Recently, texture-based features have been used for digitized historical document image segmentation. It has been proven that these methods work effectively with no a priori knowledge. Moreover, it has been shown that they are robust when they are applied on degraded documents under different noise levels and kinds. In this paper an approach of evaluating CIFED 2014, pp. 41–56, Nancy, 18-21 mar...

a look at contemporary persian poetry, currents in persian poetry in 20th century this book is a historical survey of literature though the writer has tried to distance himself from ancient approaches and to apply a modern look of analysis, critique and stylistics. in the first chapter the methodology is discussed followed by the second chapter which talks of text and metatext and the relations...

The article deals with the sacred groves of the Balts in Lithuania and presents the linguistic background, the historical documents from the 12th– 18th century, the key folklore motifs of the topic, as well as selected examples of groves. The article also discusses possible relationships between pre-Christian religious traditions connected with the sacred groves and the ones which have survived...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

Document binarization is an active research area for many years. The choice of the most appropriate binarization algorithm for each case proved to be a very difficult procedure itself. In this paper, we propose a new technique for the validation of document binarization algorithms. Our method is simple in its implementation and can be performed on any binarization algorithm since it doesn’t req...

An enduring problem in electoral systems is that of "disproportionality," i.e., the mismatch between a party's percentage of the popular vote and its percentage of legislative seats. Such disproportionality is quite common and extreme cases are easy to find in the real word. To give just one example, the Liberal Party in Britain polled 13.8% of the national vote in 1979 but was rewarded with on...

nadjaf city is located in the southern part of iraq that has warm and mid-humid climate. the temperature usually rises up to 60 centigrade in hot months. it has a significant effect on the local inhabitant's lifestyle that is appeared on the house designing. it is necessary to recognize socio-physical history of najdaf ancient context in order that the life story of historical houses in na...