Librarians and archivists seeking guidance on digitization projects will find this book helpful, although they may find it challenging to navigate. A detailed table of contents provides a roadmap for the book, but the curious lack of an index makes it especially difficult to consult the book on a specific topic. If a librarian or archivist has a question concerning the digitization of an image ...

Many handheld devices have been developed in the mobile industry. Most mobile devices in the market are carried Android operating system. Android also supports many other hardware components that increase mobile devices functionality. The operating system can be used for multimedia, touch screen, number of types of sensors and 2D/3D graphics. Due to open source license, many manufactures integr...

Parallel programming is about performance, for otherwise you’d write a sequential program. For those interested in learning or teaching the topic, a problem is where to find truly parallel hardware that can be dedicated to the task, for it is difficult to see interesting speedups if its shared or only modestly parallel. One answer is graphical processing units (GPUs), which can have hundreds of...

This paper considers the EBONI (Electronic Books ON-screen Interface) Project’s research into the importance of the user when designing electronic textbooks [1]. The results of the Visual Book (Landoni, 1997) and the WEB Book (Wilson, 1999) experiments, which explored design aspects of ebooks and provide a backdrop to EBONI’s research, are presented. EBONI’s methodology and evaluations, involvi...

Abstrac-t.We have developed a model that reconciles information-sharing and producerscrounger models of group foraging. Our model includes producers, scroungers, and an opportunistic forager that can both produce and scrounge but with reduced efficiency. We show that these three strategies can coexist only in the unlikely case that the opportunist's loss in searching ability is exactly equal to...

When post-harvest marketing strategies are restricted by disallowing speculative purchases, sales out of storage becomes an irreversible decision and the dynamic marketing problem becomes analogous to the optimal exercise of a nancial option. The optimal marketing strategy is to hold at low prices and to sell at high prices with a cutoo price function marking the boundary between low and high p...