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A 3D morphometric perspective for facial gender analysis and classification using geodesic path curvature features

open access: yesComputational Visual Media, 2018
The relationship between the shape and gender of a face, with particular application to automatic gender classification, has been the subject of significant research in recent years.
Hawraa Abbas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Triple Interaction: Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Regulation, and Environmental Commitment in Shaping Environmental Performance in China

open access: yesThe Engineering Economist
Growing demands for environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) from firms have been brought about by the rise of environmental sustainability and green business management. An increasing number of academics have focused on the impact of ECSR on
Di Xuan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Elderly Users’ Perspective on the Use of Technology in Daily Life: A Comparative Study of a sample in the UK and Brazil

open access: yesInteligencia Artificial, 2015
This paper investigated the perceptions of sample composed by British and Brazilian adults and older people on the use of electronic devices in their daily lives. This is an exploratory, cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 100 adults and elderly
Carla da Silva Santana, George Leeson
doaj   +1 more source

Steady state particle swarm [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Computer Science, 2019
This paper investigates the performance and scalability of a new update strategy for the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The strategy is inspired by the Bak–Sneppen model of co-evolution between interacting species, which is basically a ...
Carlos M. Fernandes   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Contribution of Madrasah Financing Management in Improving Teacher Performance in Islamic Education Institutions

open access: yesMANAZHIM
This study aims to analyze the contribution of madrasah financing management to improving teacher performance at MTs Persis 40 Sarongge. The background of this study is the importance of financing management as a supporting element in improving the ...
Ara Hidayat   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

IMPROVED CHEN’S INEQUALITIES FOR LAGRANGIAN SUBMANIFOLDS IN QUATERNIONIC SPACE FORMS [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2016
Riemannian invariants (in particular Chen invariants) play an important role in the theory of submanifolds. They are very useful in providing relationships between the extrinsic and intrinsic invariants of a submanifold.
GABRIEL MACSIM
doaj  

Management Matters [PDF]

open access: yes
New indications of managerial innovations are created and then used to show that changes in organizational technologies are an important source of economic growth.
Michelle Alexopoulos, Trevor Tombe
core  

Volumes of Evidence - Examining Technical Change Last Century Through a New Lens [PDF]

open access: yes
Although technical change is central in much of modern economics, traditional measures of it are, for a number of reasons, flawed. We discuss in this paper new indicators based on data drawn from the MARC records of the Library of Congress on the number ...
Jon Cohen, Michelle Alexopoulos
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Read All About it!! What happens following a technology shock? [PDF]

open access: yes
Existing indicators of technical change are plagued by shortcomings. I present here new measures based on books published in the field of technology that resolve many of these problems and use them to identify the impact of technology shocks on economic ...
Michelle Alexopoulos
core  

PARIGI: a Patch-based Approach to Remove Impulse-Gaussian Noise from Images

open access: yesImage Processing On Line, 2016
In this paper, we present an implementation of the PARIGI method that addresses the problem of the restoration of images affected by impulse noise or by a mixture of Gaussian and impulse noise.
Julie Delon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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