Abstract The Zagros Mountains represent a strategic geographic region near the junction of Africa, Europe, and Asia, valleys within mountain range likely correspond to migration corridors used by archaic modern humans. Ghar-e Boof, key archeological site in southern Zagros, is located at an altitude 905 m.a.s.l. Dasht-e Rostam Fars Province, Iran. On basis lithic artifacts radiocarbon luminesce...

The process of IT projects evaluation often seems to cease just as quantifiable results start to become available – in Operational Use evaluation (OUe). This paper investigates OUe of IT projects and it’s contrast it with the evaluation undertaken during the specification, construction, and testing of IT projects. We decided to call such technique Prior Operational Use evaluation (POUe) to dist...

Video completion is a computer vision technique to recover the missing values in video sequences by filling the unknown regions with the known information. In recent research, tensor completion, a generalization of matrix completion for higher order data, emerges as a new solution to estimate the missing information in video with the assumption that the video frames are homogenous and correlate...

Paid crowdsourcing platforms such as Upwork and Amazon Mechanical Turk must jointly serve workers, requesters, and platform owners. However, design and governance decisions tend to be made only by the owners, and in the business interests of the requesters, so the many stakeholders’ issues often remain unaddressed. In response to the resulting frustration and power imbalances, platform users cr...

Video mosaicing is commonly used to increase the visual eld of view by pasting together many video frames. Existing mosaicing methods are eeective only in very limited cases where the image motion is almost a uniform translation or the camera performs a pure pan. Forward camera motion or camera zoom are very problematic for traditional mosaicing. A mosaicing methodology to allow image mosaicing...

Websites play a pivotal role in contributing to the brand identity of an organization and an even greater role in stimulating the brand-consumer relationship. This manuscript proposes a framework for measuring the Brand Contribution Index (BCI) for a website. The authors commence the study by identifying eight significant website dimensions viz. Relative Importance(RIi), Popularity(Pi), Search ...

Araştırmacılar tarafından genellikle Ortaçağ’daki Alanlar (Alanorsi) ile aynileştirilen Aslar ve Aorsi/Arsiler, atlı-savaşçı bozkır kültürünün ün yapmış boyları arasında tarih sahnesindeki yerlerini almışlardır. Kökenleri hakkındaki tartışmalar her zaman olduğu gibi subjektif Batı-merkezci (bu “tesirli” akıma bir çok Rus hatta yakın dönem Çinli araştırmacıları da dahildir) anlayışla İndo-İrani ...

The previous literature mainly assumes that the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and their payment-forms are unpredictable prior to the first bid announcement day. Using a sample of 125 completed acquisitions between U.S. public firms from 2003 to 2006, I find that a bid offer is anticipated on average 187 trading days before the announcement day in 86% of deals. The market also anticipates the ...

Given a gapped Hamiltonian of a spin chain, we give a polynomial-time algorithm for finding the degenerate ground space projector. The output is an orthonormal set of matrix product states that approximate the true ground space projector up to an inverse polynomial error in any Schatten norm, with a runtime exponential in the degeneracy. Our algorithm is an extension of the recent algorithm of ...