10 2012 档案
摘要:Judging from the onslaught of books, articles, and blog posts extolling Steve Jobs' virtues and condemning his vices, the question of whether leaders can replicate Jobs' results by emulating his methods is an important one. Since most managers quantitatively analyze the factors that affect t
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摘要:Beijing, China (CNN)-- Jonathon Levine was a fiercely ambitious 25-year-old with a Masters degree -- but stuck in a dead end job.This is not how it was meant to be for a boy raised in New York City, nourished on the American dream that hard work and a good education would bring rewards and riches.So
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摘要:Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) spent billions of dollars and more than three years remodeling its flagship product. Now the hard work begins: Getting consumers, software developers and other allies excited about Windows software again.The software giant on Thursday formally introduced the touch-oriented ove
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摘要:Picture a hospice: walls painted soothing colors, landscapes hanging in the rooms, compassionate nurses at bedsides. And patients living out their last days in relative comfort—not at home, true, but also not in the cold, impersonal, constantly beeping confines of a hospital. With the patients are t
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摘要:Investors and companies are increasingly pulling money out of China and its currency in a vote of concern over its growth prospects, a development that could hinder Beijing's efforts to spark a turnaround.New data published by China's central bank Tuesday showed China's banks were net se
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摘要:Could you pack more into each day if you did everything at the optimal time?pack into:塞进,挤进 A growing body of research suggests that paying attention to the body clock, and its effects on energy and alertness, can help pinpoint the different times of day when most of us perform our best at specif...
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摘要:In the latest issue of the journalNature, science writer Alison Abbottsurveys recent researchthat tests the link between urban stress and psychosis. The association makes sense — cities are stressful places, and stress plays a known role in mental health problems — but remains hard to isolate for ob
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摘要:Even as China's economy slows from efforts to fight a bubble in high-end housing, waiting in the wings with potential to revive growth is a different housing market: the low end.Some 50 million of China's 230 million urban households live in substandard quarters often lacking their own toile
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摘要:At the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi -- one of the best engineering academies in the country -- we met Shriram, a 21-year-old man who ranked 19 out of 485,000 on the school's very demanding entrance exam. We call him Mr. Number 19.Shriram can tell you the date and time when he found ou
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摘要:A July 2012 Gallup poll puts the percentage of American adults who say they consider themselves vegetarian at 5%, and those who consider themselves vegans─who eat no meat or dairy products─at 2%.Do they know something everyone else doesn't?Far more Americans in a 2006 Gallup poll said they eat r
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摘要:Although science insists that crying is natural, culture still sends messages that strong men don’t cry.Many parents raise their sons to cry privately, if at all. It is ingrained in many men that masculine identity means holding back the tears except during times of extreme grief. Although women hav
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摘要:在C++中,读入一幅图像使用语句如下,读入的图像像素为0-255之间的某一整数:Mat disp_image = imread(path,1);其中图像每个像素的RGB值是用3元素向量来存储(B,G,R)的,某一像素点的RGB值读取方式如下:Vec3b& mp = disp_image.at<Vec3b>(j, i); //C++用向量存储像素值double B = mp.val[0]; double G = mp.val[1];double R = mp.val[2];在matlab中,读入一幅图像并转换为double型使用语句如下,读入的图像像素在0-1之...
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摘要:1.最小二乘拟合最小二乘拟合是一种数学上的近似和优化,利用已知的数据得出一条直线或者曲线,使之在坐标系上与已知数据之间的距离的平方和最小。2.RANSAC算法参见王荣先老师的博文 http://www.cnblogs.com/xrwang/archive/2011/03/09/ransac-1.html3,直线拟合建立模型时利用直线的一般方程AX+BY+C=0,随机选取两点构建直线模型,计算每个点到此直线的TLS(Total Least Square),TLS小于一定阈值时的点为符合模型的点,点数最多时的模型即为最佳直线模型。再根据此时的直线参数画出最终拟合直线。4.椭圆拟合建立模型时利用椭圆
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摘要:College student Liu Qikun recently went into debt to buy a $280 cellphone─and that is potentially good news for the unbalanced Chinese economy.Ms. Liu, 22 years old, took out a loan in an electronics store from a kiosk run by Home Credit BV, a consumer-lending unit of Amsterdam-based investment comp
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摘要:On Weibo, China’s Twitter, this week, the second most popular topic—right behind “Tourist stabbed for returning ticket!” and above breaking news of a pop star’s divorce—was “Are you happy?” Over three million bloggers were discussing this question at once. It had been posed by a popular state-sancti
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摘要:openCv学习笔记(二)—cv::Mat学习由于在写上一篇图像的数据结构时,发现自己只知道CvMat,竟然还有Mat数据结构,真是无知了,看了这么多程序,貌似没有看到这个结构。有可能那些程序都是些老版本的例子,这是在2.0以后加上的,所以我也得紧跟呀!以下是自己的学习心得。。。。一、Mat简介 在2001年刚刚出现的时候,OpenCV基于 C 语言接口而建。为了在内存(memory)中存放图像,当时采用名为 IplImage 的C语言结构体,时至今日这仍出现在大多数的旧版教程和教学材料。但这种方法必须接受C语言所有的不足,这其中最大的不足要数手动内存管理,其依据是用户要为开辟和销毁内存负责。
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摘要:Selling to China's diverse 1.34 billion has long been a challenge for many companies, but the difficulties are mounting as China's population of consumers divides even further along class lines.mounting:逐渐增加,爬上,装备 According to new research from consultancy McKinsey & Co., a dichotomy is
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摘要:It is hard to see the euro-zone crisis from the top of the Eiffel Tower these days: There are too many foreign tourists blocking the view.downturn:衰退,下降,低迷时期 Eiffel Tower:埃菲尔铁塔 While many Europeans have cut back on vacations this year, one part of the tourist economy has held up better against...
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摘要:IntroIn terms of evolution, the speciesHomo sapiensis extremely successful. The populations of other species positioned at a similar level on the food chain tend to max out at about 20 million. We, by contrast, took just 120,000 years to achieve our first billion members, and then needed only anothe
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摘要:MOST people think they know what a failed state looks like. An obvious one is Somalia, where an outbreak of famine in the south was formally acknowledged by the United Nations this week. Help has started to trickle in after the Shabab, an Islamist militia, lifted its ban on aid agencies that it once
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摘要:WALMART, an American supermarket chain, has been having a tough time recently in China, one of its fastest growing markets. On October 25th it reopened 13 stores in the south-western region of Chongqing which were closed for two weeks as punishment for mislabelling a pork product. Chinese officials
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