Valuable resources often exist at distant points from a firm’s current locations, so that strategic decisions such as growth have a spatial dimension in which firms seek information and choose between geographically distributed alternatives. Studies show that geographic proximity facilitates the flow of resources, but there is limited understanding of factors that exacerbate or ease the impact ...

purpose to evaluate the effect of ramadan fasting on body water status markers of rugby players at basal condition and following a simulation of rugby sevens match. methods twelve recreational rugby sevens players played three matches: one day before ramadan (before ramadan), at the end of the first week of ramadan (beg-r) and at the end of ramadan (end-r). before and immediately after each mat...

We view match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g., XML schemas) and produces a mapping between the nodes of these graphs that correspond semantically to each other. Semantic schema matching is based on the two ideas: (i) we discover mappings by computing semantic relations (e.g., equivalence, more general); (ii) we determine semantic relations by analyzing the meaning (con...

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The field of special effects in post-production has undergone an exciting period of innovation in recent years. There has been a surge in demand for camera tracking or “matchmoving”. A number of companies have built manual matchmoving products, and more recently automatic matchmovers have come to market. We will discuss the nature of the problems that the industry requires solved, and the produ...

Some species introduced into new geographical areas from their native ranges wreak ecological and economic havoc in their new environment. Although many studies have searched for either species or habitat characteristics that predict invasiveness of exotic species, the match between characteristics of the invader and those of members of the existing native community may be essential to understa...

a total of twenty local and foreign maize (zea mays l.) hybrids in five different maturity group were studied in mashhad for two years (2007-2008). temperature variations were created by two planting dates (5 may and 20 may). results indicated that both indices, gdd and chu, estimated heat units of different maturity hybrids and based on, created similar groups of hybrids. both indices showed s...