Abstract ICAR, Identity Card Automatic Reader, consists of a system for reading identity cards like passports, identity documents and driver licenses. First, document image is acquired by an own acquisition device based on a digital camera chip. Then, the image is analyzed in order to identify document type among a set of predefined models using local features analysis and text localization. Id...

The construction of brand identities today can not be reduced to a simple set of attributes that consumers/users just accept consenting and as a closed box. It is rather a system that, in a society inclusion-oriented, increasingly appears as the result of an ideal alchemy between social and product values, emotional and rational contents, collective and corporate cultures. the brand/visual desi...

This paper examines the relationship between corporate valuations and the presence, size, incentives, and identity of multiple large shareholders. Using data on a large number of firms across Western Europe, we find that about one-third of all firms, and over 40 percent of firms with one large owner, have two or more owners that each holds more than 10 percent of the voting rights. We find that...

This article examines the development of two distinct models of organising allied health professionals within two public sector health service organisations in Australia. The first case illustrated a mode of organising that facilitated a culture that focused on asset protection and whose external orientation was threat oriented because its disparate multiple identities operated as a fractured, ...