We investigated children’s spelling in the alphasyllabic writing system of Kannada, a South Indian language. Kannada represents language at roughly the level of the syllable, but its symbols or ‘akshara’ can be segmented visually to reveal the consonant and vowel segments within. Having been taught akshara as whole, fourthand fifth-grade children were poor at constructing complex akshara from t...

We build an automatic phoneme recognition system based on Bayesian Multivariate Modeling which is a static scheme. Phoneme models were built by using stochastic pattern recognition and acoustic phonetic schemes to recognise phonemes. Since our native language is Kannada, a rich South Indian Language, we have used 15 Kannada phonemes to train and test these models. As Mel – Frequency Cepstral Co...

Warm, low salinity Pacific water weaves through the Indonesian Seas into the eastern boundary of the Indian Ocean. The Indonesian Throughflow Water (ITW) adds freshwater into the Indian Ocean as it spreads by the advection and diffusion within the Indian Ocean's South Equatorial Current (SEC). The low salinity throughflow trace, centered along 12øS, stretches across the Indian Ocean, separating...

This paper specifies an OCR system for printed Malayalam characters. Malayalam is the principal language of the South Indian state Kerala. It belongs to the family of Dravidian Language. The input to the system would be the scanned image of a page of text and the output is a machine editable file. Malayalam Character recognition is a complex task because of the presence of two scripts; old scri...

BACKGROUND Urinary incontinence is a significant health problem with potentially serious physical, psychological and social consequences. The true prevalence is difficult to ascertain, especially in hard to reach groups such as ethnic minority populations and research in this area is lacking. The UK has an increasingly diverse population, and ascertaining the needs for incontinence care among e...

Community mortality surveillance for 1984-1988 was conducted by researchers of the Strong Heart Study, which examined the incidence, prevalence, and risk factors of cardiovascular disease in three American Indian populations, aged 45-74 years, in Arizona, Oklahoma, and South/North Dakota. All-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates were determined through the use of death certificate d...

A high-resolution, off-line, ocean general circulation model, incorporating a realistic parameterisation of mixed layer convection is used to diagnose pathways and timescales of Southern Hemisphere Intermediate, Mode and thermocline water ventilation. Simulated and observed CFC-11 are in reasonably good agreement, demonstrating the model’s skill in representing realistic ventilation. Regional p...

It was Zuidema from Indonesia who first reported a series of 45 patients with pancreatic calcification with diabetes mellitus who were poor and consumed a proteinand calorie-deficient diet, and also had striking clinical features of malnutrition like emaciation, parotidomegaly, hair and skin changes not unlike that of Kwashiorkor.1 This was followed by a series of reports of similar patients fr...