The ever growing popularity and availability of multimedia information has rendered automatic image-language association essential in a number of multimedia integration applications. Bridging the gap between the two media requires an appropriate feature-set for describing their common reference; one that will be both distinctive of the entities referred too and feasible to extract automatically...

The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned b...

Much of the previous work in developing analytical models for high performance composite materials has focused on representations of the heterogeneous medium as a homogenous, anisotropic continuum. The development of the equivalent properties of the homogenous medium from the geometry of the microstructure and the fiber and matrix properties has been come to be known as “micromechanics” (Daniel...

The cochlea is an organ of the hearing system, whose basic function is to map sounds of different frequencies onto corresponding characteristic positions along the basilar membrane (BM). Sound-induced BM vibration is transformed into deflection of stereocilia on the hair cells, which then encodes the sound as neural signals for perception. Most cochlear models used to describe the BM vibration ...