0262-8856/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2009.10.005 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 629702392; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M.T. Mahmood) Shape from focus (SFF) is one of the optical passive methods for three dimensional (3D) shape recovery of an object from its two dimensional (2D) images. The focus measure plays important role in SFF algorithms. Mo...

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This article advocates workplace adult education and training researchers and scholar practitioners interested in career and technical education (CTE), adult education and technology, and who are attempting social and cultural critiques of workplace e-learning. The emphasis on the technological and artefactual in workplace e-learning research and study are not producing the expected learning ou...

This article deals with the Value at Risk concept as it is used in practice. We show that, like the Gaussian distribution, elliptical distributions lend themselves to simple practical computations. All necessary computations are detailed for the symmetric hyperbolic distributions. A test on real stock market and exchange rate data shows the new distributions fit the data better and outperform e...

Özetçe. Günümüz şirketleri, müşterilerinin beklentilerini anlamak ve bu beklentilere hızlı ve doğru bir şekilde tepki vermek durumundadır. Artık, bilişim sistemleri karar destek sistemleri olmaktan çıkmış ve doğrudan yönetimin, üretimin, ticaretin ve sosyal hayatın yaşandığı sistemler haline gelmiştir. Hayatın kendisini beklemeye almak hayattan kopuş ile sonuçlanmaktadır. Uygulama yazılımları i...