Inevitably, there is a tension between the provision of services in a market society and the management of crime risks in both public and private sectors. As central media of exchange in global networks, credit, debit and charge cards can never avoid the risk of crime entirely: the primary goals of corporations are profit maximisation rather than maximum crime reduction. There will always be so...

Didier Guillevic Ching Y. Suen CENPARMI, Suite GM-606 Concordia University Montr eal, QC, H3G 1M8 Contact: [email protected] Abstract We describe a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based word recognition engine currently being developed to be integrated with the CENPARMI Bank Cheque Processing System. The various modules are described in detail, and preliminary results are compared with our...

Nesta pesquisa, investigamos a participação do povo indígena Arara Rio Branco no licenciamento ambiental da rodovia BR-174, ocorrido estado Mato Grosso. A das comunidades indígenas é exigida pela legislação brasileira, masnem sempre devidamente concretizada. investigação foi realizada com pesquisa documental e base na experiência profissional dos autores. Partimos conceitos de doxa, territorial...

El trabajo analiza las sentencias recaídas en un caso que la concesionaria para comercialización de automóviles una conocida marca, con cual mantenía contrato cuenta corriente mercantil, giró dos cheques pagar el saldo adeudado, más tarde fueron protestados por caducidad. La demandante ejerció acción cobro pesos, sin calificar si ejercía cambiaria del cheque o correspondiente al corriente. come...

Migração celular é um ingrediente importante no desenvolvimento de seres multicelulares e em processos como resposta imunológica ou metástases câncer. Apresentamos uma revisão sobre modelagem migração célula isolada substratos planos. Reanálise dados experimentais mostraram comportamento que se desvia do modelo canônico, o Langevin para partícula com movimento Browniano. A proposição semiempíri...

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Cursive handwriting recognition is a challenging task for many real world applications such as document authentication, form processing, postal address recognition, reading machines for the blind, bank cheque recognition and interpretation of historical documents. Therefore, in the last few decades the researchers have put enormous effort to develop various techniques for handwriting segmentati...

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I am writing this just nine months after the Royal Bank of Scotland went bust and Gordon Brown wrote out a cheque for £37 billion to bail out the UK financial sector. That’s enough money to keep our MPs in dubious expenses for nigh on 40,000 years. And yet a new survey by Nottingham Business School shows that people still trust the banks more than the NHS – far more. As the Nottingham report (1...