By stitching together adjacent images from a video sequence surveying a scene, a video mosaic of the entire panorama can be formed. Since a video survey consists of a sequence of images having small relative displacements with respect to each other, there is redundant overlapping information in consecutive images so that not all consecutive video images are required to create a mosaic, and only...

considering the contemporary business settings, managers’ role is more than essential to the viability and further development of an organization. managers should possess such skills in order to effectively cope with the competition. multiple attributes decision making (madm) is an approach employed to solve problems involving selection from among a finite number of alternatives. the aim of thi...

Advanced analytics offers new means by which to increase efficiency. However, real-world applications of advanced in manufacturing are scarce. One reason is that the management task selecting technologies (AATs) for application areas not well understood. In practice, choosing AATs difficult because a myriad potential techniques (e.g. diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive) suitable different ...

Models of nucleotide substitution are commonly used in the analysis of DNA sequences. In this unit a protocol is described for the use of the program MODELTEST (coupled with PAUP*) to find the best-fit model of substitution for the sequence alignment at hand. An example data file is analyzed and the interpretation of the results is discussed. Some background theory on model selection and a disc...

The objective of this paper is to present a methodology for selecting decision making units (DMUs) in the presence of undesirable outputs and imprecise data. The proposed model is applied in supplier selection problem. A numerical example demonstrates the application of the proposed method.

This paper proposes a new method for selecting appropriate buyer-supplier relationships (BSR) for specific projects. Because it is almost impossible in reality to establish mathematical relationships between the BSR attributes and the factors of a project, the concept of relationship indices (RI) is introduced to quantify such BS relationships which are in turn established through design of exp...

Rapid growth of intensive animal industries in southeast Queensland, Australia, has led to large volumes of animal waste production, which possess serious environmental problems in the Murray Darling Basin (MDB). This study presents a method of selecting sites for the safe application of animal waste as fertiliser to agricultural land. A site suitability map for the Westbrook subcatchment withi...

The aim of this paper is to study the popular models used for the simulation of major elements of a water quality system. The present study compares results of the CE-QUAL-W2 model with the WASP5 and MIKE11 models to assess the water quality of Pasikhan River. The contaminant loadings of Nitrate and Phosphate are utilized in the CE-QUAL-W2, WASP5 and MIKE11 simulations. This study is the first ...