Throughout much of its existence, Nevada’s gambling industry has been dominated by table games. Historically, slot machines were of secondary importance because they did not generate much revenue and were costly to maintain and operate. Starting in the late 1970s, a series of technological milestones improved the form and function of slot machines, and fueled replacement cycles on casino floors...

The key issues of Information Technology (IT) managers of Brazilian banking, a highly advanced industry, were assessed. The resulting priorities are comparable to those found in developed countries. As well as the usual key issues method of rating, two other methods were used: Q-sort and interpretive structured modeling (ISM). Respondents Q-sorted issues, and a factor analysis on these data ide...

BACKGROUND The shape diversity of 16.4 million biologically relevant molecules from the PubChem Compound database and their 1.46 billion diverse conformers was explored as a function of molecular volume. RESULTS The diversity of shape space was investigated by determining the shape similarity threshold to achieve a maximum on the count of reference shapes per unit of conformer volume. The rat...

project participants are becoming more aware of the high costs and risks associated with delay claims and their litigation. among delays, weather delay has an important role in projects performed in severe environmental conditions. this research is the extension of delay analysis techniques by approving analysis of weather delays using fuzzy logic. at the presented technique, first using a fuzz...

The web is important for academic communication and publishing on an international scale, but it is difficult to assess the extent to which globalization actually has occurred. This article examines the connectivity structure of links between university websites in 25 Asian and European countries as a case study of an inter-regional and intra-regional web phenomenon. The five most linked-to uni...

Two new focus measure operators for Shape From Focus to estimate the three-dimensional shape of a surface are proposed in this paper. The images are formed by a camera using moving apertures. The well-focused image pixels are identified by frequency analysis or matching with the all-focused image of the scene. Frequency analysis involves the usage of classical focus measure operators and summin...