... Again the young people were out in force They shouted down Ceaus¸escu with cries of “Timisoara!” and “Down with the murderers!” His time had come He and Elena tried to escape the country with $1 ... crime That doesn’t mean, of course, that the police are causing the crime, just as it doesn’t mean, as some criminologists have argued, that crime will fall if crim-inals are released from prison ... that Bratton brought to life stemmed from the broken window theory, which was conceived by the criminologists James Q Wilson and George Kelling The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20
Where do we begin
... remarked:2 The paradoxical situation is that the languages will certainly dieunless we do something; but, the reality is that they may also dieeven if we do something Therefore, what do we do? The remainder ... evenwhen the opposition comes from the people themselves It is alsothe argument that must be used when people say that outsidershave no right to intervene, especially those who come from formercolonialist ... endangered.They do not know just how quickly a bilingual community canbecome monolingual They do not know about the phenomenon of rapid, catastrophic language shift (see chapter 1) They do notsee the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20
... kids, more than double the percentage two years before • The movies averaged 12 tobacco incidents per hour, up 13% from a year before and 56% from two years before Trang 16A dapted from data in ... smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu Trang 18What smoking does to audiencesIt doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that smoking doesn’t sell movie tickets, but movies do sell smoking The tobacco companies ... kills 453,000 Americans annually — 400,000 from smoking, 53,000 from secondhand smoke.2 Heart disease, emphy-sema (loss of breathing capacity) and cancer from smoking make tobacco the leading cause...
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Where Does Computational Media Aesthetics Fit? docx
... consistency, repeatability, and robustness Final thoughts What does the CMA philosophy bring to this situation? Does systematic attention to domain distinctives, such as film grammar, address these ... drawn from wide experience with the domain; it’s the distillate of a very large data set indeed Film grammar also provides the reference point for deciding the most appropriate termi-nology from ... Learned from Building a Terabyte Digital Video Library,” Computer, vol 32, no 2, Feb 1999, pp 66-73 35 B Adams, C Dorai, and S Venkatesh, “Toward Automatic Extraction of Expressive Elements from...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Where will they lead 2008? MBA STUDENT ATTITUDES ABOUT BUSINESS & SOCIETY ppt
... non-U.S citizens, 20% are from India; 20% from Europe; 19% from Asia (excluding mainland China and India); 16% from Canada; 8% from South America; 7% from Mainland China; 4% from Central America or ... values will sometimes conflict with what they are asked to do in business n As to where they expect to encounter those conflicts, “downsizing” and “investing in less-developed countries” top ... South America; 7% from Mainland China; 4% from Central America or Mexico; 3% other; 2% from Africa; 1% from Australia/New Zealand Age: The largest group of students is between 26 and 29 years...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20
Where Do I Go From Here? Civilian Transition ppt
... Trang 1Where Do I Go From Here? Civilian TransitionInCharge Debt Solutions Copyright © 2012 InCharge Debt SolutionsPublished ... and doing extraordinary and complicated tasks You learned how to work as a team to get the job done no matter the weather, no matter the circumstance and often with a lot riding on the outcome ... “Military members learn people skills that are seldom learned outside the military They must interact with people from all walks of life and likely do not have the option of changing co-workers,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 03:20
Where Do Older Americans Live? Geographic Distribution of the Older Population potx
... Trang 1Where Do Older Americans Live? Geographic Distribution of the Older PopulationMarch 5, 2007 Kirsten J Colello Analyst in Gerontology Domestic Social Policy Division ... population, and ofthose who do move, most move within the same county or state Among thosemoving to different states, the pattern has been to relocate from colder to warmerclimates, from larger metropolitan ... population, of those who domove, most move within the same county or state.7 Among those moving to adifferent state, their pattern has been to relocate from colder to warmer climates, fromlarger metropolitan...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20
Where I Wasn''''t Going potx
... up from his position at the communications sole across the bridge from Bessie, to where her shiny black hair, cutshort, framed the pert Eurasian features of the girl that seemed to behanging from ... horrible Where thebombs had come from had been the subject of acrimonious accusations on the floor of the U.N The United States had forsworn knowledge, andfor a time no one had been able to say from ... removing the work piece from its mounting, he turned to theopen double bulkhead that served as an air lock in emergencies and thatseparated his shop from the physics lab beyond, where Dr Y Chi Tung,popularly...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20
WHERE IS THE Wealth of NATIONS? pptx
... Organization of the United NationsGDP gross domestic product geNDP greened economy net domestic product GNI gross national income GNIPC gross national income per capita IO input-output IUCN The ... intensiveness at middle-income levels and intangible capital intensiveness at high-income levels Does the 2 percent share of natural capital in total wealth for high-income countries mean that ... references to dollars ($) are in U.S dollars. 3 Oil states (where oil rents exceed 20 percent of GNI) are excluded and are discussed separately in later chapters The very large resource endowments...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21
Where are we going - Josh Williams
... Trang 1WHERE ARE GOING? @jw * Josh Wiiams We Trang 2The PrefaceTrang 3In the BEGINNING Where did we come "om? Trang 4What follows is a brief history of our bizarre journey from a web ... Wiiam Wonka Trang 32FADS THE FUTURE vs.Where are we going? Trang 34Checking out • Checking In is the status update for the places we go It has succeeded where other concepts have failed • Now ... usefulness of the service Trang 37“Badges? We don’t needno stinking badges.” Trang 38• Nothing new under the sun • As a reward system, they’ve become the poster child for the success of location-based...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 09:38
Where’s the Money? Ideas on Book Promotion docx
... when it all comes down to it, the proof is in the numbers In 2010, I reported about $18,600 from book sales as income on my taxes About $15,500 came from Amazon (US), about $40 came from Amazon ... back There is the publisher's imprint again Where is it? Are there any other graphics on the back? Where? Where is Trang 7the book summary and author bio? Where is the price located? What are the ... someone won’t think you did a good enough job So what do you do? The very best you can No book is perfect, and you Trang 5can’t please everybody Just do your best and write your next book to improve...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20
Where Energy Efficiency Collides with Human Health ppt
... with win dows,doors and walls that are less well-insulated and sealed Heating and cooling systems that recycle air rather than exchangingindoor and outdoor air, as well as windows that do not open, ... Many factors can contribute to poor indoor air quality, includingoutdoor air pollution that flows into buildings In addition, indoorair can contain pollutants from cleaning products, pesticides,formaldehyde ... wood Heating and cooling systems that recycle air rather than exchanging indoor and outdoor air, as well as windows that do not open, especially in rest rooms, often lead to an accumulation of chemical...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20
Where.Am.I-Sensors.and.methods.for.mobile.robot.positioning.-.Borenstein(2001) Part 3 pps
... geomagnetic sensors difficult for indoor applications However, it may be possible to overcome this problem in the future by fusing data from geomagnetic compasses with data from other sensors 2.4.1 Mechanical ... vessel containing the compass disk and damping fluid is typically suspended from a 2-degree-of-freedom gimbal to decouple it from the ship’s motion This gimbal assembly is mounted in turn atop a floor ... arising from the “dipping” action observed in compass needles attributed to the vertical component of the geomagnetic field The dip effect varies with latitude, from no impact at the equator where...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21
Where.Am.I-Sensors.and.methods.for.mobile.robot.positioning.-.Borenstein(2001) Part 5 pptx
... navigation. If HDOP>10, suspends 2-D navigation PDOP < (HDOP + 5 )2 2 ½ PDOP > (HDOP + 10 )2 2 ½ Rockwell NavCore V If 4 satellites visible and GDOP>13, switches to 2-D navigation. PDOP > ... satellites visible and VDOP >7, will switch to 2-D navigation. Enters 3-D navigation when VDOP<5. PDOP > (HDOP + 7 ) 2 2 ½ Magnavox GPS Engine If 4 satellites visible and VDOP>10, switches ... different DOP limits that cause them to switch to two dimensional navigation when four satellites are in view but the DOP becomes too high This merely reflects the designer's preference in setting DOP...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21
Where.Am.I-Sensors.and.methods.for.mobile.robot.positioning.-.Borenstein(2001) Part 6 pot
... Electro-Optics, Inc (SEO), Orlando, FL, produces a number of laser TOF rangefinding systems employing an innovative time-to-amplitude-conversion scheme to overcome the sub-nanosecond timing requirements ... discharging from a known set point at a constant rate An analog-to-digital conversion is performed on the sampled capacitor voltage at the precise instant a return signal is detected, whereupon ... Schwartz Electro-Optics, Inc.) Intensity information from the reflected signal is used to correct the “time-walk” error in threshold detection resulting from varying target reflectivities, for an improved...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21
Where.Am.I-Sensors.and.methods.for.mobile.robot.positioning.-.Borenstein(2001) Part 7 doc
... Non-Systematic Odometry Errors Odometry is based on simple equations (see Chapt 1) that are easily implemented and that utilize data from inexpensive incremental wheel encoders However, odometry is ... Michigan. Trang 10C HAPTER 5O DOMETRY AND O THER D EAD -R ECKONING M ETHODS Odometry is the most widely used navigation method for mobile robot positioning It is well known that odometry provides good ... researchers agree that odometry is an important part of a robot navigation system and that navigation tasks will be simplified if odometric accuracy can be improved Odometry is used in almost...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21
Where.Am.I-Sensors.and.methods.for.mobile.robot.positioning.-.Borenstein(2001) Part 8 pptx
... 6Experimental results from the Université Montpellier in France [Vaganay et al., 1993a; 1993b], from the University of Oxford in the U.K [Barshan and Durrant-Whyte, 1993; 1995], and from the University ... sources that are independent from the external sensors [Parish and Grabbe, 1993] For example, the noise and error from an inertial navigation system should be quite different from that of, say, a landmark-based ... very accurate laser gyros and optical fiber gyros have come down significantly With price tags of $1,000 to $5,000, these devices have now become more suitable for many mobile robot applications...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21
Where.Am.I-Sensors.and.methods.for.mobile.robot.positioning.-.Borenstein(2001) Part 10 pot
... is 1 licensed from Houghton Mifflin Company Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company All rights reserved). In this book we don't address these methods in detail, because they do not allow ... also becomes more difficult to detect over time Kleeman and Russell approximated the temperature distribution T at a distance d from the trail and at a time t after laying the trail as where A(t) ... a custom-built robot (see Figure 7.10) equipped with an odor-sensing system The sensor system uses Trang 2Figure 7.10: The odor-laying/odor-sensing mobile robot wasdeveloped at Monash University...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21
pattern-oriented software architecture for dummies
... Chapter 1: Software Architecture Basics Chapter 2: Where Do Architectures Come From? 25 Chapter 3: What Do Software Architectures Look Like? 37 Chapter 4: Software Pattern ... www.it-ebooks.info xii Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture For Dummies Chapter 2: Where Do Architectures Come From? 25 Understanding Architectural Styles 25 Elements of ... solution space Requirement do s and don’ts Here are some good ways to ensure that your system fails: ✓ Don’t write any requirements ✓ Don’t understand the usage scenarios ✓ Don’t understand what your...
Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 15:47
atlas of cyberspaceatlas of cyberspaceMartin Dodge and Rob Kitchin What does cyberspace look like?For thousands of years, people have created maps of the world around them – cave paintings, drawings in the sand, pencil sketches, lavish manuscripts, 3- pot
... construct maps of cyberspace (adapted from The Geographer’s Craft Project by Ken Foote and Donald Huebner): ■ What is the age of the dataset? ■ Where did the data come from? ■ How accurate are positional ... (BITEARN, UUCP, and FidoNet) in addition to the Internet These networks have declined dramatically in use as the Internet has come to dominate; hence, they have been dropped from later Matrix.Net ... California, Berkeley, has produced a series of domain name maps, from a regional scale down to the scale of street in a number of selected cities This is part of his doctoral research into the geography...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20