In this paper, we discuss how the focus in document analysis, generally speaking, and in graphics recognition more specifically, has moved from re-engineering problems to indexing and information retrieval. After a review of ongoing work on these topics, we propose some challenges for the years to come.

In Fourier analysis, since Fourier coefficients are computable and applicable, people have established many nice results by assuming monotonicity of the coefficients. Generally speaking, it became an important topic how to generalize monotonicity. In many studies the generalization follows by this way (see, for example, [8] for definitions): (coefficients) nonincreasing ⇒ quasimonotone ⇒ regula...

The (critical) development of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) in the last two decades raised new hopes for disabled patients. In healthy persons, BCIs offer promising scopes for application in the field of entertainment or video gaming. Those commercial potential perspectives for applications in the digital industry explain a renewed interest in a subject until now highly confidential. General...

this study set out to investigate the distribution of the syntactic properties associatedwith the prodrop parameter by persian-speaking l2 learners of english in an attemptto examine the (un)attainability of native-like knowledge and (in)accessibility of ugin adult sla. to do so, 92 participants were assigned into different levels of l2knowledge based on their performances on the oxford placeme...

one of the major sources of psychology in the field of teaching english as foreign language in iranian universities is a book named the psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition written by zoltan dornyei. the book was first published in 2005 and was later revised in 2015 and published by routledge. this study thus aims to analyze this book critica...

this article answers an old controversial question which asks whether poetry is better or prose. this question has been raised since such subjects as grammar, oratory, rhetoric, etc. appeared. no definite resolution has yet been reached. generally speaking authors, critics, and thinkers have divided among themselves into two groups. the first group defends verse or poetry. the second group defe...