Standard signature verification (SV) systems are writer-dependent (WD), where a specific classifier is designed for each individual. It is inconvenient to ask a user to provide enough number of signature samples to design his WD classifier. In practice, very few samples are collected and inaccurate classifiers maybe produced. To overcome this, writer-independent (WI) systems are introduced. A g...

Writer-adaptation is the process of converting a writer-independent handwriting recognition system, which models the characteristics of a large group of writers, into a writer-dependent system, which is tuned for a particular writer. Adaptation has the potential of increasing recognition accuracies, provided adequate models can be constructed for a particular writer. The limited amount of data ...

30 months mental age, and the criterion used was a composite of the Otis Higher Self Administering Test of Mental Ability, the Terman Group Test of Mental Ability, and Army Alpha Form 9. In spite of these facts, the writer has no desire to recommend this technique too heartily?for several reasons. In the first place, the particular interview used in the original investigation cannot very well b...

Existing scholarship on the debates over expertise in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has demonstrated the importance of popular writings on the sciences to definitions of scientific authority. Yet while men of science might position themselves in opposition to the stereotype of the merely popular writer, the self-identity of the popular writer remained ambiguous. This essay examines the careers...

In the existing approach to maintenance and repair decision making for infrastructure facilities, policy evaluation and policy selection are performed under the assumption that a perfect facility deterioration model is available. The writer formulates the problem of developing maintenance and repair policies as a reinforcement learning problem in order to address this limitation. The writer exp...

I find that after only a fair amount of typing on my computer keyboard, I have achy wrists ? it's really getting quite uncomfortable. I am thirty-eight years old, a full-time graduate student, and a full-time professional writer (prose as well as scripts), so I need to do a lot of typing! I am worried about carpal tunnel syndrome (although I don't think that's what I have, at least not yet ? th...

Background: The publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals is a fairly complex and stepwise process that involves responding to referees’ comments. Little guidance is available in the biomedical literature on how to deal with such comments. Objective: The objective of this article is to provide guidance to notice writers on dealing with peer review comments in a way that maxim...

support of this he instances the wildly beating heart, pallid face, motor unrest, and dilated pupils of a man to whom a revolver is shown, and concludes that the emotion is the cognition of the visceral changes. Yet it is not difficult to imagine conditions under which all these phenomena might be artificially produced, and yet not, we feel sure produced fear; and micturition and defecation mig...