Since the popularity of internet and new communication technologies, the issue of information sharing has become a matter of debate. In digital world, distances are meaningless and Information could be transferred to different parts of the world in few seconds. In this paper we discuss the effect of new technologies on licensed information and copyright law. We take this position that in modern...

This paper focuses on an unsettling example of experimental labour - the Human Landing Catch (HLC). The HLC is a cheap and reliable technique to produce data on mosquito densities in a defined area. It requires only a human volunteer to sit over night with his legs exposed, a headlamp to spot mosquitoes, and a rubber tube and plastic cup to catch them as they come to feed on him. The HLC formed...

Time-series prediction has been a very well researched topic in recent studies. Some popular approaches to this problem are the traditional statistical methods e.g. multiple linear regression and moving average, and neural network with the Multi Layer Perceptron which has shown its supremacy in time-series prediction. In this study, we used a different approach based on evolving clustering algo...

This paper compares three different methods capable of estimating the deflection of the vertical (DoV): one is based on the joint use of high precision spirit leveling and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), a second uses astro-geodetic measurements and the third gravimetric geoid models. The working data sets refer to the geodetic International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) co-loc...

The present paper proposes a novel way of extracting local texture features based on the Morphological Primitive Patterns with grain components (MPP-g) on texton based Local Directional Pattern (LDP) for effective stone texture classification. To reduce the dimensionality, the proposed research used Integrated Logical Compact LDP with OR operation on Textons (ILCLDP-T). Mathematical Morphology ...

Marc Laperrouza, London School of Economics and IMD, [email protected] Yves Pigneur, University of Lausanne, [email protected] Abstract The past decade has witnessed a dramatic growth in the number of wireless technologies. In parallel, the liberalisation of telecommunications markets has led to an increasingly complex set of issues to be dealt with by a growing number of actors. A direct co...

Recently, environmental crises have become important challenges for humans. Many scientists have made efforts to reduce or prevent these crises by technological solutions. However, some researchers have emphasized on the necessity of new interactions between human and nature and the need for a new environmental culture. The present study aimed to assess the environmental culture and its influen...

Davis presented the order crossover operator for solving the travelling salesman problem (TSP) using genetic algorithm and has described two basic variants of this order crossover operator. In order to improve the efficiency and validity of these variants, in this paper three new variations of the order crossover operator are presented. These are programmed in C++ and implemented on a set of be...

Until the Uruguay Round Agreement (URAA) domestic support received less attention and it was URAA explicitly addressed the trade distortions arising out of domestic support policies in agriculture. The theories on trade distortions however claim the supremacy of border measures in distorting trade. A number of empirical studies also hold the same line of view. There are a number of reasons for ...