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Accelerated multi-hillshade hierarchic clustering for automatic lineament extraction
The lineaments are linear features reflecting mountain ridges or discontinuities in the geological structure. Lineament extraction is not an easy...
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Deep Learning Methods for Extracting Object-Oriented Models of Building Interiors from Images
In this chapter, we present an approach of enriching photogrammetric point clouds with semantic information extracted from images of digital cameras...
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Baidu’s Financial Competitiveness Research Based on DuPont Analysis Method
With the attention of enterprise management, financial competitiveness has gradually become an important component of the company’s comprehensive...
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Nominal and Real Money, General Equivalent and Value
Classical economists, from Smith to Ricardo, from Say to Marx, have the merit to have inquired about the nature of money and its link to value. Aware...
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Integrating Environmental Justice into EU Policymaking
This chapter presents the steps undertaken by the European Union to add the well-being dimension to growth as an indicator and compass for its...
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“1900”
The arrival of the twentieth century seemed to many to be very auspicious. So much had been transformed over the past century that the human world,...
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Towards a ‘Wellbeing Economy’: What Can We Learn from Social Enterprise?
Rather than for the personal enrichment of owners or shareholders, social enterprises can be conceptualised as organisations that work to improve...
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Transdisciplinary Study of How to Integrate Our Shattered World: The Self–nonself Circulation Principle of “Living” Wholeness
The present transdisciplinary study shall challenge the long-standing problem: What is life? Indeed, it is often mentioned that we will not be able...
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Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)
This chapter discusses Alfred Marshall’s views on economic method, his demand–supply apparatus, his evolutionary theory, the idea of organic growth,...
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Endogenous Growth: Concluding Remarks and Policy Conclusions
Allyn (Young 1990) observed that there is no area in economics where there is so much confusion as increasing returns.
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Time-Frequency Adapted Market Integration Measure Based on Hough Transformed Multiscale Decompositions
Accurate quantification of the integration strength between dynamically evolving markets has become a major issue in the context of the recent...
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Religion and economic development: new insights
Historically, plethora of researchers has investigated the role of religion across multiple facets of human existence. Research in the field of...
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Industrialization and the evolution of enforcement institutions
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with incomplete contracts to examine the interaction between factor accumulation, institutions of...
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Some Remarks on the Quantification of the Company Financial Health
In the field of company management arose several models which task is the prediction of company bankruptcy. According to a study of Aziz and Dar...
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An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach to Economic and Environmental Policy
Environmentalists and economists agree that indifference to the environment has caused environmental degradation and the depletion of natural...
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A Comprehensive Framework of Understanding the Context and Content of China’s New United Front Work on Hong Kong
Three main factors shape Bei**g’s united front work in Hong Kong, namely (1) its determination to buttress the legitimacy of the Hong Kong Special...
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Obesity and Health-Care Costs in Switzerland: Dealing with Endogeneity in Non-Linear Regression Models
We draw microdata from the Swiss Household Panel to estimate the causal effect of obesity on the number of physician visits, the amount of hospital...
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From National to Local Economic Development (LED): The South African Case
The post-1994 government in South Africa placed a high priority on community and grassroots participation and initiatives, and to this end...
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Accounting in Evolving Organizations
We investigate the self-transformations and shifting interactions of organizations in a transitional society, and the implications of these processes...
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How to Avoid the Dark Side of Gamification: Ten Business Scenarios and Their Unintended Consequences
The problems that may arise from gamification have been largely ignored by researchers and practitioners alike. At the same time, use of gamification...