Miettinen, Oskari Challenges for Growth in Small Finnish Software Firms: A Multiple-Case Study/ Oskari Miettinen Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2009. 88 p. Based on a literature review and an empirical research, a growth challenge model for small Finnish software frms is introduced. The literature review covers such topics as research on growth of a frm, reasons, and ways to grow, and vari...

The New World genus Eucalantica Busck, 1904 is reviewed. It comprises seven species, six of which are described as new: Eucalantica costaricae Sohn & Nishida, sp. n., Eucalantica ehecatlella Sohn & Nishida, sp. n., Eucalantica icarusella Sohn & Nishida, sp. n., Eucalantica powelli Sohn, sp. n., and Eucalantica pumila Sohn, sp. n., all five from Costa Rica; Eucalantica vaquero Sohn, sp. n. from ...

" Liveness detection " , a technique used to determine the vitality of a submitted biometric, has been implemented in fingerprint scanners in recent years. The goal for the LivDet 2011 competition is to compare software-based fingerprint liveness detection methodologies (Part 1), as well as fingerprint systems which incorporate liveness detection capabilities (Part 2), using a standardized test...

Reusing a code fragment by copying and pasting with or without minor modifications is a technique frequently used by programmers, and thus software systems often have duplicate fragments of code in them. Such duplicated fragments are called code clones or simply clones. Although cloning is beneficial in some cases and often programmers intentionally use it, it can be detrimental to software mai...

Long-term wildlife monitoring involves collecting time series data, often using the same observers over multiple years. Aging-related changes to these observers may be an important, under-recognized source of error that can bias management decisions. In this study, we used data from two large, independent bird surveys, the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario ("OBBA") and the North American B...

This pape r i s a d d r e s s e d t o the v iew o f Schank and B i r n baum (1981) t h a t s y n t a x has no " p r i v i l e g e d ' p o s i t i o n i n p a r s i n g . E v i d e n t l y what i s meant i s ( a ) t h a t s y n t a c t i c p a r s i n g has no logical or temporal priority over semantic processing, and (b)that syntax has been as@igned attention far out of proportion to its intere...

Over the last few years the efficiency of search equilibria has been examined by a number of authors. In a series of papers, Diamond (1981; 1982a; 1982b; 1984) has studied this issue in depth. Diamond (1981) shows that in a market with a distribution of match specific mobility costs, an unemployment insurance programme can improve the ex ante welfare of all workers by inducing each of them to f...

The acanthocephalan Echinorhynchus bothniensis Zdzitowiecki and Valtonen, 1987 differs from most other species in the genus Echinorhynchus Zoega in Müller, 1776 by infecting mysids (order Mysida) instead of amphipods (order Amphipoda) as intermediate hosts. Here we report on the occurrence of E. bothniensis in mysids (Mysis segerstralei Audzijonytė et Väinölä) and in its fish definitive hosts i...

Graham J Etherington should be included in the author byline. He should be listed as the sixth author and his contribution is: Genome sequencing and SNPs identification in the mutant plant. His affiliations are 1: The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United, Kingdom, and 2: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom. The correct citation is: ...