this paper examines the problematization of cultural issues related tothe dual spacization of life. the emergence of the second space of lifeover the first place of life combining local and translocal, national andtransnational capacities and challenges. we discuss the capacities andopportunities occurring through the instant communication industrywhich made the spontaneous connection between a...

The Beef Information Nucleus is a series of large, well structured progeny test programs undertaken by Breed Societies with cofunding assistance from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). Young bulls of high genetic merit are joined by either AI or natural mating to a commercial cow base to produce progeny which are managed commercially as one cohort and measured for a range of economically traits....

Text extraction is important step that strongly influences on the final recognition performance. This task is especially challenging in case of scene text which is characterized with wide set of degradations like complex backgrounds, uneven illumination, viewing angle, etc. In this paper we evaluated text extraction based on K-means clustering in HSI color space with chromatic distance and inte...

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system using Contourlet Transform (CT) based features with high retrieval rate and less computational complexity is proposed in this paper. Unique properties of CT like directionality and anisotropy made it a powerful tool for feature extraction of images in the database. Improved results in terms of computational complexity and retrieval efficiency are obse...

Previous work has demonstrated that monoc-ular vision affects the kinematics of skilled visually guided reaching movements in humans. In these experiments , prior to movement onset, subjects appeared to be underestimating the distance of objects (and as a consequence , their size) under monocular viewing relative to their reaches made under binocular control. The present series of experiments w...

A consumer makes travel distance judgment to determine the place to visit. Stores that gain favorable travel distance judgment could gain access to a large volume of customer base. Travel distance judgment is often made with the aid of technologies, such as the mobile location-based service (LBS). In the present research-in-progress, we build on the human’s environmental distance information co...

The three-phase-lag model and Green–Naghdi theory without energy dissipation are employed to study the deformation of a two-temperature fiber-reinforced medium with an internal heat source that is moving with a constant speed under a hydrostatic initial stress and the gravity field.  The modulus of the elasticity is given as a linear function of the reference temperature. The exact expressions ...