This paper presents a method of compressing still images combining the powerful features of support vector machine (SVM) for machine learning with discrete wavelet transform (DWT) in image transformation. DWT, based on the ‘haar’ wavelet, has been used to transform the image and the coefficients acquired from DWT are then trained with SVM using Gaussian kernel. SVM has the property that it sele...

Aims The COVID-19 pandemic had an adverse toll on undergraduate medical education, resulting in less access to work experience opportunities for aspiring students, a vital component of the application process. With some studies reporting over 75% being cancelled due restrictions, King's College London Psychiatry Society offered unique chance sixth-form students day life student, providing authe...

Why do states want to acquire nuclear weapons? In other words, what drives nuclear-aspiring states? This is the basic question that author seeks address in this research. To so, research will focus on two standout cases: Iran and North Korea. By employing structural realism as a tool of analysis, argues it structure international system both Korea weapons their own. Specifically, highly unequal...

Many youth in Global South countries, whose parents have migrated abroad while they stayed, i.e., “stayer youth,” also aspire to migrate. While the current literature depicts stayer as “waiting” emigrate, connoting passivity, recent critical studies suggest importance of centring young people’s agency when focusing on their aspirations and experiences. This article investigates how Ghana “pace”...

In this paper from the Xiangshang Forum 2006 we propose the Wisdom project, an international network initiative on developing the next generation of management and entrepreneurial systems based on knowledge and wisdom rather than data and information. This is a major challenge especially for China which must aspire to become wise and ethical rather than just efficient or effective. Major topics...

Music collections are commonly represented as plain textual lists of artist, title, album etc. for each contained music track. The large volume of personal music libraries makes them difficult to browse and access for users. In respect to possible information visualization techniques, no established convenient user interfaces exist. By using a spherical self-organizing map algorithm on low leve...