To monitor their networks, road operators equip them with cameras. Degraded meteorological conditions alter the transport system operation by modifying the behavior of drivers and by reducing the operation range of the sensors. A vision-based traffic monitoring system is proposed to take fog and rain into account and react accordingly. A background modeling approach, based on a mixture of gauss...

I show a scheme which allows a perfect transfer of an unknown single-qubit atomic state from one atom to another by letting two atoms interact simultaneously with a cavity QED. During the interaction between atom and cavity, the cavity is only virtually excited and accordingly the scheme is insensitive to the cavity field states and cavity decay. Based on this scheme, a network for transfer of ...

To explain the determinants of negative behavior toward deviants (e.g., punishment), this article examines how people evaluate others on the basis of two types of standards: minimal and maximal. Minimal standards focus on an absolute cutoff point for appropriate behavior; accordingly, the evaluation of others varies dichotomously between acceptable or unacceptable. Maximal standards focus on th...

The resources necessary to produce Automatic Speech Recognition systems for a new language are considerable, and for many languages these resources are not available. This emphasizes the need for the development of generic techniques which overcome this data shortage. Indonesian is one language which suffers from this problem and whose population and importance suggest it could benefit from spe...

In the discipline of accounting, the resource-event-agent (REA) ontology is a well accepted conceptual accounting framework to analyze the economic phenomena within and across enterprises. Accordingly, it seems to be appropriate to use REA in the requirements elicitation to develop an information architecture of accounting and enterprise information systems. However, REA has received comparativ...

The forests in Sardasht area in the West Azarbaijan Province were quantitatively studied in this research. Based on Importance Value Index, in general, two types of forests have been identified: Quercus libani Oliv. in the northern, northeastern and northwestern aspects and Quercus brantii Lindl. in the southern, southeastern and southwestern and eastern aspects. The mean of vegetation crown pe...

The increasing complexity of engineering systems has sparked increasing interest in multdisciplinary optimization (MDO). This paper presents a survey of recent publications in the field of aerospace where interest in MDO has been particularly intense. The two main challenges of MDO are computational expense and organizational complexity. Accordingly the survey is focused on various ways differe...

Previous reports demonstrate that the α2-integrin (α2) mediates pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell interactions with collagens. We found that while well-differentiated cells use α2 exclusively to adhere and migrate on collagenI, poorly differentiated PDAC cells demonstrate reduced reliance on, or complete loss of, α2. Since well-differentiated PDAC lines exhibit reduced in vitro invas...

When two targets (T1 & T2) are presented in rapidsuccession, observers often fail to report T2 if they attendto T1. The bottleneck theory proposes that this attentionalblink (AB) is due to T1 occupying a slow processing stagewhen T2 is presented. Accordingly, if increasing T1difficulty increases T1 processing time, this should cause agreater AB. The attention capture...

The damages from DDoS attacks are increasing as DDoS attacks are taking various forms. This has resulted not only in decreased reliability of organizations and corporations but also in the threat of national security. Organizations and corporations are making significant efforts in developing a system through which they can appropriately correspond to DDoS attacks. However, the studies on objec...