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Vehicle Tracking and Motion Estimation Based on Stereo Vision Sequences
(2010-12-13)
In this dissertation, a novel approach for estimating trajectories of road vehicles such as cars, vans, or motorbikes, based on stereo image sequences is presented. Moving objects are detected and reliably tracked in ...
Public health sector expenditures, health status and their role in development of Pakistan
(2010-12-21)
Health is one of the basic capabilities that generate economic freedom. Better health status is described as an indicator of economic success and failure of the nations. The availability of health care services and the ...
Non-invasive monitoring of water and solute fluxes in a cropped soil
(2010-12-15)
Although the influence of root water uptake on solute transport is commonly recognized as important, it has barely been studied throughout the literature. However, plants take up a big amount of the infiltrating water and ...
Food price volatility: the role of stocks and trade
(2015-10-14)
After a period of relatively low international food price volatility since the 1970s, prices spiked in 2007/2008 and 2011. These international price changes transmitted to domestic markets where they generate extra volatility. ...
Genetic and physiological factors of ozone tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
(2015-09-02)
Intensive human activities have contributed to the increase of tropospheric ozone. Ozone is toxic to plants and causes serious damage to crop production and global food supply. Therefore it is necessary to adapt crops to ...
International Cooperation for the Conservation and Sustainable and Fair Use of Biodiversity
(2015-09-17)
This thesis contributes to the modelling of intergovernmental cooperation for global biodiversity conservation and analyses multilateral cooperation on the genetic resource market. The inter- and transdisciplinary research ...
Genome-wide association study for reproduction traits in maternal pig breeds
(2015-11-23)
The number of piglets born alive (NBA) is one of the most important reproduction traits due to its influence on pig production efficiency. It was shown in several studies that NBA has an antagonistic relationship with later ...
The Prospects of Organic Farming in Bhutan
(2015-08-26)
The potential harmful effects of conventional agriculture (CA) and the alleged multiple benefits of organic agriculture (OA) in conjunction with the prevalence of coherent conceptual linkage between the principles of OA ...
The role of abiotic processes in the formation and degradation of gaseous nitrogen compounds in the soil
(2015-09-24)
Soils are a major source of nitrogen (N) trace gases, especially of nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitric oxide (NO). The two microbial processes nitrification and denitrification are considered the major contributors ...
Analyse der Konfiguration bei der Approximation ungleichmäßig abgetasteter Oberflächen auf Basis von Nivellements und terrestrischen Laserscans
(2015-07-30)
Seit einigen Jahren unterliegt der Bereich der Ingenieurgeodäsie einem starken Wandel, da sich diese Disziplin generell den stetig weiterentwickelnden, anwendungsbezogenen Problemstellungen widmet. Unter diesen Aspekten ...