George Ritzer, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, has proposed an influential thesis that suggests that many aspects of the fast food industry are making their way into other areas of society. This article explores whether his thesis, known as the McDonaldization thesis, is applicable to academic libraries. Specifically, it seeks to determine to what extent academic libraries may be c...

Estimation of the pose of an object, or equivalently estimation of a rigid motion, is a prerequisite to many tasks in robotics like perception and manipulation. We want to estimate object poses, consisting of orientation and position of a target object, with 6 degrees of freedom (DOF). We use dual quaternions for the representation of the pose and Mixtures of Projected Gaussians as probability ...

I this paper, we study the entry and expansion decisions of McDonald’s and KFC in China using an originally assembled data set on the two chains’ expansion in the China market from their initial entry up to year 2007. We analyze how the presence of a rival affects each firm’s strategies. The results indicate that a rival’s presence has a net positive effect on a chain’s expansion decision. We f...

لا ةصلاخ : نأ مو لعملا ن م ويد يفلا ة جلاعم ي ف ر مزلا ة آرح ريد قت (video) ً ار يبآ اً ئبع ل ثمي جلا عملا ةد حو ي ف يزآرملا (CPU) . ة مءَلاملاو ثحبلا يروط نيسحتل ةعيرس تا يمزراوخ ريوطت مت كلذل . تا يمزراوخلا هذ ه يناكملا لقحلا يف لمعت . تا يمزراوخ يف ةرفوتملا تاعرسلا نم ديفتست ةديدج ةيمزراوخ حرتقن لاقملا اذه يفو ةعيرسلا هييروف (FFT) . ددحت ةحرتقملا ةيمزراوخلاو مادختساب يعجرملا راطلإاو ةرفشملا ةر...

Automatic detection of image orientation is a very important operation in photo image management. In this paper, we propose an automated method based on the boosting algorithm to estimate image orientations. The proposed method has the capability of rejecting images based on the confidence score of the orientation detection. Also, images are classified into indoor and outdoor, and this classifi...

This paper presents an empirical study of the accuracy of multipole expansions of Helmholtz-like kernels with complex wavenumbers of the form k = (α + iβ )θ , with α = 0,±1 and β > 0, which, the paucity of available studies notwithstanding, arise for a wealth of different physical problems. It is suggested that a simple point-wise error indicator can provide an a-priori indication on the number...