Due to preservation and conservation issues, manuscripts are normally kept in research libraries far from public gaze. On rare occasions, visitors can see these priceless objects, typically separated from them by a sealed case, with only a fixed double page spread visible from a manuscript that may contain hundreds of folios. This restricts the amount of knowledge offered by these books. This p...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether, where and when manuscripts were published following rejection by the Journal of the Danish Medical Association, a general medical journal published in Danish. Similar previous studies have focused on specialty/subspecialty journals published in English. DESIGN Manuscripts rejected during a 4-year period were searched for in PubMe...

Prior to clinical use, pharmacogenetic tests should be systematically evaluated for their clinical validity and utility. Here, we evaluated whether the publicly available, online Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base (PharmGKB) could facilitate such assessments by efficiently identifying relevant peer-reviewed manuscripts. The search targets were 55 manuscripts regarding clinical validity and utility...

Optical character recognition refers to the process of translating segmented hand-written images or typewritten images into machine editable text. In this study, we propose a Tamil palm leaf manuscripts character recognition system using FFBNN technology. First the palm leaf manuscripts characters are segmented by exploiting the sliding window and adaptive histogram calculation. Afterwards, the...

We are delighted to announce that Circulation is now receiving manuscripts and reviews electronically. We had attempted to avail our readers and supporters of an online system more than two years ago, but the existing systems were not sufficient to handle the large volume of manuscripts that we were receiving and reviewing at Circulation. We are pleased that with the advancement of technology, ...

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kimia-ye sa'adat is the most important work of abu hamed mohammad ghazzali in persian which has been edited and published twice in iran: the first time in 1940/1319 š by ahmad aram, and the second time in 1982/1361 š by hossein khadiv jam who had already published the first half of the book in 1976/1355 š. this article seeks to study these two editions, especially the one by khadiv jam, and com...