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Data Embedding in HEVC Video by Modifying the Partitioning of Coding Units
(Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019-07)
This paper proposes a data embedding solution in HEVC videos by modifying the partitioning of Coding Units (CUs). The partitions of a CU are first represented as a sequence of binary flags. The flags pertaining to 16x16 ...
MPEG-2 to HEVC Video Transcoding With Content-Based Modeling
(IEEE, 2013)
This paper proposes an efficient MPEG-2 to HEVC video transcoder. The objective of the transcoder is to migrate the abundant MPEG-2 video content to the emerging HEVC video coding standard. The transcoder introduces a ...
La gestion stratégique des affectations internationales
(Éditions de Liaisons, 2008)
La structure du chapitre. Dans les parties suivantes, nous examinerons d’abord les différentes approches de gestion du personnel international, les fonctions des affectations internationales, puis les différentes catégories ...
Implications of Cost Behavior for Analysts' Earnings Forecasts
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-03-27)
Recent work in management accounting offers several novel insights into firms' cost behavior. This study explores whether financial analysts appropriately incorporate information on two types of cost behavior in predicting ...
Combinations of absorptive capacity metaroutines: the role of organizational disruptions and time constraints
(Elsevier, 2018-04)
This paper explores absorptive capacity metaroutines in a financial organization that experienced a large-scale misappropriation episode. We selected an instrumental case and collected individual semi-structured interviews, ...
Closing the Loop: An Empirical Investigation of Causality in IT Business Value
(Elsevier, 2017-06)
Researchers have established that information technology (IT) can improve firms' productivity. Whether improved productivity leads to additional investment in IT, however, remains largely uninvestigated. In this paper, we ...
Workforce Localization in the Arab Gulf Countries: How Do Organizations Socialize the Members of a Powerful Minority?
(MDPI, 2020-07)
This paper addresses a key social–cultural aspect of sustainability in the Gulf region: Workforce localization (WL). Our research objective is to empirically explore organizational socialization (OS) practices in the context ...
The current state of female leadership in the United Arab Emirates
(Emerald, 2013)
Purpose: To research the state of affairs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the presence (or absence) of women in senior business leadership positions, and to investigate where they are located within organizations ...
The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale
(European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 2005)
The adjustability of expatriate managers has a major influence on the success or failure of their mission. Yet, because of the difficulty of measuring this antecedent, it does not always receive the attention that it ...
Stop-Go Monetary Policy
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)
We propose and estimate several discrete choice models of monetary policy decision-making that feature time-varying inertia. The models permit us to account for three stylized facts characterizing monetary policy making ...