This paper gives an insight into the readiness of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) for accepting e-government services in he UK. We conducted a survey of 128 SMEs, which revealed that there is a moderate dema...
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This paper gives an insight into the readiness of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) for accepting e-government services in he UK. We conducted a survey of 128 SMEs, which revealed that there is a moderate demand for e-government services, but they were not rated as efficient and essential for SMEs' businesses as conventional services. The proliferation of the UK government's Web sites, which requires co-ordination between several organisations/multiple sites, and inadequate awareness of such services, do not comply with the common concepts of e-governance and consequently have an impact on the SMEs acceptance of e-government services in the UK
Controllability and observability problems may manifest themselves during the application of a test or checking sequence in a test architecture where there are multiple remote testers. These problems often require the...
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Image quality assessment plays an important role in various image-processing applications. In this work, we evaluate image quality criteria based on mean square error, signal to noise error, and quality and structural...
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Image quality assessment plays an important role in various image-processing applications. In this work, we evaluate image quality criteria based on mean square error, signal to noise error, and quality and structural similarity indices on ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery. These criteria as well as statistical and texture features were computed on 80 images recorded from two different ultrasound scanners before and after despeckle filtering, and after despeckle filtering and normalization. Results showed that image quality was improved after despeckle filtering and normalization for both scanners. This finding is also in agreement with the optical perception evaluation carried out by two vascular experts.
Atherosclerosis is the major cause of heart attack and stroke in the western world. In this paper we present a computerized method for segmenting the athrerosclerotic carotid plaque from ultrasound images. The method ...
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Atherosclerosis is the major cause of heart attack and stroke in the western world. In this paper we present a computerized method for segmenting the athrerosclerotic carotid plaque from ultrasound images. The method uses the blood flow image first to detect the initial contour of the plaque, and then despeckle filtering and snakes to deform the initial contour for best fit of plaque boundaries. The accuracy and reproducibility of this method was tested using 35 longitudinal ultrasound images of carotid arteries and the results were compared with the manual delineations of an expert. The comparison showed that the computerized method gives satisfactory results with no manual correction needed in most of the cases. The true positive fraction, TPF, true negative fraction, TNF, false negative fraction, FNF and false positive fraction, FPF, were 86.44%, 84.03%, 8.5%, and 7% respectively.
Using the Internet for electronic business has become an area of action for the Australian government. This paper presents research results from two regional areas, which indicate that while most manufacturing SMEs us...
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informationsystems (IS) is probably the most frequently used name for a variety of academic programs focusing on applied information technology, whose curricula is available from a range of schools and university dep...
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informationsystems (IS) is probably the most frequently used name for a variety of academic programs focusing on applied information technology, whose curricula is available from a range of schools and university departments. For more than a decade we have successfully run at the University of Westminster, UK, BSc and MSc courses in IS, within our IS department of the Cavendish school of computerscience. The major developments of curriculum design related to subject content, construction of courses and teaching learning strategies, has triggered changes in our IS programs which were implemented through the IS course reviews in 2002. This paper addresses the purpose of course reviews within the UK Higher Education (HE) environment, gives a rationale for our curriculum changes, describes the revalidated IS courses at both BSc and MSc levels including our teaching and assessment strategies, and comments on our progress to date.
The higher-order π-calculus is an extension of the π-calculus to allow communication of abstractions of processes rather than names alone. It has been studied intensively by Sangiorgi in his thesis where a character...
The higher-order π-calculus is an extension of the π-calculus to allow communication of abstractions of processes rather than names alone. It has been studied intensively by Sangiorgi in his thesis where a characterisation of a contextual equivalence for higher-order π-calculus is provided using labelled transition systems and normal bisimulations. Unfortunately the proof technique used there requires a restriction of the language to only allow finite types. We revisit this calculus and offer an alternative presentation of the labelled transition system and a novel proof technique which allows us to provide a fully abstract characterisation of contextual equivalence using labelled transitions and bisimulations for higher-order π-calculus with recursive types also.
This paper addresses the issue of selective disclosure of verifiable content. It extends previous work relating to Content Extraction Signatures [21] to implement a more complex structure that encodes a richer, more f...
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Consider two strings A and B of lengths n and m respectively, with n m. The problem of computing global and local alignments between A and all m2 substrings of B can be solved by the classical Needleman-Wunsch and Smi...
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