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... get the footage to the networks for the nightly news.9 Furthermore these televised images and the outrage of segments of the American public directly impacted the Kennedy White House Donovan and ... entertainment outside the home Many of the southern theaters, which formed the TOBA, closed their doors The rise of the American economy caused by the start of World War II, as well as the continued ... Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness examines television shows of the 1980s and 1990s and provides another helpful framework for understanding television texts Gray avoids the positive/negative...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:07

... with the standard economic framework On the other hand, they are consistent with a monthly struggle for self- control The decline can be rationalized as the outcome of a self- control problem, in the ... Finally, the shape of the spending profile over the pay period, and the motivation behind it, are important subjects for study in their own right Our results add to the debate on whether the industry ... 0.96 and naiveté implies β = 0.97 In summary, we find that the quasi-hyperbolic model can explain the decline for a β between 0.87 and 0.97 and reasonable values for the other parameters The values...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... documents are processed in their descriptive, textual, and image content, the MetaMedia multimedia database platform is used to account for both metadata and content, and a browsing and searching interface ... to the authors They would also like to express their gratitude to the contributors, for making this issue a hopefully important source of information within the existing body of knowledge in the ... the field of image and video processing for cultural heritage Finally, they would like to acknowledge the assistance of the editorial support team of the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 18:20

... prototype for the blind in the Virtual Acoustic Space Project They have developed a device which captures the form and the volume of the space in front of the blind person’s head and sends this information, ... under the influence of the heat, this toner swells and therefore gives a raised image Such static raised images are routinely used in many places; often however these images are prepared by hand and ... types of information are at the end of the process combined together to form the mental image Two strategies are applied when performing the exploration of a physical object using the hand, based...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... methodology for transforming images into a simplified form suitable for tactile rendering, based on a series of image segmentation steps guided by contextual information In “Transforming 3D coloured ... Early Reduction The articles in the vision disability category start with a review on Image and video processing for visually handicapped people” by T Pun et al In this review, the importance ... impaired people find their way by camera phone,” J Coughlan and R Manduchi propose a new way of finding aid based on a camera cell phone that searches for particular color targets; they introduce a...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... information theory results, considering that they play a key role in image and video compression * In this book, the terms image and video data compression, image and video compression, and image ... discrimination, or in other words the HVS notices the object from the background If, on the other hand, the two gray levels are the same, the HVS cannot identify the existence of the object What we ... ratios for certain kinds of images, and very simple decoding procedures Due to some limitations, however, they have not been adopted by the still image coding standards On the other hand, the facial...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2016, 21:04

... integrity, and availability; and you may experience attacks against these dimensions We can think of these as the “primary colors” of information assurance By mixing and matching these and we mix and ... somebody finds out about them Unfortunately, the “somebody” is usually a bad guy The bad guys always seem to find out about vulnerabilities long before the good guys 1-7 Relating Risk, Threat and ... decrypt the passwords Then, with a stolen password, the attacker can execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

... (UNDP and others) What is needed, now and later? International support, cooperation and coordination Current international support to Viet Nam on CC • Support to the mitigation of effects of CC and ... • In-depth consultation with key stakeholders and the wider public • Refine the CCA strategy • Adopt CC impact scenarios as the basis for public and private investments • Mainstream reduction ... strategies and plans for 2011 and beyond; in public investment decisions; and policy instruments such as SEA • Articulate VN policies, strategies and plans on vulnerability reduction in the context...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... four fundamental forces One of these is the gravitational force The other three are the electromagnetic force, the weak force, and the strong Force Force particle Mass force Strong Gluon Electromagnetic ... between the two presidents and that therefore, without further ado, the light it emitted traveled the same distance to reach each of them Since the speed of the emitted light to the left and to the ... is for the president of Backwardland, and since the speed of light toward each is the same, the light will reach the president of Forwardland first This is why the citizens of Forwardland claim...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 16:20

... market interest rates and accommodating the demand for outside money Changes in these interest rates alter the opportunity costs of money holdings and thereby affect the demand for broad money however, ... to alleviate the funding risks faced by the banks It should therefore facilitate the provision of money and credit to the economy.22 Understanding the funding models of banks and the interlinkages ... borrower and on the value of collateral that the bank receives For instance, a positive shock to the value of the collateral that is pledged to banks implies a lower risk for the bank and thus the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... uphold their borders if these are threatened either from the outside or from the inside On the other hand, the right of self- determination was, in the aftermath of World War I and during the period ... any rules and principles on the basis of which the formation and recognition of some entities, and the ignoring and non-recognition of others, can be explained? In the light of the aforementioned ... attributes and legal criteria for statehood § 2.3 Sovereignty § Recognition of States and the acquisition of international personality §3.1 The constitutive theory § 3.2 The declaratory theory § The theories...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... costs and the expenses of the social and health services are increasing The report analyses the factors influencing the use of social and health services by the elderly On the basis of the analysis, ... receiving some help, the sources of the help was asked The list covered both informal and formal care-givers and respondents were asked to list all of them and name one who helps the most The structure ... in five tables The first table reports the probabilities for not using the service and the rest of the tables give the probabilities for using the services with certain intensity The EVERGREEN...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... WHA55.25) The Regional Office will publish the research papers later this year This publication outlines the extent of the problem, the implications for the health sector and other sectors, and the ... National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Rudolf Hoogenveen National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Alan A Jackson ... of the countries it serves The European Region embraces some 880 million people living in an area stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the south and from the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... the soft body, mucus and the organic shell matrix Fractionated GAGs from both mucus and the whole snail body (see above for methodology) were applied to a mm The GAG component of the soft body, ... incubated at 60 °C for 24 h The suspension was centrifuged at 3000 g for 20 at room temperature and the supernatant, which contained the GAGs, was We performed a simple method for the metabolic labeling ... in the snail body by alcian blue staining and showed that it is mainly secreted into the outer surface of the body as a mucous material from internal granules [11] The mucus secreted on the body...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... sky near sunset As they walk, the grandfather tells tales of the Old Ones, the elders of the community, and of their wisdom As the boy absorbs the stories and begins to make their wisdom his own, ... groaning woods, the crying grass, and the moaning rocks They are also in the woman's breast, the wailing child, the home, and the crowd The last line tells us, "The dead have a pact with the living." ... begins to see them In the print, the Elders are barely visible as shadowy images suspended within the bright colors of the sky They are watching over the land and its inhabitants Although their lips...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... exception, however, they didn't accept the circumstances and conditions that had been set before them They understood it was impossible for them to live the way they used to; in order for them to lead ... themselves from the attacks Homosexuals had no one to speak up for them at that time and were unsure of what to Instead they isolated themselves and bottled up the anger and fear they felt for society ... fighting fiercer and with more pride and confidence than before Gays and lesbians began joining forces and recognized their common cause; to stand up for their rights as human beings and not willing...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:59

... emphasized both the spiritual need of the individual freely to construct the self (an idea at the root of Schelling’s idealism) and the destiny of that self in an ancient and fabled fatherland (the mythical ... with the declaration that a bullet for him would also pierce the law His older brother, Karl (1824–1897), would follow grandfather and father into the legal profession The family moved in the ... devices, for others by the divine hand During the fi rst half of the century, the evidence accumulated: the fossil evidence, the biogeographical evidence, the anatomical evidence, the embryological...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:20

... in the Solar System The road was open before us, ours for the taking And then the will faded For the next 30 years, the trail-blazing was taken up by others, as Americans chose to less risky and ... during their lifetimes, the tide of change inexorably rolls forward, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse The story of the first space stations and the men and women who built and flew them ... self- centeredness In the early 1970s, the United States had the tools, the abilities, the vision, the freedom, and the will to go to the stars We had already explored the moon Our rockets were the most powerful...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:55

... biology and, therefore, no good evidence for the existence of God According to Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and other New Atheists, the lack of evidence for design has made the idea ... into the earth, geophysicists would time the resulting echoes as they traveled back to the surface and then use the information from these signals to reconstruct a picture of the subsurface of the ... evidence: the information the digital code—stored in DNA and the other large biological molecules The case I make for intelligent design is less well known than Professor Behe’s and, therefore, to...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 09:00

... between the ends they seek and the means they use to realize them The idea that the end justifies the means has always rested on casuistry It only begs the question of what justifies the end, and to ... a high price for their liberation from the Taliban Aside from the thousands killed and the tens of thousands injured in the initial bombing campaign, the economy has collapsed to the point where ... shambles; and the exodus of the middle class Iraq has become the most dangerous place on earth—not merely for the soldiers of the occupying power but also for the citizens forced to endure the descent...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44