Article history: Received 21 September 2011 Received in revised form 28 December 2012 Accepted 7 January 2013 Available online 23 January 2013 This paper investigates how the state-controlling ownership and the ownership through corporate pyramid structures affect the dividend policies of publicly listed firms in China. We find that the state-controlled firms in China pay higher dividends (meas...

Foveated imaging exploits the fact that the spatial resolution of the human visual system decreases dramatically away from the point of gaze. Because of this fact, large bandwidth savings are obtained by matching the resolution of the transmitted image to the fall-off in resolution of the human visual system. We have developed a foveated multiresolution pyramid (FMP) video coder/decoder which r...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies have established the health benefits associated with the adherence to the MD (Mediterranean Diet), mainly in relation to reducing the risk of developing the non communicable diseases. The MD is a sustainable diet model that respects the environment, promotes the bio-diversity, the local cultural heritages, the social interaction and economic aspects. METHODS...

Pyramid traps coated with "industrial safety yellow" exterior latex gloss enamel paint and baited with Euschistus spp. aggregation pheromone, methyl (2E,4Z)-decadienoate captured more stink bugs than all other baited and unbaited trap types in both apple and peach orchards in 2002 and 2003. Commercial sources of dispensers of methyl (2E,4Z)-decadienoate deployed in association with pyramid trap...

The problem of computing optical ow (image velocity) for large image motions has been addressed by a number of researchers, including Bergen et al. 5], who proposed using a number of parametric models in a hierarchical (pyramid) scheme to compute large motions using image intensity derivatives computed from \warped" image patches at each pyramid level. We have implemented a modiied version of t...

This paper presents a novel framework to encode a combinatorial pyramid. A combinatorial pyramid is a hierarchy of successively reduced combinatorial maps. Important properties of the combinatorial pyramids such as topology preservation, the process global and local features within the same data structure, etc. made them useful for image processing and pattern recognition tasks. Their advantage...

The scale invariant property of an ensemble of natural images is examined, which motivates a new early visual representation termed the higher order pyramid. The representation is a non-linear generalization of the Laplacian pyramid, tuned to the type of scale invariance exhibited by natural imagery as opposed to other scale invariant images such as 1/f correlated noise and the step edge. The t...

For an interconnection network, calculating average distance of it is in general more difficult than determining its diameter. Diameters of pyramid networks are well known. This study calculates average distances of pyramid networks.