The author of the study reported here set out to understand and then explain the degree to which predominantly low-income, illiterate parents of children at a Ghanaian community school value education. Information gained from this exploratory study will contribute to…

The article analyses various approaches and the main management theories: their advantages, shortcomings, real possibilities of use by managers of companies and entrepreneurs, seeking to ensure competitiveness in the global markets, realising the objectives and obtaining optimal economical and social…

Scientific research has taken a new direction, aimed at solution of the human resource development problems in the light of new challenges posed by the European Union enlargement, formation of knowledge society and internationalization processes in private and public sectors.…

Cuba es uno de los pocos lugares en el mundo donde se obtiene producción industrial de petróleo en rocas de la asociación ofiolítica. El primer yacimiento descubierto fue Motembo en 1881 y el más reciente Cantel en el año 1978.…

We present in this paper a symbol recognition system for the graphic documents. This one is based on a contextual approach for symbol structural recognition exploiting an Object-Process Methodology. It uses a processing library composed of structural recognition processings and…

Knowledge is transmitted through relationships. In journals, we can only see the "texts". But these texts are created by authors. When we read the texts, we are developing relationships with these authors. In Voices, there are several different genres. We've…

This paper presents a new approach for human walking modeling from monocular image sequences. A kinematics model and a walking motion model are introduced in order to exploit prior knowledge. The proposed technique consists of two steps. Initially, an efficient…

Research is integral to the development of any discipline and profession, music therapy being no exception. It may seem paradoxical then, that the vision statement of Voices could be interpreted as communicating the intention of promoting the development of music…

The aim of research was to develop a Knowledge model for integrated construction project management by undertaking a complex analysis of economic, legal/regulatory, technical, technological, organizational, managerial, social, cultural, political, ethical, psychological and educational factors affecting it, and to present…

A novel Adaptive Color Image Segmentation (ACIS) System for color image segmentation is presented. The proposed ACIS system uses a neural network with architecture similar to the multilayer perceptron (MLP) network. The main difference is that neurons here uses a…