In this paper we describe how the degrees of the irreducible characters of the affine subgroups of the classical groups under consideration can be found inductively. In [4] Gow obtained certain character degrees for all of the affine subgroups of the classical groups. We apply the method of Fischer to the above groups and, in addition to the character degrees given in [4], we obtain some ne...

This paper presents a Verilog model of an artificial neural network for Arabic character recognition. A neural network by nature is a non-linear system that presents some unusual challenges when realized in digital domain. A main feature of our proposed model is that it does not require hardware-intensive resources, such as dividers and multipliers. A character recognition accuracy of 80.3% was...

In this paper we propose a novel character representation for scene text recognition. In order to recognize each individual character, we first adopt a bag-of-words approach, in which the rotation-invariant circular Fourier-HOG features are densely extracted from an individual character and compressed into middle level features. Then we train a set of two-class linear Support Vector Machines in...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the capacity of alexithymia to predict a broad range of psychiatric symptoms relative to that of other personality dimensions, age, and gender. METHOD The Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Temperament and Character Inventory, and the SCL-90-R were administered to 254 psychiatric patients. Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed. RESULTS The difficu...

The paper studies the breathing patterns for four types of Chinese metrical poems, namely, fivecharacter quatrain, five-character octave, sevencharacter quatrain and seven-character octave. A breathing belt was tied to the chest and the respiratory signal was acquired by EMG. Respiratory parameters were defined regarding the dynamical properties of the signal, and were automatically extracted b...

The notion of a Persistent Phylogeny generalizes the well-known Perfect phylogeny model that has been thoroughly investigated and is used to explain a wide range of evolutionary phenomena. More precisely, while the Perfect Phylogeny model allows each character to be acquired once in the entire evolutionary history while character losses are not allowed, the Persistent Phylogeny model allows eac...

Historical Chinese character recognition is very important to larger scale historical document digitalization, but is a very challenging problem due to lack of labeled training samples. This paper proposes a novel nonlinear transfer learning method, namely Gaussian Process Style Transfer Mapping (GP-STM). The GP-STM extends traditional linear Style Transfer Mapping (STM) by using Gaussian proce...

BACKGROUND There is a surge of interest in subjective well-being (SWB), which concerns how individuals feel about their happiness. Life satisfaction tends to be influenced by individual psychological traits and external social factors. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between individual character and SWB. METHODS Data from 3522 university students were analyzed in this st...