This paper identifies which information about tourists serves as the best predictor of their pro-environmental behavior at home and on vacation. If a small set of predictors can be identified, the tourism industry would be able to use them to focus attention on attracting tourists with smaller environmental footprints. Results from a survey asking respondents about pro-environmental behavior in...

This paper presents a vehicle detection method which can divide overlap vehicles. The proposed method detects vehicles by finding vertical planes above a road plane. At first, two horizontal line segments adjacent vertically are detected in the present frame. Then, corresponding line segments are searched in the previous frame by a correlation matching. If the motion of these horizontal line se...

Automatic detection and description of cultural features, such as buildings, from aerial images is becoming increasingly important for a number of applications. This task also offers an excellent domain for studying the general problems of scene segmentation, 3-D inference and shape description under highly challenging conditions. We describe a system that detects and constructs 3-D models for ...

This paper describes about a method of state observation of clothes. The method assumes to be applied as a visual function of daily assistive robots tidying up clothes in daily environment. A set of gabor filters are applied to an input image by changing its frequency and direction. Combination and selection of these parameters provide adequate information to know where wrinkles or cloth-overla...

A measurement is presented of the diffractive proton structure function describing the process ep → eXY , where X and Y represent the hadronic final states into which the exchanged virtual photon and the proton dissociate respectively. The data, with an integrated luminosity of 3.74 pb−1, were collected with unbiased triggers using the H1 detector at the HERA positron proton collider in 1999. T...

This paper introduces a new way of representing bankruptcy rules. These representations are used to show that the minimal overlap rule is a composition of the Ibn Ezra rule and the constrained equal losses rule, a result originally obtained by [1]. The residual minimal overlap rule is analysed as an alternative extension of the Ibn Ezra rule, by using a composition with the constrained equal aw...

Overlapping domain decomposition is a technique for solving complex problems described by Partial Differential Equations in a parallel framework. The performance of this approach strongly depends on the size and the position of the overlap since on the one hand more overlap increases the computational costs for the single subdomain but on the other hand it accelerates the iterative procedure of...

We extend the interference in the phase-space algorithm of Wheeler and Schleich [W.P. Schleich and J.A. Wheeler, Nature 326, 574 (1987)] to the case of a compact, spherical topology in order to discuss the large j limits of the angular momentum marginal probability distributions. These distributions are given in terms of the standard rotation matrices. It is shown that the asymptotic distributi...