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... “What is most interesting is that 106 Where Have All the Criminals Gone? we learned not to be afraid from our children,” he said. “Most were aged thirteen to twenty.” A few days after the massacre ... criminal translates into 7 fewer homi- cides that the criminal might have committed. Now do the math. In 1991, there were 14 executions in the United States; in 2001, there were 66. According to Ehrlich’s ... their lives without the pressing fear of crime, there arose a nat- ural question: just where did all those criminals go? At one level, the answer seemed puzzling. After all, if none of the criminologists,

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... the order is good for the day only (day order) or good until you cancel the order (good-till-canceled order, or GTC). If you select good-till-canceled, you can go about your business WHERE TO BUY ... the current stock price. (If your order does get filled, however, there’s nothing to stop the stock from going even lower.) Stop-Loss Order: Protecting You from Financial Disaster As the name implies, ... only do you lose some or all of your original investment (which is painful enough), but you’ll still owe all the money that you borrowed. In the stock market, stocks go down faster than they go

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... WHERE THERE’S SMOKE HOLLYWOOD &TOBACCO: REALITY CHECK STRIKES AGAIN! ACTION GUIDE WHERE THERE’S SMOKE HOLLYWOOD MOVIES HAVE NOW BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL RECRUITER OF NEW ... the top Going global Key messages Fact sheet TOOLS Sample letters Where to write them Powerful web links Research reports and where to get more Page references sources for key facts CREDITS 3 4 9 12 14 17 21 24 26 28 30 33 37 40 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 56 59 60 61 62 64 76 78 83 86 2 HOLLYWOOD ... Strikes Again!, we? ??ll be making our presence felt big time exactly where people... movies will be grassroots audience and consumer pressure REALITY CHECK STRIKES AGAIN! where it counts

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... color histogram difference between successive frames. They calculate shot similarity as ShtSim i,j = W c ∗ShtClrSim i,j + W a ∗ShtActSim i,j (3) where W c and W a are color and activity weights, respectively; ... color similarity and the time between the two shots. Candidates for scene segmentation appear where this recall is at a local minimum. Sundaram and Chang extend this concept of coherence, coupling it with ... Structure-related indexes 18 1070-986X/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE Published by the IEEE Computer Society Where Does Computational Media Aesthetics Fit? Brett Adams Curtin University of Technology, Australia Survey use

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... non-U.S. citizens, 20% are from India; 20% from Europe; 19% from Asia (excluding mainland China and India); 16% from Canada; 8% from South America; 7% from Mainland China; 4% from Central America ... Central America or Mexico; 3% other; 2% from Africa; 1% from Australia/New Zealand. Age: The largest group of students is between 26 and 29 years old (54%), followed by 30 to 31 years old (17%). ... values will sometimes conict with what they are asked to do in business. n As to where they expect to encounter those conicts, “downsizing” and “investing in less-developed countries” top

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... Where Do I Go From Here? Civilian Transition InCharge Debt Solutions Copyright © 2012 InCharge Debt Solutions Published ... leadership skills. We are able to know what drives people to do things, I think, in a weird way because of the War in Afghanistan where we have worked to ‘win the hearts and minds of others’ psychologically ... one that allowed him to build components that fit inside of nuclear power plants. “You can imagine, after all the issues in Japan with the reactors, that there is plenty of need to do things better,”

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 03:20

... RL33897 Where Do Older Americans Live? Geographic Distribution of the Older Population March 5, 2007 Kirsten J. Colello Analyst in Gerontology Domestic Social Policy Division Where Do Older ... oldest-old were in the Midwest, specifically... based on data from the U.S Census Bureau Growth of the oldest-old population between 2000 and 2005 has largely occurred in the West (29%) ... and older were concentrated in the Midwest and the South, with six in Florida None were in the Northeast In these counties almost one-third or more of county residents were age 65 and

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... publication was renewed. 3 I studied and worked and learned my trade I had the life of an earthman made; But I met a spaceman and got way-laid— I went where I wasn't going! The Spaceman's ... We& apos;ve got eighteen hundred pounds of milling equipment going down Number Two shaft to the machine shop, and we can't get it mounted in less than twenty minutes. Repeat, hold the countdown." "The ... you need?" "On my mark, make it T minus thirty minutes. That ought to do it. O.K., here we go. " There was a brief pause, then Bessie's voice came formally over the all-stations

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... WHERE IS THE Wealth of NATIONS? WHERE IS THE Wealth of NATIONS? THE WORLD BANK Washington, D.C. Measuring Capital for ... notions of wealth and welfare underpin the basic calculation of total wealth in this book It follows that if total wealth is related to social welfare, then changes in wealth should ... their policy domain Where Is the Wealth of Nations?. .. measures of wealth are suitably comprehensive This is the prime motivation for expanding the measure of wealth to

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... unique challenge, asynchronous power behavior, where the effect on a component’s power state due to a program entity lasts beyond the end of that program entity We present the design, implementation ... optimization and debugging: where is the energy spent inside an app? In answering this question, we need to (1) break an app into energy accounting entities, (2) track the power draw and energy activities ... each draining a different amount of power Each component has its own base state which is the power state where that particular component consumes zero power (irrespective of other components)

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... WHERE ARE GOING? @jw * Josh Wiiams We The Preface In the BEGINNING Where did we come om? What follows is a brief history of our bizarre journey from a web + UI boutique ... future web proclaimed by blogs, investors and so-called “social media gurus.” We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams.” Wiiam Wonka FADS vs THE FUTURE Where are we ... are we going? The Fads • Checking In • Game Mechanics • Badges • Geo-blah-blah-blah Checking out • Checking In is the status update for the places we go It has succeeded where other...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 09:38

... back There is the publisher's imprint again Where is it? Are there any other graphics on the back? Where? Where is the book summary and author bio? Where is the price located? What are the font ... income on my taxes About $15,500 came from Amazon (US), about $40 came from Amazon (UK), about $2800 from Smashwords, $160 from paperback sales, and $45 from my old books with vanity presses ... get to where I’m at Periodically set up good deals to reward faithful fans and encourage potential ones to check you out You know that Facebook Author Page and first draft blog idea? Well, here' s

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... opposite side of the power shaft gear from the wheel as illustrated. The governing equation for minimal slippage is [Holland, 1983] where A = number of teeth on the power shaft gear B = number ... Drive The odometry solution for most multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) configurations is done in similar fashion to that for differential drive, with position and velocity data derived from the motor ... of their inherent simplicity. For odometry instrumentation in the form of a steering-angle encoder, the dead-reckoning solution is equivalent to that of an Ackerman-steered vehicle, where the steerable

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... attractive from the standpoint of high reliability, long life, quick start-up, and light weight. The principle advantage of the RFOG, however, is that it requires significantly less fiber (from 10 ... geomagnetic sensors difficult for indoor applications. However, it may be possible to overcome this problem in the future by fusing data from geomagnetic compasses with data from other sensors. 2.4.1 Mechanical ... arising from the “dipping” action observed in compass needles attributed to the vertical component of the geomagnetic field. The dip effect varies with latitude, from no impact at the equator where

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... visible and VDOP>10, switches to 2-D navigation. If HDOP>10, suspends 2-D navigation PDOP < (HDOP + 5 ) 22½ PDOP > (HDOP + 10 ) 22½ Rockwell NavCore V If 4 satellites visible and GDOP>13, ... Receiver 2-D/3-D DOP criterion PDOP equivalent Magellan If 4 satellites visible and VDOP >7, will switch to 2-D navigation. Enters 3-D navigation when VDOP<5. PDOP > (HDOP + 7 ) 22½ Magnavox ... the system used for dynamic testing where power was supplied from a 12-Volt battery. For the static testing, AC power was available with an extension cord. Therefore, the computer supply was connected

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... discharging from a known set point at a constant rate. An analog-to-digital conversion is performed on the sampled capacitor voltage at the precise instant a return signal is detected, whereupon ... was developed by SEO for automating the selective application of pesticides to orange trees, where the goal was to enable individual spray nozzles only when a tree was detected within their associated ... as well as digital (RS-232) output can easily be made available for other applications. The system is housed in a rugged aluminum enclosure with a total weight of only 2.2 kilograms (5 lb). Power

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... (4.10) f(t) = f + at (4.7) 0 where a = constant t = elapsed time. This signal is reflected from a tar- get and arrives at the receiver at time t + T. 2d T = — (4.8) c where T = round-trip propagation ... HAPTER 5 O DOMETRY AND O THER D EAD -R ECKONING M ETHODS Odometry is the most widely used navigation method for mobile robot positioning. It is well known that odometry provides good short-term ... Non-Systematic Odometry Errors Odometry is based on simple equations (see Chapt. 1) that are easily implemented and that utilize data from inexpensive incremental wheel encoders. However, odometry is

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... We omit here the derivation of expressions for " and $, which can be found from simple geometric relations in Figure 5.9 (see [Borenstein and Feng, 1995a] for a detailed derivation). Here ... deviation of the position estimation errors from the mean value is smaller in the case where the gyro data was used (note that a large average deviation from the mean value indicates larger non-systematic ... course occur together. The problem is therefore how to distinguish between Type A and Type B errors and how to compute correction factors for these errors from the measured final position errors

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... licensed from Houghton Mifflin Company. Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved). In this book we don't address these methods in detail, because they do not allow ... (Adapted with permission from Russell [1995].) controlled flows of air to draw odor- laden air over a sensor crystal. The quartz crystal is used as a sensitive balance to weigh odor molecules. The ... description of the environment from perceptual data. This has the intuitive advantage of having a reasonably well-defined relation to the real world. However, there is, as yet, no truly satisfactory

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... constant depth (RCDs) [Kuc and Siegel, 1987] that were extracted from 15 sonar scans recorded from each of the locations marked “×.” The model from Kuc and Siegel's work suggests that RCDs ... map may provide good estimates for the relationships between the observed features. However, because of errors in the estimates for the robot's position, local stereo maps don't necessarily ... graph-matching problem where the objective is to find a set of features in the relational map such that the relationships between these features match the relationships between the features on

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21