the license plate edge detection is the most important step of the process of plate identification. plate recognition system is an automated system that captures vehicle location, vehicle license plate accurately on various vehicles at different times of day and night sets. in this paper the issue of searching the exact location of the license plate from the input images using sobel operator fo...

The story of Little Red Riding Hood is not just one of a little girl bringing simple biscuits and wine to a sick grandmother. Rather, the tale chronicles a young girl's trip into adulthood, the woods functioning as the hazy middle ground between being an innocent child and a knowing adult. Bruno Bettelheim, in The Uses of Enchantment, examines the story of Red Riding Hood's trip as culminating ...

Holmström [1982] showed that free-riding is inevitable in partnerships where inputs are substitutes. Legros & Matthews [1993] and Vislie [1994] showed that when inputs are strict complements (Leontief technology), free-riding can be avoided with a linear sharing rule. This paper considers the robustness and some extensions of the positive result of LMV. First, I show that LMV’s result is not ro...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to compare the effects of horseback riding exercise and trunk stability exercise on static and dynamic balance in normal adults. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-two normal adults residing in communities were randomly divided into a horseback riding exercise group and a trunk stability exercise group, and they conducted exercise for eight weeks. [Results] Sway t...

The passage of Public Law 94-142, to alleviate the educational isolation of handicapped children, has resulted in some integration of handicapped children into community activities. Unfortunately, this integration is usually characterized by groups of handicapped people enjoying an activity together rather than with nonhandicapped persons. Developing activities that can realistically effect int...

Abstract— The popularity of P2P network paradigm due to the inadequacy of the traditional client-server model to handle increasing exchange of resources amongst millions of users worldwide comes with lots of challenges. One of these challenges is the problem of free riding. Free riding has been identified as a threat to the existence of P2P networks, as it degrades utilization and network perfo...

PURPOSE Pediatric all-terrain vehicle (ATV) injuries have been increasing annually for more than a decade. The objective of this study was to describe the riding behaviors, helmet use, and crash history of young ATV riders. METHODS A 38 question self-administered survey was distributed to a convenience sample of children at 4 agricultural fairs during 2007. A total of 228 surveys were reviewe...

A systematic review of the literature on horseback riding therapy as an intervention for children with cerebral palsy (CP) was carried out. The terms horse, riding, hippotherapy, horseback riding therapy, equine movement therapy, and cerebral palsy were searched in electronic databases and hand searched. Retrieved articles were rated for methodological quality using PEDro scoring to assess the ...

You probably know how to ride a bicycle, but would you even recognize the equations of bicycle motion? The equations are clearly not necessary for riding a bike, but are they sufficient? Suppose, that upon seeing your first bicycle, you had derived the equations of motion from scratch, starting with F=ma. Would you shout “Eureka” then jump on and start riding? No, the equations of motion are ir...

In the team literature there is much discussion about free-riding as a main obstacle for teams to achieve quality performance. Given its importance to team success, however, empirical study of the free-rider problem has lagged behind the conceptual work. So far, little research has been conducted in field settings to measure the scale of free-riding and investigate how the problem may deteriora...