We introduce a new approach to the detection and the classification of effects in video sequences. We deal with the effects such as cuts, fades, dissolves, and camera motions. A global motion compensation based on block matching and a measure of block mean intensities are used to detect all the effects. We determine the dominant motion vectors to detect the camera motions for each shot and obse...

Despite the popularity of financial compensation as a means for addressing trust violations, the question whether (more) money can indeed buy trust back remains largely unexplored. In the present research, we focus on the role of violation type and compensation size. The results of a scenario study and a laboratory experiment show that financial compensation can effectively promote the restorat...

PURPOSE Whether either natural emmetropization or compensation for imposed spectacle lenses requires the visual system to distinguish myopic from hyperopic blur is controversial. Some have argued that the visual system need only respond to the magnitude of the blur. This study was undertaken to test whether adding large amounts of astigmatic image blur would cause myopia and interfere with comp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of mechanical patient lifts in reducing musculoskeletal symptoms, injuries, lost workday injuries, and workers' compensation costs in workers at a community hospital. DESIGN Pre-post intervention study. SETTING Three nursing units of a small community hospital. Patients or SUBJECTS Nursing personnel. INTERVENTIONS Mechanical patient lifts were mad...

among the studies related to power systems are the contingency analysis for judging the system security and short circuit study for relay coordination. due to continuous and repeated performation of these studies for different system configurations, the solution algorithms but also on applied numerical techniques. compensation and partial matrix refactorization are two methods that are often us...

The topic of thesis is “Compensation of Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD)” in Fiber optics communication and its impact on high speed data transmission. The work can be divided into three parts which deals with major aspects of PMD: characteristics, transmission and compensation. Polarization-mode dispersion (PMD), in single-mode optical fibers, is a phenomenon that a limit the bit-rate-distan...

Ecological compensation is a principle according to which negative impacts on biodiversity should be compensated for. Biodiversity offsetting (BO) the requirement compensate quantified losses by gains considered equivalent. Compensation policies reducing ecological BO overlook fact that notion of has both analytical and normative aspects. To substantiate this idea, we analyze French case, one m...