by Robert Tripp (2001)
"This book provides a detailed look at the strengths and weaknesses of seed management in traditional farming systems, reviews the history of formal plant breeding and the origins of seed trade, and examines the roles of the public and private sectors in the contemporary seed systems of industrialised and developing countries." "The book also describes the major types of aid interventions in developing country seed systems and explains why many of these have not been successful." "The examples in this book are drawn from original research in Asia, African and Latin America as well as from an extensive review of the literature."--Jacket.
Marie Quint
A photocopy of the minutes of the meeting of the Price Negotiation Committee is enclosed. However, the minutes of the meeting of the Finance Minister held on 10-01-2008 in which the decision for extending the contract was taken, have not yet been approved. A photocopy of the same will be sent after the approval of the Minutes by the Hon'ble Chairman, Finance Department and its circulation to all concerned.
Cornelius E. Tierney ... [et al
This comprehensive book features a step-by-step approach for engagement performance and provides controls guidance for Federal government entities as set forth in Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley and the revised Federal OMB Circular A-123. The new internal control requirements go into effect in fiscal year 2006.
J.R. Norris
Markov chains are central to the understanding of random processes. This is not only because they pervade the applications of random processes, but also because one can calculate explicitly many quantities of interest. This textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduate or MSc students with some background in basic probability theory, focuses on Markov chains and quickly develops a coherent and rigorous theory whilst showing also how actually to apply it. Both discrete-time and continuous-time chains are studied. A distinguishing feature is an introduction to more advanced topics such as martingales and potentials in the established context of Markov chains. There are applications to simulation, economics, optimal control, genetics, queues and many other topics, and exercises and examples drawn both from theory and practice. It will therefore be an ideal text either for elementary courses on random processes or those that are more oriented towards applications.
Milan Petkovic, Willem Jonker
This book focuses particularly on content-based video retrieval. After addressing basic concepts and techniques in the field, Content-Based Video Retrieval: A Database Perspective concentrates on the semantic gap problem, i.e., the problem of inferring semantics from raw video data, as the main problem of content-based video retrieval. This book identifies and proposes the integrated use of three different techniques to bridge the semantic gap, namely, spatio-temporal formalization methods, hidden Markov models, and dynamic Bayesian networks. As the problem is approached from a database perspective, the emphasis evolves from a database management system into a video database management system. This system allows a user to retrieve the desired video sequence among voluminous amounts of video data in an efficient and semantically meaningful way. This book also presents a modeling framework and a prototype of a content-based video management system that integrates the three methods and provides efficient, flexible, and scalable content-based video retrieval. The proposed approach is validated in the domain of sport videos for which some experimental results are presented.