Kenya is a widely cited case for proponents of fintech development. This article shows how Kenya’s boom replicates patterns uneven development inherited from the colonial era. In particular, use unevenly distributed between urban and rural areas, heavily concentrated on Nairobi Mombasa in particular. The seeks to explain these by situating them relation spatiality political economy settler-colo...

composition and structure of a three-storied fagus orientalis-dominated forest was investigated in the caspian forests, north of iran. circular sampling plots of 1000 m2 occupied by advance growth and natural regeneration were randomly chosen where the initial cuttings (with shelterwood aim) were performed. abundance of species at different growth stages and quality of seedlings and saplings we...

INTRODUCTION Oak-dominated forests of the Central and Eastern United States have generally not been regarded as suited to uneven-aged silviculture (Roach and Gingrich 1968, Sander and Clark 1971). In fact, several attempts to apply the selection method of reproduction cutting in oak-dominated stands have resulted in compositional shifts toward more shade tolerant species (Trimble 1970). Given t...

This paper extends the concepts of the distributed linear hashed main memory file system with the objective of supporting higher level parallel dambase operations. The basic distributed linear hashing technique provides a high speed hash based dynamic file system on a NUMA atchitecture multi-processor system. Distributed linear hashing has been extended to include the ability to perform high sp...

Recent research has focused on the design of intelligent prosthetic ankle devices with the goal of adapting the behavior of the device to accommodate all walking surfaces that an individual encounters in daily life. One surface that is particularly difficult for persons with transtibial amputation (TTA) is uneven ground. Patients with TTA have an increased frequency of falling on uneven ground ...

The influence of ground irregularities on the behavior of a wheeled mobile robot (WMR) navigating on uneven surfaces is addressed. The paper studies the vibratory movements induced on the body of the WMR, in order to analyze its ability for carrying out on-board tasks, and on the accuracy of the data collected by its external sensorial systems. The adhesion capability of the wheels of the WMR o...

Old documents frequently appear with digitalization errors, uneven background, bleed-through effect etc... Motivated by the challenge to improve printed and handwritten text, we developed a new approach based on morphological color operators using HSI color space. Our approach is composed of a morphological background estimation for foreground/background separation and text segmentation, a back...