This article recalls the business process discussion between Carr, who stated that IT does not matter, and Smith and Finger, who proclaimed the opposite. In the end, both visions agreed that IT (or process deployment) counts, but must follow the business strategy (or process modeling). The present study broadens the discussion towards business process maturity, which is a more recent perspectiv...

This paper presents a multiple people counting using only single camera, entering or exiting in a region of interest. Sigma-Delta background modeling and subtraction is used to segment the people from region. Background subtraction provides blobs as a result with connected component. CG of blobs was used to track and count the entry and exit of people. This paper also proposed method for counti...

BACKGROUND In the Indian context, a household's caste characteristics are most relevant for identifying its poverty and vulnerability status. Inadequate provision of public health care, the near-absence of health insurance and increasing dependence on the private health sector have impoverished the poor and the marginalised, especially the scheduled tribe population. This study examines caste-b...

In the era of multi and many-core processors, computer simulations increasingly require parallel, small and fast pseudorandom number generation. Although linear generators lend themselves to a simpler evaluation that ensures favorable properties like guaranteed period, they may adversely affect the result of simulations or be quite large. Conversely, nonlinear generators may provide apparently ...

It is challenging to count and analyze people in crowds due to the changes of lighting, occlusions, shadows, backgrounds, and weather conditions. Especially for the occlusion problem, until now, it is still ill-posed. To deal with the occlusion problem, the MCMC (Monte Carlo Markova Chain) scheme is used in this paper to estimate all possible pedestrian positions across different frames. Howeve...

Leprosy persists in many Pacific countries, but attitudes and knowledge of leprosy among Pacific communities have not been well investigated. The lack of disease knowledge and stigma are major barriers to implementing case-finding strategies and prophylaxis programmes designed to eradicate leprosy. A survey of Pacific Island adults aged 18 years and older, and living in Christchurch, New Zealan...

The frequent formation of large igneous provinces during the opening of the Atlantic Ocean is a surface manifestation of the thermal and chemical state of convecting mantle beneath the supercontinent Pangea. Recent geochemical and geophysical findings from the North Atlantic igneous province all point to the significant role of incomplete mantle mixing in igneous petrogenesis. On the basis of a...

The ability to count people from video is a challenging problem. The scientific challenge arises from the fact that although the task is relatively well-defined, the imaging scenario is not well constrained. The background scene can be uncontrolled along with the illumination being complex and varying. Additionally, the spatial and temporal image resolution is usually poor. The context of most ...

There is a longstanding debate about the status of the principle Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents (SDA), according to which a counterfactual with a syntactically disjunctive antecedent [(φ ∨ψ) > χ] entails a conjunction of counterfactuals [(φ > ψ)∧(ψ > χ)]. This principle is highly intuitive for most examples that have been considered, but it has also been claimed to be subject to empi...