With extensive applications in many domains, e.g., in postal address recognition, bank cheque recognition etc, Handwritten Chinese Address Recognition (HCAR) has attracted much interest recently. However, due to the large number in Chinese characters categories, irregular distortion and touching in handwriting, and high variations in writing styles, this task presents a big challenge in the com...

Fear of missing out (FOMO) is the experience, when on social media, of noting that other people are at a party, concert, or film when you aren’t. They are having a better time than you; either you made the wrong choice or you weren’t offered it. You missed out and your Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook feedback is not as beautiful—and you missed out. That may not be important in the grand scheme ...

Research into design rationale in the past has focused on argumentation-based design deliberations. These approaches cannot be used to support change impact analysis effectively because the dependency between design elements and decisions are not well represented and cannot be quantified. Without such knowledge, designers and architects cannot easily assess how changing requirements and design ...

News Making health care affordable in China China is taking steps towards its goal of providing every single person in the country with access to modern health-care services, in part through health financing schemes. Jane Parry and Cui Weiyuan report. When Shi Liuchang, a worker at a state-owned electricity plant in Pingdingshan, Henan province, China, was diagnosed with hepatitis B in 1982, hi...

The key objective driving reform in payments clearing and settlement in Australia is enhancement of the safety and integrity of the system. It is also important to improve the efficiency with which payments instructions are handled and funds made available, and to introduce greater competitive equity among service providers. At one level, these key objectives are all likely to lead to less pape...

Migração celular é um ingrediente importante no desenvolvimento de seres multicelulares e em processos como resposta imunológica ou metástases câncer. Apresentamos uma revisão sobre modelagem migração célula isolada substratos planos. Reanálise dados experimentais mostraram comportamento que se desvia do modelo canônico, o Langevin para partícula com movimento Browniano. A proposição semiempíri...