using random selection method. questionnaire was means of collecting data. the studied variables...

By definition, brand strategy is a long-term plan for the development of a successful brand in order to achieve specific goals. A well-defined and executed brand strategy affects all aspects of a business and is directly connected to consumer needs, emotions, and competitive environments. The main purpose of the current study is to investigate brand and product congruity and its effect on brand...

The purpose of all service institutions, including banks is to provide appropriate services for the customers' satisfaction. In fact, the key to the success of these organizations relates to the customer-orientation and focus on the quality of services. Since the organizations providing financial service, especially banks operate in an environment with indistinct products, their quality service...

In this paper we introduce and study a new-calculus with explicit substitution, xgc, which has two distinguishing features: rst, it retains the use of traditional variable names, specifying terms modulo renaming; this simpliies the reduction system. Second, it includes reduction rules for explicit garbage collection; this simpliies several proofs. We show that xgc is a conservative extension wh...

For banks and financial institutions, credit risk had been an essential factor that needed to be managed well. Credit risk was the possibility that a borrower of counter party would fail to meet its obligations in accordance with agreed terms. Credit risk; therefore arise from the bank’s dealings with or lending to corporate, individuals, and other banks or financial institutions.  Credit risk...