Video image has the advantage of large amount of information, good real-time performance and low cost, so automatic people counting based on video image has very high practical value, and many scholars have done a large number of experiments and studies on this and achieved certain achievements. But for scenes with more occlusion and background changing quickly and without obvious rules, it’s d...

Business Process Management is an important management practice for business transformation and organizational change. This paper presents a Business Process Management implementation approach in a large international company. It introduces a process management maturity assessment which was developed to assess the implementation of Business Process Management and the achievements. The maturity ...

Can you imagine a world in which the spread of globalisation meant the world becoming a more just and equitable place? This seems like an impossible dream. All the indications are that the current forms of globalisation are making the world a safe place for unfettered market liberalism and the consequent growth of inequities. This economic globalisation is posing severe threats to both people’s...

In General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a mobile station (MS) is tracked at the cell level during packet transmission, and is tracked at the routing area (RA) level when no packet is delivered. A READY Timer (RT) mechanism was proposed in 3GPP 23.060 to determine when to switch from cell tracking to RA tracking. In this mechanism, a threshold interval is defined. If no packet is delivered withi...

The idea that all humans naturally belong to one of a few biological types or races that evolved in isolation was unchallenged for centuries, but large-scale modern studies failed to associate racial labels with recognizable genetic clusters. Recently, the conclusions of those studies have been questioned by authors who argue that racial classification has objective scientific bases and is indi...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of knowledge management (KM) maturity of credit unions. The application of a maturity model to fifteen credit unions in North America revealed that an overall level of KM maturity of credit unions is at an early stage of development, but there are signs of future improvement. Credit unions attempt to increase their efficiency through KM solu...

This paper describes our experiments of using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to generate (counter-)facts from texts for certain namedentities. We give the human annotators a paragraph of text and a highlighted named-entity. They will write down several (counter-)facts about this named-entity in that context. The analysis of the results is performed by comparing the acquired data with the recognizing ...

We sought to determine, among veterans released from Washington state prisons from 1999 through 2003, the risk of death from all causes, whether those veterans have faced a higher risk of death than have nonveterans, and whether having VA benefits decreased the risk of death. We linked data from a retrospective cohort study to data from the Veterans Benefit Administration. Mortality rates were ...