We repeat and correct the recent calculation of the thermodynamic potential of hot QCD in the limit of large number Nf of fermions. The new result for the thermal pressure turns out to agree significantly better with results obtained from perturbation theory at small coupling. For large coupling, a nonmonotonic behaviour is reproduced, but the pressure of the strongly coupled theory does not ex...

Oil palm tree is an important cash crop in Thailand. To maximize the productivity from planting, oil palm plantation managers need to know the number of oil palm trees in the plantation area. In order to obtain this information, an approach for palm tree detection using high resolution satellite images is proposed. This approach makes it possible to count the number of oil palm trees in a plant...

To describe the state of the world, we need to describe the values of all physical quantities. In practice, due to inevitable measurement inaccuracy, we do not know the exact values of these quantities, we only know the sets of possible values for these quantities. On the class of such uncertainty-related sets, we can naturally define arithmetic operations that transform, e.g., uncertainty in a...

Currently, many users of Social Network Sites are insufficiently aware of who can see their shared personal items. Nonetheless, most approaches focus on enhancing privacy in Social Networks through improved privacy settings, neglecting the fact that privacy awareness is a prerequisite for privacy control. Social Network users first need to know about privacy issues before being able to make adj...

Opinion Mining in newspaper articles is very interesting for media monitoring, because the results can represent the foundation for many analyses such as a Media Response Analysis. But for these kinds of analyses we need to know the viewpoint for an extracted sentiment. In this paper we apply various commonly used approaches for sentiment analysis and expand research by analysing the specific p...

Context: During development managers, analysts and designers often need to know whether enough requirements analysis work has been done and whether or not it is safe to proceed to the design stage. Objective: This paper describes a new, simple and practical method for assessing our confidence in a set of requirements. Method: We identified four confidence factors and used a goal oriented framew...

Teachers need to know what they can do in their classroom practice to help pupils acquire the knowledge and skills of learning how to learn. At the same time, the transfer of knowledge among teachers and between networked schools needs to be investigated and an evidence-based model of knowledge creation and transfer in school settings needs to be developed. The Teaching and Learning Research Pr...

Wavelet analysis is an exciting new method for solving difficult problems in mathematics, physics, and engineering, with modern applications. Wavelet transform of a function is the improved version of Fourier transform. In conventional Fourier transform, we use sinusoids for basis functions. It can only provide the frequency information. Temporal information is lost in this transformation proce...