This article outlines a novel, practical, and comprehensive business transformation model using a continuous life-cycle approach applied to three dimensions of a business (processes, people, and technology). It was used ...

This paper presents a technique for oriented texture classification which is based on the Hough transform and Kohonen's neural network model. In this technique, oriented texture features are extracted from the Hough space ...

The settlement constellation of parishes or ‘parroquias’ around Cuenca, a medium-size city in the southern highlands of Ecuador, is steadily urbanizing and transforming. Transnational migration forcefully fuels this process. ...

In pen-urban rural areas of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile, the processes of socio-territorial transformation are not homogeneous spatial expression. In this, the strategies of local actors in the processes ...

Grapevine, as other woody perennials, has been considered a recalcitrant crop to produce transgenic plants. Since the production of transgenic and/or edited plants requires the ability to regenerate plants from transformed ...