Images of outdoor scenes often contain degradation due to haze, resulting in contrast reduction and color fading. For many reasons one may need to remove these effects. Unfortunately, haze removal is a difficult problem due the inherent ambiguity between the haze and the underlying scene. Furthermore, all images contain some noise due to sensor (measurement) error that can be amplified in the h...

Dark pools are equity trading systems that do not publicly display orders. Orders in dark pools are matched within the exchange bid-ask spread without a guarantee of execution. Informed traders are more likely to cluster on the heavy side of the market and therefore face a lower execution probability in the dark pool, relative to uninformed traders. Consequently, exchanges are more attractive t...

The thermodynamics of self-assembling systems are discussed in terms of the chemical interactions and the intermolecular forces between species. It is clear that there are both theoretical and practical limitations on the dimensions and the structural regularity of these systems. These considerations are made with reference to the microphase separation that occurs in block copolymer (BCP) syste...

Brian Batell, Maxim Pospelov, 3 and Brian Shuve Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2J 2W9, Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 ...

Using the field theoretical approach introduced by Cremades, Ibáñez and Marchesano for describing open strings attached to D9 branes having different magnetizations, we give a procedure for determining the Kähler metrics of those open strings in toroidal compactifications. Work partially supported by the European Community’s Human Potential Programme under contract MRTN-CT-2004-005104 “Constitu...

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Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe, it was necessary to introduce a new component of matter distribution called dark energy. The standard cosmological model considers isotropy of the pressure and assumes an equation of state p = ωρ, relating the pressure p and the energy density ρ. The interval of the parameter ω defines the kind of matter of the universe, related ...

Developing successful knowledge management (KM) processes is extremely difficult. In general, a large number of all KM projects end unsuccessfully. The aim of this paper is to summarize and study the attempts to take advantage of Lessons Learned in the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF), focusing on international missions. Relevant reports, articles and literature have been studied. With the purpose o...

In 1923, renowned architect Le Corbusier authored what is largely considered to be the bestselling architecture book of all time, Vers Une Architecture ("Towards a New Architecture"). Within the pages of his impassioned manifesto, he claimed that “A house is a machine for living.” Architecture, he claimed, is able to improve people’s lives. For Le Corbusier, Victorian cities were chaotic and da...