Although abbreviations are fairly common in handwritten sources, particularly medieval and modern Western manuscripts, previous research dealing with computational approaches to their expansion is scarce. Yet present particular challenges such as text recognition natural language processing tasks. Often, pre-processing ultimately aims lead from a digitised image of the source normalised text, w...

Perceived loneliness and social competence were assessed for 127 children with ASD without comorbid ID, 4-7 years old, through child self-report. Using an abbreviated version of the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (LSDQ; Cassidy and Asher in Child Dev 63:250-365, 1992), the majority of children reported friendships, yet a considerable proportion also reported social difficul...

Abbreviated Path expressions are used as an information hiding tool in Adaptive Programming (AP), eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document processing, and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). In the context of AP, the classical semantics of wild cards as place holders for any symbol leads to modularity and ambiguity problems when these wild cards are iterated. We show that a slightly restricted ...

The Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld-Lemieux (abbreviated AAGL) key agreement protocol [1] is proposed to be used on low-cost platforms which constraint the use of computational resources. The core of the protocol is the concept of an Algebraic Eraser (abbreviated AE) which is claimed to be a suitable primitive for use within lightweight cryptography. The AE primitive is based on a new and ingenious idea...

This paper presents a new evolutionary method, namely, a Two Phase evolutionary algorithm for multiple sequence alignments. This method is composed of different types of evolutionary algorithms, that is, an evolutionary progressive multiple sequence alignment method (abbreviated to ET) and Sequence Alignment by Genetic Algorithm (abbreviated to SAGA). The former is employed to obtain efficientl...