This paper presents results on the effectiveness of different human capital policies targeted to disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands. The policies considered are: class size reduction, extra resources for personnel, extra resources for computers, lowering the compulsory school attendance age and increasing the compulsory school leaving age. All results are based on some quasi-experimental r...

One of the most significant parts integrating computer technologies into intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is vehicle license plate recognition (VLPR). In cases, however, to recognize a successfully, location be determined first. Vehicle License Plate Recognition are used by law enforcement agencies, traffic management control and various government non-government agencies. VLPR in comme...

Readings: Compulsory protocols H̄atzis, Pentaris, Spirakis, Tampakas, Tan. Fundamental control algorithms in mobile networks. Chatzigiannakis, Nikoletseas, Spirakis. On the average and worse-case efficiency of some new distributed communication and control algorithms for ad hoc networks. Chatzigiannakis, Nikoletseas, Spirakis. An efficient communication strategy for ad-hoc mobile networks. Chatz...

Dear Editor, thank you for the careful revision of our manuscript: " A family–based educational approach to obesity: a three-year study " , to be considered for publication as a Research article in " BMC Pediatrics ". We changed the text according to the reviewers' suggestions. We also provided a letter with a point-by-point answer to the reviewers' comments. We made the required changes to the...

Many license identification tools have been proposed to support OSS reuse. License automatically identify licenses declared in source files. Ninka is one of the most accurate tools. Because are often newly created or inherited, rules built into need be and updated on a regular basis. However, when large number unknown detected products, it not easy manually create new rules. In our previous stu...