The increasingly competitive nature of the economy, and demographic, occupational and workplace change, have had a significant impact on the nature of the workplace.These changes have meant that the skill level of employees must be continuously developed.The skill mix required by organisations is changing, with employers demanding generic skills such as communication and problem-solving skills,...

We consider the problem of estimation of term structure of interest rates. Filtering theory approach is very natural here with the underlying setup being non-linear and non-Gaussian. Earlier works make use of Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). However, as indicated by de Jong (2000), the EKF in this situation leads to inconsistent estimation of parameters, though without high bias. One way to avoid ...

For effective humanitarian response in refugee camps, reliable information concerning dwelling type, extent, surrounding infrastructure, and respective population size is essential. As camps are inherently dynamic nature, continuous updating frequent monitoring time resource-demanding, so that automatic extraction strategies very useful. In this ongoing research, we used labelled data high-reso...