The growth of computational capabilities together with the emergence of vision techniques have opened new opportunities for the development of new approaches for video-surveillance systems (people detection, tracking and recognition...). The current work addresses the issue of visual real-time people tracking within a multi-camera network. We studied three different techniques for visual signat...

This article studies leadership from a systems intelligence perspective. Referring to Lincoln, Martin Luther King and a number of other exemplary leadership cases, we argue that the holistic, contextual and choice-intensive features of systems intelligence make it an illuminating frame of reference for understanding the actual practice of leaders. The key words in the article include “the need ...

The aim of this paper is to use historical insights from modern commerce as entry points to examine the macro-level phenomena associated with electronic commerce (EC). Commerce in its modern form first appeared in early 13 century Italy where conducive political conditions existed. Trade facilitated the exchange of goods, thereby enhancing the efficiency of processes between production and cons...

We show that the matrix-model action for noncommutative U(n) gauge theory actually describes SU(n) gauge theory coupled to gravity. This is elaborated in the 4-dimensional case. The SU(n) gauge fields as well as additional scalar fields couple to an effective metric Gab, which is determined by a dynamical Poisson structure. The emergent gravity is intimately related to noncommutativity, encodin...

Mobile games are based on the physical movement of players in a game world, combining real world with virtual dimensions. As the real world defies control, the magic circle, the border of the game world, becomes permeable for influences of everyday life. Neither the players nor the designers nor the researchers are able to foresee and fully control the consequences of players' actions in this w...

THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR in the production of road services has been extensively studied and has generated substantial theoretical and empirical work (Block 2006; Carnis 2006; Roth 2006). There is debate as to the modalities of privatisation (Block 2006; Carnis 2003; Hoppe 1991) and the functioning of a market system for the providing of road services (Carnis 2001; Roth 1996; Block 1979)....

Abstract:The present Russian political system is tied up with Putin's name; and Putin is consi-dered as a full-fledged political reality. Today's powerful Russia, which has got a new life after the Cold War and the weak collapse period, and has a major impact on global developments including the Middle East, is not understandable except under this title. What inspired writers to analyze P...

in order to study of effects of integrated biological and chemical  fertilizers on  fertilizer use efficiency, grain yield and related traits to  grain growth of barley (hordeum vulgaris l.), a factorial experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design with three replications in research farm of the faculty of agriculture sciences, university of mohaghegh ardabili in 2012. tre...

for some 3 million years, the archaeological record is characterized by stone tools undergoing incremental changes. then around 40,000 years ago, the monotony of lithics is terminated by a profusion of visual representations, generally considered to be the world’s first objets d’art. this collection include a series of portable objects, especially figurines and, later on, the famous cave painti...

this essay studies theory of lex mercatoria which is based on the assumption of existence of a third legal system along with the national and international legal systems regulating international commercial relations. for this purpose, the essay discusses the backgrounds of creation and emergence of the theory, its narrow and broad meaning, elements of which and the extent that it has been recog...