ÐThis paper describes a new method to recover a drawing order of a handwritten script from a static 2D image. The script should be written in a single stroke and may include double-traced lines. After the script is scanned in and preprocessed, we apply our recovery method which consists of two phases. In the first phase, we globally analyze the graph constructed from the skeletal image and labe...

OBJECTIVE To pilot-test a brief written prescription recommending lifestyle changes delivered by general practitioners (GPs) to their patients. DESIGN The Active Nutrition Script (ANS) included five nutrition messages and personalised exercise advice for a healthy lifestyle and/or the prevention of weight gain. GPs were asked to administer 10 scripts over 4 weeks to 10 adult patients with a b...

The effects of word frequency (WF) and syllable frequency (SF) are well-established phenomena in domain such as spoken production in alphabetic languages. Chinese, as a non-alphabetic language, presents unique lexical and phonological properties in speech production. For example, the proximate unit of phonological encoding is syllable in Chinese but segments in Dutch, French or English. The pre...

A new system for precise measurements of the field inte-grals and multipole components of the APS magnetic insertion devices is described. A stretched coil is used to measure magnetic field characteristics. The hardware includes a number of servomotors to move (translate or rotate) the coil and a fast data acquisition board to measure the coil signal. A PC under Linux is used as a control works...

for Script-based Systems Trent Jaeger and Atul Prakash Software Systems Research Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 E-mails: [email protected] Abstract Powerful applications can be implemented using command scripts. A command script is a program written by one user, called a writer, and made avail...

This paper describes a module developed by the author for the initial teaching of VHDL. A ‘self-teach’ approach is adopted whereby students with a minimum of tutor support can progress from a basic knowledge of digital logic to modelling an ALU in six three hour sessions. The course script and its accompanying assessment manual are written in such a way as to be portable and easily updated. Eva...

Today biometric techniques are based either on passive (e.g. IrisScan, Face) or active methods (e.g. voice and handwriting). In our work we focus on evaluation of the latter. These methods, also described as behavioral Biometric, are characterized by a trait that is learnt and acquired over time. Several approaches for user authentication have been published, but today they have not yet been ev...

In this paper, we address the problem of converting Dialectal Arabic (DA) text that is written in the Latin script (called Arabizi) into Arabic script following the CODA convention for DA orthography. The presented system uses a finite state transducer trained at the character level to generate all possible transliterations for the input Arabizi words. We then filter the generated list using a ...

Research on Japanese reading has generally indicated that processing of the logographic script Kanji primarily involves whole-word lexical processing and follows a semantics-to-phonology route, while the two phonological scripts Hiragana and Katakana (collectively called Kana) are processed via a sub-lexical route, and more in a phonology-to-semantics manner. Therefore, switching between the tw...