... generate the full 3D depth image as well as a 2D color texture imageThe highly accurate detection and localization of the laser stripe enhances the resolution and accuracy of the depth imageThe ... accurately detect the position of the laser The geometric configuration of the edges of the laser light with respect to the camera is the information used in the calibration of the device and subsequent ... each column 2 and 20 We apply the kernels and to theimage to get the edge response This edge response will then be used to accurately detect the position of the laser in theimage plane ∗...
... asterisk is forthe unstable intermediate species for each of the two forms The equilibrium between the hexacoordinate[-AH]* species andthe pentacoordinate[-AH] form is not guaranteed, because the swung-out ... lead to therequired rate constant, that is to say kout forthe full conversion reaction The situation was the same with the pH-jump experiments Therefore, the practical way to reach the intrinsic ... k0 is the rate constant forthe basal displacement by H2O, kH is the rate constant forthe protoncatalyzed displacement by H2O, and kOH is the rate constant forthe displacement by OH The extent...
... the respective hypernym concept If the MDL is lower forthe set of hyponyms than the hypernym, the hyponyms are left in the partial hierarchy Otherwise the expansion of the hypernym towards the ... minimises the sum of encoding both the model andthe data The model length (ML) is defined as k ∗ log2 |S|, ML = with k the number of concepts in the partial hierarchy between the top concept andthe ... WordNet HMM is the product of the probabilities of the transitions within the path The probability p(a|r) is then defined as the sum of the probabilities of all paths from the concept r to the word...
... countries, such as in the Netherlands andthe United Kingdom, although they generally constituted a much smaller share of the loan pool than in the United States The analysis of the effect of banking ... regressions for between 16 and 20 OECD countries, over the period circa 1980-2005 The dependent variable is the standard deviation in annual real house price growth andthe model also controls for macroeconomic ... properties and undeveloped land can encourage the appropriate use of land for residential and business property in urban areas For instance, linking the assessment of property value for tax purposes...
... Krasner and Wright (2005) on the other hand hypothesized that simultaneous formation and volatilization were responsible forthe 34% decrease they observed in tap water chloroform after boiling for ... of the procedures followed by the two laboratory groups in order to assess the compatibility of the approaches taken by the two laboratories andthe reasonableness of the data produced forthe ... depending on whether or not the data were log-transformed The factor analyses helped confirm to identification of the major VOC groups andthe likely sources of exposure For further analysis in the present...
... e−i(θ/2) = iθ for even k, (2.24) for oddk, for even k, for odd k The following result holds true Theorem 2.5 Assuming that the multiplicity of the roots and −1 of both polynomials ρk (z) and σk (z) ... answer the question concerning the values assumed by the polynomials ρk−1 (z) and σk (z) on the unit circle Theorem 3.8 Let σk (z) be the polynomial satisfying the difference equation (3.4) Then, for ... modulus and σk (z) has not roots of unit modulus Then, the assertions of the theorem follow from Remark 4.1 We are now in the position to give the main results related to the stability problem Theorem...
... shaped by the firm’s assets andthe evolution path it has adopted or inherited These theories emphasize the significance of knowledge, and place the practices that surround the development and use ... designers in the optimization of their designs The 18 Knowledge andthe firm advantages forthe automaker are significant First, the market demands regular production of new models, and by avoiding the ... transaction costs and of the resource-based theory of the firm and overcome their limitations He compares and contrasts the two theories and discusses the weaknesses of the approaches He argues that transaction...
... 2000) The blending of transaction costs economics andthe resource-based theory makes it possible to understand the constraints andthe limitations that the costs of using the hierarchies andthe ... understanding the firm A clear understanding of the role of technological and organizational knowledge in the theory of the firm is provided by the resource-based approach 32 Knowledge andthe firm ... necessary to understand the firm The understanding of the factors affecting the choice between inclusion and exclusion, including the costs of using respectively the markets andthe internal hierarchies,...
... process and activity The problem for both academics conceptualizing the process andfor firms themselves is how wide should they conceive the process to be For firms themselves, part of the reason ... teams and components can be ready when the plane arrives and problems can be solved before they create a major difficulty forthe company and its customer For companies like Rolls-Royce, therefore, ... property is the ‘performance’ effect, whereby a new service may improve the performance of the good The most obvious 62 Knowledge andthe firm Services Maintenance and repair Repurchase, disposal and recycling...
... If the identification of capabilities, and indeed formulating these in the context of activities and complementarity, is a dynamic and emergent process, we can examine these further in the contexts ... month The charge forthe basic Internet bank service is comparable to the charge the bank demands for a mailing service for paying bills through the centralized Swedish systems for paying bills The ... database included information on mailings to the customer and whether the customer had responded to these, the latest transactions, andthe customer’s overall connections to the bank When this...
... between the bank’s information system andthe server The intermediary had the job of configuring the server, designing the web pages, and adapting them to an Internet environment At the same time the ... between the Internet project andthe kiosque micro ‘ the web pages with information about the services forthe Internet will be reutilized forthe PC version of the minitel service because of the ... between the customer’s operations andthe carrying out of the transaction by the bank; and (4) a possibility to subscribe online to minitel banking, and to look and research the movements on the...
... of the sources that contributed to the formation of a firms’ early knowledge base, which included the origin and background of the entrepreneurs andthe set of formal and informal linkages they ... although the chances of success depend very much on the nature of the 158 Innovation and firm strategy technologies, the resources available andthe background of the entrepreneurs On the other hand, ... and technological knowledge andthe markets – and we will attempt to understand the motives and strategies underlying their establishment Although, for methodological reasons, technological and...
... sources; (2) the conditions in which they searched for these sources and their ability to gain access to and establish relationships with them, as well as the capacity to absorb and use the knowledge ... all of the 23 themes lend themselves to meaningful interpretation, and a few of the meaningful themes appear quite randomly across the 180 patents, as indeed they should on the basis of their ... a variety of national and foreign databases for R&D projects and patents andthe consultation of firms’ web pages, as well as other documentation available on them The information obtained was...
... The research mandate of GRIs in this field, on the other hand, allows them to share much of the combinatorial cognitive advantages of food firms, and they orchestrate and appropriate their own R&D ... to the 1980s To conclude, the pattern is entirely inconsistent with – and in some respects the opposite from – the model from the technology cycle literature We may assume, therefore, that the ... than they receive assignments (j), andthe level of their participations is 13.2 times higher than their number of assignments (k) The latter ratio is 4.9 for GRI, indicating their proclivity for...
... detailed information exists for only a few countries, including the USA where the business sector itself collects the data (Larson, 2001).9 Fortunately, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and ... getting the better of sharing and exchanging information with the worldwide scientific community The correlation and causality between diminishing resources for corporate basic research andthe declining ... rewards for themselves It enables the creation of a private asset forthe ‘discoverer’ resulting from the very fact of giving up exclusive rights The need to be identified and recognized as the discoverer...
... by the linearity of the Fisher–Pry plot The ␣ is the diffusion coefficient of the product to the market If the time span between Fϭ0.1 and Fϭ0.9, is conveniently taken to express the spread of the ... is carried out in the form of a Fisher–Pry plot, the slope of the straight line corresponds to the time span in the expression of the normalized scale of the vertical axis As the logistic curve ... in the last half of 18th century This cluster forms the first and second Kondratiev waves There is the second cluster located in the last half of the 19th century, which includes steel making, the...
... C0 = 1, in the expansion of κ(ω) To distinguish the steps of the original path from the steps of the inserted paths we will colour the former red andthe latter blue This leads to the idea of ... Gessel-Viennot method The interpretation of ω as the number of Ceratic Hankel paths follows from the determinant using the Gessel-Viennot theorem (theorem 2) Furthermore, theorem 4, the determinant ... 2r and uα is the height α − terrace rise Proof The terrace vertices of the ballot path of heights α = 0, 1, y − partition the path into y + subpaths The first of these is the Dyck path β0 and...
... than j and i − of them lie to the left of πi in π If πi = j then σn+1−i = n + − j There are j − total elements bigger than n + − j and i − of them lie to the right of σn+1−j in σ since there i ... ) Then i either lies in a row below i + in T or they lie in the same / row, in which case i lies to the left of i + In either case, i lies to the right of i + in σ and thus n − i + lies to the ... initial 1, the charge of 1πλ1 +λ2 +···+λi−1 +2 · · · πn π1 π2 · · · πλ1 +λ2 +···+λi−1 is equal to the charge of the newly formed σ Thus for each π ∈ Wλ with a in the λi block and σ formed in this...
... alternations either with blocks of the form π (k, ) for + > or of the form π (k, ) + for − < , and horizontal alternations with blocks of the form π (k , ) for k + > k or of the −, ) form π (k for k − ... beginning from the lower left-hand corner, and we reverse the rows and columns; for example M3,2 denotes for us the entry of M in the 3rd column from the left and 2nd row from the bottom Below ... Thus ck ≥ wm and r ≥ ym and, because of the ordering of the c’s and r’s, we have ck+1 ≤ xm and r +1 ≤ zm Therefore [ck , ck+1 ] × [r , r +1 ] is contained in [wm , xm ] × [ym , zm ] and so π([ck...