The production of speech is not only influenced by various intrinsic factors such as semantics, dialect, human perspective and emotion, but also by extrinsic factors such as environmental conditions and transmission channel. In certain acoustic conditions, the vocal effort of a speaker tends to be raised in order to overcome environmental hindrances such as a presence of noise or a long distanc...

This paper describes the characteristics of brand management in the context of the companies in Slovenia that are intensively engaged in the internationalization of their business operations. Using a sample of the 200 largest export companies in Slovenia, it explores the impact of internationalized business operations on the marketing mix component strategies to identify the most frequent inter...

Vision devices are today one of the most often used sensory elements in autonomous robots. Some of their hindrances are the difficulty in extracting useful information from the captured images and the small visual field of regular cameras. Visual attention systems and active vision may help to overcome them. This work proposes a dynamic visual memory to store the information gathered from a con...

During the last decades gender and diversity have become a business case in many respects. Therefore, organisations have to learn not only to consider gender and diversity issues as hindrances or problems but as opportunities to develop new competences. Organisational learning in this sense means to become aware of gender and diversity issues by questioning the daily “doing gender” and “doing d...

| Due to limitations in bandwidth or storage space, many applications require compression of digital images. One of the main hindrances to progress in the area of image communications is the large amount of information contained in an image. In this paper we propose a wavelet-based image compression technique which incorporates some of the properties of the human visual system (HVS). A new wave...

The Sony EyeToyTM is a webcam attachment for the Playstation2 (PS2) gaming console. The EyeToyTM places a user’s mirror image on a television screen while it detects their movements in order for them to manipulate objects and characters within a game. Although EyeToyTM is immediately popular due to the novelty of interaction, users often have trouble forming a mental model of how to manipulate ...

In order to make rational decisions for further PACS-implementations in Viennese community hospitals a (neutral) assessment of the SMZO**-project was launched by the Viennese community hospital financing body. The aim of the technology assessment was to gather the experiences of the day-to-day practice, organizational aspects and hindrances to develop the full potential of the PACS installation...

In the Nagel-Schreckenberg model of vehicular traffic on single-lane highways vehicles are modelled as particles which hop forward from one site to another on a one dimensional lattice and the inter-particle interactions mimic the manner in which the real vehicles influence each other’s motion. In this model the number of empty lattice sites in front of a particle is taken to be a measure of th...

The United States faces a double edged sword with the next generation of wireless data services. Consumers enjoy widespread competition from six major nationwide wireless operators, with a variety of standards offering a wide range of data and multimedia capabilities. The resulting competition in price and features has the potential to bring about better customer value and a faster pace of inno...

In the present scenario, numbers of vehicles are increasing day by day. People tend to apply brakes even in cases where it can be avoided. In highly congested roads, cases of drivers applying brake for every few metres of travel are no longer few and far between. With drivers competing for each and every inch of space available, accidents on the roads are also on the increase. Safety norms have...