On June 29, 2011, Vicente García-Díaz defended his PhD thesis at Oviedo University, titled: “MDCI: Model-Driven Continuous Integration”. The research was funded by the Government of the Principality of Asturias (Spain). Vicente García-Díaz defended his dissertation in a publicly open presentation held in the School of Computer Engineering at Oviedo University, and was able to comment on every q...

Venezuelans are to vote on December 2 on major constitutional reform proposals of president Hugo Chávez. If they are approved, Chávez will have consolidated his hold on power and will have substantially diminished the chances of success of any future challenges to his leadership. They will also bring about a number of significant changes that are intended to pave the way for a wholesale restruc...

There are introduced two new steganalytic methods not depending on the statistics of the cover objects, namely side attacks stegosystems. The first one assumes that the plaintext, encrypted before embedding, is known by the attacker. In this case, the stegosystem’s detection is based on the calculation of mutual information between message and extracted encrypted data. For this calculation, a n...

It is proven that for compact, connected and semisimple structure groups every degenerate labelled web is strongly degenerate. This conjecture by Lewandowski and Thiemann implies that diffeomorphism invariant operators in the category of piecewise smooth immersive paths preserve the decomposition of the space of integrable functions w.r.t. the degeneracy and symmetry of the underlying labelled ...

(CPOOS) Method with Application to Chromosome Analysis Boaz Lerner*, Hugo Guterman#, and Its’hak Dinstein# *University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK # Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel Abstract Classification of segment images created by connecting points of high concavity a...

On December 2, when Venezuelans delivered President Hugo Chávez his first electoral defeat in nine years, most analysts were taken by surprise. According to o⁄cial results, 50.7 percent of voters rejected Chávez’s proposed constitutional reform, which would have expanded executive power, gotten rid of presidential term limits, and paved the way for the construction of a “socialist” economy. It ...

The authors would like to acknowledge the generous assistance of a number of researchers with special knowledge of the Maya Forest, especially Kevin Gould, Ms candidate at the University of Florida, Professor Hugo Guillen, from the University of Chiapas, and Daniel Juhn from Conservation International, who provided the imagery, and, of course the members of the Maya Forest Coalicion and MAB-TED...

Improved access to the Internet along with technological advances in hardware and software are prompting social scientists to move their research pursuits from the laboratory into cyberspace. While evidence suggests that online research is equivalent if not superior to traditional offline (i.e., paper-pencil [PP]) methods (Buchanan & Smith, 1999; Campos et al., 2011; Lonsdale et al., 2006; Meye...