" Lying in my tented, muddy waterbed, I read it by torchlight between half hourly telemetry readings. In fact I read it three times, very slowly, trying to make sense of it all…. But there it was, clearly laid out. The good of the species was irrelevant! It was competition between strategies to maximise genetic representation that mattered. " Thirty years since The Selfish Gene first appeared, ...

Chinese has been recognized as one of most major languages in the world, and it is evident that more and more people are interested in understanding or using Chinese. Thus, developing an efficient approach for learning Chinese characters is considered as an important issue. Certain previous studies have suggested various methods to learning Chinese characters for the purpose of showing students...

The fact that traditional food safety system in the absence of food safety culture is inadequate has recently become a cause of concern for food safety professionals and other stakeholders. Focusing on implementation of traditional food safety system i.e HACCP prerequisite program and HACCP without the presence of food safety culture in the food industry has led to the processing, marketing and...

Acquiring Chinese characters is a great challenge for foreign students, especially students from non-character culture background. What makes thing worse is that there are not efficient strategies in teaching Chinese characters. This essay tries to testify the efficiency of orthographic strategy by comparing it with the traditional teaching strategy on the basis of experimental studies with Bri...

We take the idea of Level of Detail (LOD) from its traditional use in computer graphics and apply it to the behavior of virtual characters. We describe how our approach handles LOD determination and how we used it to reduce the simulation quality of multiple aspects of the characters’ behavior in an existing application.

Policy makers within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) complement the role of meat and poultry plant managers in food recalls. The increasing frequency and scale of recalls raise questions whether sufficient attention is placed on these events. Three measures of recall effectiveness are introduced to evaluate this public-private crisis management process. Managerial and technical variable...

Here in this article, there is an attempt to pay attention to the importance of people characters (traditional and civil) in the improvement of urban management due to the sustainable urban development. The deduction of this article in that people characters can play an important role in the process of developing and improving the operation of urban management by paving the way far participatio...

We’ve been developing a Chinese OCR engine for machine printed documents. Currently, our OCR engine can support a vocabulary of 6921 characters which include 6707 simplified Chinese characters in GB2312-80, 12 frequently used GBK Chinese characters, 62 alphanumeric characters, 140 punctuation marks and symbols. The supported font styles include Song, Fang Song, Kai, He, Yuan, LiShu, WeiBei, Xin...