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Privacy Protection Performance of De-identified Face Images with and without Background
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-05-31)This paper presents an approach to blending a de-identified face region with its original background, for the purpose of completing the process of face de-identification. The re-identification risk of the de-identified ... -
The Private Equity Business Model : On terra firma or shifting sands?
(2012-02-12)This paper reveals how the financial crisis undermined the performance of Private Equity Partnerships (PEPs). The private equity business model depends upon leveraged finance coupled with corporate transformation from ... -
Private pension funds in emerging economies : from broken promises to financialisation
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Privatisation and Poverty Reduction
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Privatisation for Poverty Reduction : The case of Bangladesh
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)The shift in the last two decades from a state-led to a market oriented development strategy in most of the developing countries under the directions of the World Bank and the IMF has had its repercussions on policy making ... -
Privatisation for poverty reduction?
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Privatisation of state-owned enterprises in Spain: redefining the political economy
(2001)Spain was at the forefront of a worldwide wave of privatisation in the 1990s. The process was driven by a mixture of pragmatism, belief in its economic benefits and a desire to be at the heart of Europe. It was lubricated ... -
Pro-inflammatory cytokines and lipopolysaccharide synergize to induce L-arginine transport and iNOS activity in vascular smooth muscle cells
(1995)The interactions between proinflammatory cytokines and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on L-arginine transporter and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) activities were examined in rat cultured aortic smooth muscle ... -
Probabilistic galactic dynamics I - the Sun and GJ 710 with Monte Carlo, linearised and unscented treatments
(2018-12-07)Deterministic galactic dynamics is impossible due to the space-time randomness caused by gravitational waves. Instead of treating stellar orbits deterministically, we integrate not only the mean but also the covariance of ... -
Probabilistic Model Checking of Constraints in a Supply Chain Business Process
(Springer Nature, 2011)Business process models represent corporate activities, their dependencies and relations, as far as they are needed to reach a specific company goal. In practice, they often exhibit stochastic behavior, e.g., to deal with ... -
A Probabilistic Model for Estimating the Depth and Threshold Temperature of C-fiber Nociceptors
(2015-12-07)The subjective experience of thermal pain follows the detection and encoding of noxious stimuli by primary afferent neurons called nociceptors. However, nociceptor morphology has been hard to access and the mechanisms of ... -
Probabilities of exoplanet signals from posterior samplings
(2012-08-12)Estimating the marginal likelihoods is an essential feature of model selection in the Bayesian context. It is especially crucial to have good estimates when assessing the number of planets orbiting stars when the models ... -
A probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
(2002-07)We report the detection of a extrasolar planet candidate orbiting the G1 V star HD 39091. The orbital period is 2083 d and the eccentricity is 0.62. With a minimum (M sin i) mass of 10.3 MJUP this object falls near the ... -
The probation service in England and Wales: A decade of radical change or more of the same?
(2020-08-01)This article reviews developments in probation in England and Wales since 2010, a decade in which services were exposed to the logic of competition and profit. In 2014, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government’s ... -
Probation training: the experience of teachers and learners
(2009)Qualifying training in probation is under review and likely to be substantially changed. This article draws on a small scale study of current training arrangements designed to explore the views of trainee probation officers, ... -
Probing a composite spin-boson environment
(2009)We consider non-interacting multi-qubit systems as controllable probes of an environment of defects/impurities modelled as a composite spin-boson environment. The spin-boson environment consists of a small number of ...