Two types of hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) modules, with and without glass cover for generating hot water and electricity (combined heat and power, CHP) were tested to investigate power generation performance in terms of generated power (Pe) with module temperature (Tm) and solar radiation...

Credit risk evaluation has a relevant role to financial institutions, since lending may result in real and immediate losses. In particular, default prediction is one of the most challenging activities for managing credit risk. This study analyzes the adequacy of borrower's classification models...

In this paper we investigate the success of recent privatization in Austria from a capital market perspective. The empirical analysis draws upon the concept of initial public offerings indexes to document the medium-run aftermarket performance of initial public offerings (IPOs). Due to certain...

Purpose Due to the increasing complexity in supply chains and networks, several key practices have been highlighted as beneficial for supply chain performance. However, it is less known whether adopting such practices affects the innovation performance of the focal firm. This study hypothesises...

IPv6 provides more address space, improved address design, and greater security than IPv4. Different transition mechanisms can be used to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6 which includes dual stack networks, tunnels and translation technologies. Within all of this, network security is an essential...

The rationale of the research work is to suggest a multi-modal biometric authentication and secure transaction operation framework for E-Banking. The literature survey identifies the various types of E-Banking Channels available as on-date, the various types of biometric technologies available...

The color image segmentation is a fundamental requirement for microscopic biopsy image analysis and disease detection. In this paper, a hybrid combination of color k-means and marker control watershed based segmentation approach is proposed to be applied for the segmentation of cell and nuclei...

The OpenVX standard has appeared as an answer from the computer vision community to the challenge of accelerating vision applications on embedded heterogeneous platforms. It is designed to leverage the computer vision hardware potential with functional and performance portability. As long as...

Parallel sparse matrix-matrix multiplication algorithms (PSpGEMM) spend most of their running time on inter-process communication. In the case of distributed matrix-matrix multiplications, much of this time is spent on interchanging the partial results that are needed to calculate the final...

This article describes how understanding the potential characteristics of video services is very important, as it can help users or third-party applications to predict performance or to identify service strategies. For this purpose, a measurement system deployed in 11 provinces and cities in...