FinTech play a pivotal role in facilitating access to financial products and services. At the moment, the country characteristics that facilitate the use of FinTech are not adequately identified in the literature. This paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of which country characteristics facilitate the use of FinTech and how FinTech can drive sustainable economic development. Based...

This paper suggests how a MNC subsidiary’s knowledge outflow can influence its performance. We distinguish between direct costs and opportunity costs. Direct costs are contingent on knowledge types and the lack of appropriate communication channels. Opportunity costs are due to resource-use for knowledge outflows that could have been utilized for the subsidiary’s own business and development ac...

We report experimental results with bearings-only and range-only Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). In the former case, we give the initial results from a new method that extends optimal shape-from-motion to incorporate angular rate and linear acceleration data. In the latter case, we have formulated a version of the SLAM problem that presumes a moving sensor able to measure only ran...

A large nurober of investigations have been undertaken to develop technical systems in order to enable a tactile substitution of speech for the deaf. These aids have been evaluated with various experimental procedures (identification and discrimination tests, learning experiments, tracking procedures and other overt behaviour methods). In order to find additional evidence for the processing and...

Inspired by ant navigation, we explore a method for sky segmentation using ultraviolet (UV) light. A standard camera is adapted to allow collection of outdoor images containing light in the visible range, in UV only and in green only. Automatic segmentation of the sky region using UV only is significantly more accurate and far more consistent than visible wavelengths over a wide range of locati...

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The kin term product calculations used by culture-bearers to compute kin relationships from kin terms without reference to genealogy are the basis for the structure of a kinship terminology and its underlying generative logic. The details of that logic account for differences in the structural forms for kinship terminologies. The structural form of the Polynesian kinship terminologies, like tha...

We propose a simultaneous equation system with GARCHX errors to model the contemporaneous relations among Asian and American stock markets. We thus evaluate the correlation matrix over rolling windows and introduce a correlation matrix distance which allows a simple graphical analysis of contagion. The empirical analysis on Asian and American stock markets shows some evidences of contagion.

According to Halliday (1967), there is a ban on simultaneous resultative and depictive modification in English. It is here observed that such a ban is not general, but instead restricted to certain examples of modification with abnormal theta relations, which are commonly found in the resultative construction. Otherwise, simultaneous resultative/depictive modification is possible. An account of...

The main focus of this paper is to present a case study of a SLAM solution for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) operating in real-world industrial environments. The studied solution, called Gold-fish SLAM, was implemented to provide localization estimates in dynamic industrial environments, where there are static landmarks that are only rarely perceived by the AGVs. The main idea of Gold-fish S...