Chapter 9 of the Unicode standard [1] describes the representational model for encoding Indic scripts. Devanagari is described in Section 9.1; the principles of Indic scripts are covered in some detail in the introduction to Devanagari. The descriptions of the remaining Indic scripts were abbreviated highlighting any di erences from Devanagari where appropriate. Some of the problems in this des...

Today’s JavaScript applications are composed of scripts from different origins that are loaded at run time. As not all of these origins are equally trusted, the execution of these scripts should be isolated from one another. However, some scripts must access the application state and some may be allowed to change it, while preserving the confidentiality and integrity constraints of the applicat...

Black men in the USA experience disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, particularly in the Southeastern part of the country. We conducted 90 qualitative in-depth interviews with Black men living in the state of Georgia and analysed the transcripts using Sexual Script Theory to: (1) characterise the sources and content of sexual scripts that Black men were exposed to during their childh...

Human social activities follow loosely defined scripts in which individuals assume roles. Social conventions establish stereotypical skeletons for such scripts, with details and variations determined by the circumstances and personalities of the individuals who play the roles. Encoding social scripts in a formal representation would seem to hold the promise of building systems that provide serv...

In this paper, we propose a model of information retrieval (IR) system design based on the ideas of: a multi-dimensional space of information-seeking strategies; dialogue structures for information-seeking; cases of specific information-seeking dialogues; and, scripts as distinguished prototypical cases. These concepts are integrated within a framework of IR as interaction.