Most existing sketch understanding systems require a closed domain to achieve recognition. This paper describes an incremental learning technique for opendomain recognition. Our system builds generalizations for categories of objects based upon previous sketches of those objects and uses those generalizations to classify new sketches. We represent sketches qualitatively because we believe quali...

We are trying to solve the problem of learning to recognize objects in an open-domain sketching environment. Our system builds generalizations of objects based upon previous sketches of those objects and uses those generalizations to classify new sketches. We represent sketches qualitatively because we believe qualitative information provides a level of description that abstracts away details t...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between human resource management and entrepreneurship in the view of owner-managers and employees, and among employees with in the SME in Thailand. The research method used qualitative method to confirm the phenomenology interest with top management position which women are regarding their career path by using purposive sampling method. The resu...

SMEs are one of the main contributors to job creation and GDP. To ensure sustainability their business meet market needs, owner-managers these days, switch functioning from traditional latest technological frameworks. However, even after adoption, local still not fully able exploit reap benefits information communication technologies (ICTs). understand this issue, research focuses on two object...

Providing experienced and skilled people at all levels in the printing business are essential elements to building a model that can help performance towards global standards. The industry issue is always related print quality productivity, moreover as priority achieving customer satisfaction. issues of productivity relevant be addressed determine survival commercial printers. This study explore...

Swertia mussotii Franch. (SM) (Gentianaceae) was a traditional Tibetan folk herb for hepatitis in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau areas. For understanding the hepatoprotection and toxicity characteristics of Swertia mussotii Franch., the whole plant of Swertia mussotii was extracted by water (SME-b) and 75% ethanol (SME-a); then, SME-a was dissolved with water, the supernatant was SME-c, and the sedi...

This paper presents the findings of a study of SME owner-managers that examined their willingness to share information online with other members of a local business network. The main variables associated with willingness to share knowledge online were found to be willingness to share information in conventional modes and the intensity with which they used the internet for business activities. A...

This paper examines directors’ pay for a sample of 629 UK SMEs from 1991 to 1995. Approximately half of the sample were closely-held (i.e., owner-managed) firms, which allowed empirical testing of a number of hypotheses regarding the relationships between directors pay and the separation of ownership from control. As with previous research findings relating to large firms, non-closely-held SME ...

Purpose: This paper describes the perceived effects of implementing lean production in a Swedish SME contract manufacturer. Especially focused are the effects on, and possible tradeoffs between, cost-efficiency and flexibility. Design/methodology/approach: SME suppliers need basic capabilities of qualitative production performance as stepping-stones to develop more system supplier capabilities ...

Canine and feline preventative healthcare consultations can be more complex than other consultation types, but they are typically not allocated additional time in the United Kingdom (UK). Impacts of the perceived length of UK preventative healthcare consultations have not previously been described. The aim of this novel study was to provide the first qualitative description of owner and veterin...