In this paper we give a new approach to the concepts of glyph and character, applied to the study of the Unicode encoding. After a thorough discussion of these two concepts, we describe the other fundamental ingredients of the encoding: privileged glyphs, character descriptions, combining characters, and properties. In each case we try to show the importance of the given notion and at the same ...

OBJECTIVES This article examines the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada, the characteristics of people most likely to live in households lacking sufficient funds for food, and several related health problems. DATA SOURCE The data are from the cross-sectional household component of the 1998/99 National Population Health Survey and the Food Insecurity Supplement to that survey. ANALYTICA...

PURPOSE To develop a portable computerised communication aid for aphasic people to support communication in everyday life. METHOD A multidisciplinary team of aphasiologists, augmentative and alternative communication specialists, speech and language therapists and technicians developed a portable, modular system, PCAD (portable communication assistant for people with dysphasia), running on a ...

Losses from the proton and antiproton beams of the Fermilab Tevatron have been shown to produce a halo which contribute to backgrounds to physics signals in the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). To provide a measure of the beam halo and losses, we have installed arrays of scintillation counters on both sides of the CDF detector. We describe here the physical configuration of these counters, ...

Young people aged five to 17 with covid-19 are less likely report fever, persistent cough, or appetite loss than adults, according a UK study of more million people. The latest findings from the ongoing React-1 study, which involves swab testing 150?000 randomly selected in England each month, found that symptoms varied age. Researchers examined tests and questionnaires between June 2020 Janua...