“A lot has been achieved in video segmentation and indexing, but we still have a long way to go.” Video segmentation has been the subject of study for several decades; while, video indexing has mostly been active in the past ten years. Each of these areas has its own motivation and applications, but the fact remains that the success of video indexing depends a great deal on good quality video s...

We distinguish between three types of outliers in a one-way random e ects model. These are formally described in terms of their position relative to the main part of the observations. We propose simple rules for identifying such outliers and give an example which involves median-based statistics.

This study assessed goal-setting and task performance among Nigerian managers. Data were collected from 521 subjects including 176 Yoruba, 147 Igbo and 198 Hausa/Fulani managerial employees in Lagos, Nigeria. The relevant scales of the 57-item questionnaire designed by Mendonca and Kanungo (1994) were used to obtain measures of the dependent variables. Mean scores in goal setting and performanc...

Recent e-Government literature has highlighted Government 2.0 (Gov 2.0) as a vehicle for greater citizen engagement. Despite previous high expectations, citizens’ involvement in Gov 2.0 has been relatively low. Theoretical lens from service science and value co-creation are adapted from the literature and integrated with findings from prior e-Government research to develop a conceptual framewor...

Lone parents are a growing group in Great Britain and elsewhere, and one with high rates of poverty and receipt of social assistance. This article investigates some of the links between lone parenthood, economic activity and social background. It also provides longitudinal and event-history analysis of life-history data from mid-1990s Great Britain, to look at transitions between different fami...

The population of elderly is rapidly increasing in Japan and we expect that one fourth of our population are older than sixty-five years in 2020, which amounts to thirty five million people. The number of people with dementia, who need some types of care, is then estimated to be about three million, which occupies eight percent of elderly people. The change suggests that we can no longer hospit...