Going digital: Image preparation for biomedical publishing

Processing Digital Image for Measurement of Crack Dimensions in Concrete

The elements of the concrete structure are most frequently affected by cracking. Crack detection is essential to ensure safety and performance during its service life. Cracks do not have a regular shape, in order to achieve the exact dimensions of the crack; the general mathematical formulae are by no means applicable. The authors have proposed a new method which aims to measure the crack dimen...

Embracing Digital Publishing

Digital Publishing - Data Handling

SuperJournal is a research project aiming to identify what factors will make electronic journals successful and why. The project brings together some 20 society, university press and commercial publishers, who are providing electronic versions of around 50 journal titles in discrete areas of academic research. The “why?” is being established via a formal evaluation study being conducted by Loug...

A new framework for digital publishing decisions

Developments in publishing are drawing publishers into an area where it is becoming more and more difficult to assess by conventional methods whether a given activity or product is financially a good thing or not. The article looks at the reasons for this and proposes a new financial framework for decisions for publishers to ensure continued profitability as their activities develop. Learned Pu...

Put the digital into digital publishing

• Compose personalized documents for the reader. For example, once could have a text base on statistical methods, where each topic is treated at several levels (such as for readers who know calculus and those who do not) and where each method has examples from several domains. Given a reader’s background, subject domain, and learning goal, the system would then sequence of topics that build on ...