The paper (McMaster & Wastell, 2005) basically discusses the concept of ‘diffusionism’, which was originally introduced by Rogers (1962) to describe the processes of technology transfer and adoption by individuals, states or countries. Diffusionism has influenced the way of thinking in western society in almost all fields, and is considered as a moral justification for the colonialist exploitat...

A single server waiting line system with Poisson arrivals and Inverse Gaussian service times has been analyzed. The same model has been analyzed by using Mukherjee-Islam (1983) model as the service time model. Inverse Gaussian model has been used in queuing theory but the Mukherjee-Islam model which is basically a failure model has been tested first time as the service time model.

This paper approximates ground truth for real-world stereo sequences and demonstrates its use for the performance analysis of a few selected stereo matching and optical flow techniques. Basically we assume zero roll and constant tilt of an ego-vehicle (for about 10 seconds) driving on a planar road.

Computer hardware and Internet is growing so fast today, security threats of malicious executable code are getting more serious. Basically, malicious executable codes are categorized into three kinds – virus, Spam, Trojan horse, and worm. Current anti-virus products cannot detect all the malicious codes, especially for those unseen, polymorphism malicious

We consider directed planar graphs with an upward planar drawing on the rolling and standing cylinders. These classes extend the upward planar graphs in the plane. Here, we address the dual graphs. Our main result is a combinatorial characterization of these sets of upward planar graphs. It basically shows that the roles of the standing and the rolling cylinders are interchanged for their duals.

In this paper, we propose a new approach to emotional interaction of software agents with human users. The basic idea comes from Wallon’s theory of human primary development. By assuming an innate structure used in common with both sympathy and social conditioning, we propose a fundamental agent architecture. With this architecture, we make a few experiments, basically for testing conditioning ...

An algorithm for the generation of hexahedral element meshes is demonstrated. The algorithm starts by creating a structured grid in the interior of an object. Then the boundary region is meshed by means of an isomorphism technique that uses basically 2D-operations. Examples are given that demonstrate the quality of the algorithm.

The comparative wavelet analysis presented in details by Demiralp et al. (1999), Ademoglu (1995) and by Başar et al. (2001) will be now applied to oddball P300 results (see Başar-Eroglu et al., 2001). The results obtained basically confirm those obtained by using adaptive digital filtering: The delta response dominates the P300 potential while the theta response is prolonged in a second late wi...

2 Duality, central trajectories and We develop an interior-point technique for soiving quadratic dynamical systems programming problem in a Hilbert space.As an example we consider an application of these results to the linear-quadratic control problem with linear inequality constraints. It is shown that the Newton step in this situation is basically reduced to solving the standard linear-quadra...

I argue that the GANE (glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects) model basically explains an arousal-based amplification of emotional stimuli, whereas effects on neutral stimuli indicate a contextualization process aiming to reduce stimulus ambiguity. To extend the model's validity, I suggest distinguishing between internal and external emotional sources, as well considering the stimulus valen...