This paper presents and illustrates several cases of risk analysis involving games in two different kinds of situations. The first is a management case in which the principal sets the rules of the game for an agent managing the development of a subsystem and if late may choose to take shortcuts. The second involves a class of adversarial situations, illustrated here by the analysis of counter-i...

OBJECTIVES This report presents trends in cesarean rates for first births and repeat cesarean rates for low-risk women, in relation to the Healthy People 2010 (HP 2010) objectives. Data for the U.S. showing trends by maternal age and race and Hispanic origin are presented. METHODS Cesarean rates were computed based on the information reported on birth certificates. RESULTS With a decrease b...

Effective Communication for marketing is a vital field in business organizations, which is used to convey the details about their products and services to the market segments and subsequently to build long lasting customer relationships. This paper focuses on an emerging component of the integrated marketing communication, ie. social media networking, as it is increasingly becoming the trend. I...

This paper presents a novel approach for automatic people counting in videos captured through a conventional closed-circuit television (CCTV) using computer vision techniques. The proposed approach consists of detecting and tracking moving objects in video scenes to further counting them when they enters into a virtual counting zone defined in the scene. One of the main problems of using conven...

Organizational learning has been playing an important role for competitive advantages for the organization. Managing learning and change in the unique context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can obtain benefits from network alliance. The paper seeks to draw attention to learning approaches from adaptive learning to generative learning in a SME in the context of asymmetric learning relati...

A ccording to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 800 million people are expected to board airplanes in 1999. In 1987, the 17 largest airports accounted for more than half of the air passenger enplanement in the United States.’ As airports get larger and more complex, passengers expect more help from curbside to aircraft seat. With extensive hotel, shopping, and recreational complexes sp...

A significant nutrient load can be generated internally by publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). These nutrients can be found in the reject water, also known as side streams, of many municipal wastewater and sewage sludge treatment processes. These side streams include the reject stream from membranes, supernatant liquid from sludge digesters, and the centrate/filtrate return stream from sewa...

Diagnosis of Intermittent Faults in Discrete Event Systems Hu Hong Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto September 2012 Fault diagnosis in discrete event systems is studied using a state-based framework. Faults can be either intermittent or permanent. For intermittent faults, system may recover from faulty behaviour through re...

This paper presents the cognizant enterprise maturity model (CEMM). The model provides tripartite usage of calibration, capability assessment, and maturity advancement. The entry point is an organizational and departmental profiler that provides relevance measures based on fuzzy multicriteria group decision-making (FMCGDM) capabilities to key maturity areas (KMAs) identified for the five-level ...

In this paper, we describe an automatic people-counting system based on a wireless sensor network at a mountain area. Several people-counting systems have been proposed separately. However, these systems are not suitable to a place such as the mountain area because of a few problems. In this paper, we develop a system which can count the number of visiting people and sense environment informati...