-1- Sociology Among the Social Sciences Mattei Dogan Source: Encyclopedia of Sociology‚ 2nd Edition‚ E. Borgatta and R. Montgomery (eds.)‚ pp. 2913-2927 The relationship between sociology and the other social sciences is in reality relationship between sectors of different disciplines‚ not between whole disciplines. Sociology is one of the most open disciplines toward other disciplines. This openness is manifested in the citation patterns in academic publications‚ which allow one to measure
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Over the last few years the world of free and open source geospatial software has experienced some major changes. For instance‚ the website FreeGIS.org currently lists 330 GIS related projects. Besides the advent of new software projects and the growth of established projects‚ a new organisation known as the OSGeo Foundation has been established to offer a point of contact. This paper will give an overview on existing free and open source desktop GIS projects. To further the understanding
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mosaicing‚ weather forecasting‚ integrating information into GIS)‚ in medicine (combining CT and NMR data to obtain more complete information about the patient‚ monitoring of tumor growth‚ comparison of the patient data with anatomical atlases)‚ in cartography (map updating)‚ and in military applications (target localization‚ missile navigation). Keywords: Image registration‚ feature detection‚ feature matching‚ mapping function‚ resampling Part I: Survey 1 Introduction Image registration is the process
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Why Use GIS in Petroleum? A free eBook from Exprodat Version 1.0 (May 2012) | download latest version | | | .. .... 000000 000000 exprodat www.exprodat.corn Why Use GIS in Petroleum? Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction to GIS 5 Welcome 5 What is GIS? 5 What Can GIS Do? 7 Why You Should Care 9 Benefits of GIS 9 GIS in Petroleum 10 When Bad Stuff Happens 11 GIS Vocabulary 12 Section 2: GIS in the Petroleum Industry 14 A Brief History 14 GIS and
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study With the emergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs)‚ and electronic Government (e-Government)‚ it is possible to improve efficiency and effectiveness of internal administration within government and to re-locate government service from government offices to locations closer to the citizens (Davies‚ 2002). Examples of such locations are cyber cafe‚ telecenters‚ a personal computer at home and offices‚ while the benefits
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WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series
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Image registration methods: a survey Barbara Zitová‚ ‚ Jan Flusser Department of Image Processing‚ Institute of Information Theory and Automation‚ Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Pod vodárenskou věžı́ 4‚ 182 08 Prague 8‚ Czech Republic http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0262-8856(03)00137-9‚ How to Cite or Link Using DOI Abstract This paper aims to present a review of recent as well as classic image registration methods. Image registration is the process of overlaying images (two or
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malawi paroma GCP/GLO/208/BMG Panorama Report I PROJECT GCP/GLO/208/BMG « CountrySTAT FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA » |[pic] | | PANORAMA REPORT I M A L A W I FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Lilongwe‚ April 2011 GCP/GLO/208/BMG Panorama Report I PROJECT GCP/GLO/208/BMG « CountrySTAT FOR
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REPUBLIC OF KENYA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE‚ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY AND STRATEGY March‚ 2008 Vision A nation that harnesses science‚ technology and innovation to foster global competitiveness for wealth creation‚ national prosperity and a high quality of life for its people Mission To mainstream application of science‚ technology and innovation in all sectors and processes of the economy to ensure that Kenyans benefit from a
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PART II: UNIT III: 1450 - 1750C.E. In the previous era (600-1450 C.E.)‚ sometimes called thepost-classical period‚ we explored the rise of new civilizations inboth hemispheres‚ the spread of major religions that created culturalareas for analysis‚ and an expansion of long-distance trade toinclude European and African kingdoms. However‚ no sustained contactoccurred between the eastern and western hemisphere. During the timeperiod between 1450 and 1750 C.E.‚ the two hemispheres were linkedand for
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