access for the visually impaired

... detection The first step of the automatic text recognition algorithm is the detection and the localization of the text regions present in the image The mainstream of text regions is characterized by the ... analyze the distance between the center of mass of all different surfaces This allows to easily determining the surfaces of the target; the others are removed Finally, we compute the angle between the ... integrate any other specific tools for blind or visually impaired users In terms of performance, the K-NFB Reader has a high level of accuracy with basic types of document It performs well with...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... minute, and if all the characters in the texts are shown on the TV screen, there are too many of them to be understood well (Komine et al 1996) Therefore we need to summarise the news texts to ... of the model We used the speech of four people for the evaluation The evaluation results are shown in Table They are the accuracy (detection rate) and false alarm rate for the case that each keyword ... for the handicapped people Project Schedule The project has two stages: the first years and the rest years We research on the above issues and build a prototype system in the first stage The...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... stimulus They can quickly articulate whether the piece of music is in a familiar style, and whether it is a style they like If they are familiar with the music, they might be able to identify the ... equipment to Sri Lanka for user studies; Chamithri Vidyarathne for assistance in drawing 3D models of the Haptic Chair; and Eshani Motha for performing for the videos used in some of the user studies ... person, the system described here has the potential to be a valuable aid for speech therapy A user study is being carried out to explore the effectiveness of the Haptic Chair for speech therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:37

... printer and then read the printout by touch She/he can then continue with the reading The process of detecting the presence of graphics, converting them into tactile images, and then printing them out ... Again, the motivation is to allow separate treatment of the regions of the images, rather than leaving the simplification entirely at the mercy of a plain edge detector, for example In the following, ... components in a block in the HSV color space The other three represent square root of energy in the high-frequency bands of the wavelet transforms [19, 41], the square root of the second-order moment...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... confidence of their peers as trusted sources of information), these resources then gathered at the state level for centralization, and fed into a national resource such as the Refugee Health Information ... ask for what they want and present what they can bring to the table Another issue is that for various reasons some people and organizations don’t want to share; they want to hoard information for ... equal access to biomedical information and improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.” Many if not most medical libraries in the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... clause 8.5(b) of the FAD The result is that the Access Provider can backbill the Access Seeker for months or more, but though the Access Seeker must pay the Access Provider, the Access Seeker cannot ... financial repercussions for Access Seekers The Access Seekers therefore propose the following amendment: 8.5 The Access Provider shall be entitled to invoice the Access Seeker for previously uninvoiced ... of the appeal to the Tribunal16 Therefore, as regards promoting the LTIE, the Tribunal was of the view that the following was the correct order of precedence: grant the exemptions subject to the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... assurance their children will be enrolled in the program for which they are eligible Other best practices identified by the Maximizing Enrollment for Kids program include joint applications for Medicaid ... an appointment at the same clinic for the same medical condition.9 Across the state, access to care for children varies widely Fewer than 5% of children in metro Denver (3.8%), the Eastern Plains ... CHP+ if there are no changes and only need to update information that has changed since the last review Some states take the renewal process even further by eliminating much of the need for families’...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... May 2010 Introduction This document relaxes the IANA rules for the Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA) [RFC5191] Rules for the following protocol fields, all defined ... Values The rationale for this update is that there can be situations in which it makes sense to grant an allocation under special circumstances At the time of this writing, the IETF is in the process ... only [RFC5191] defined the range of values from - The same Message Type is used for both the request and the answer messages, except for type The Request bit distinguishes requests from answers...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... confined to bed Therefore, the results of our study on QOL decline may even be an underestimation of the actual QOL decline in visually impaired older patients Furthermore, in the field of ophthalmology ... samples t-tests Health-related QOL Before analyzing the prediction models, we started with some general analyses on the EQ-5D To put the EQ-5D scores from the visually impaired older population into ... the baseline characteristics of the patients Of the visually impaired population, in more than 50% the primary cause of vision loss was AMD Three patients (9.1%) who reported to suffer from the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... expressed the evolution of the mean of the messages when they are assumed Gaussian, we make use of the function J(μ) (12) in order to give the evolution of the mutual information through the state ... information evolution at the state-check node Comparison of the approximation methods with the exact mutual information at the state-check node The solid lines represent the GA approximation, the ... Using the EXIT charts for the LDPC codes [12, 15] and for the state-check node under the two considered approximations (14), (20), we are now able to give the evolution of the mutual information...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... weigh these risks, as well as those of alternative devices, such as CVCs, when choosing the best access for their patients Consideration must also be given to the “appropriate” time in the course ... not the primary point of these trials, the methods used for identifying BSIs and determining if a PICC was to blame were robust The authors found an incidence of PRBSI of 2.1 per 1000 catheter-days ... conventional CVCs Rates of CVC-related BSI for these subjects were not reported and instead the authors provide reported rates from the literature to put the observed PR-BSI rates in perspective...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... variability due to the very limited size of the selection nucleus, the lack of management of the genetic variability and the intensity of the selection processes [8] The CDL breed had the lowest initial ... coding for the prion protein in exon [6] The position of PrP is supposed to be at cM from marker BMS1669, according to [27] The other 24 markers are on other chromosomes and were therefore considered ... even more so for the McM152 marker, which on average for neutral markers and individually for the PrP coding gene and flanking markers The relative positions from the PrP coding gene of the flanking...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... release the information for the requester if the requester cannot give the authorities the further details of the information It is meant that the requester should provide the authority with the ... part of the right of freedom of information, the right of access to public information uses the term ‘information’ as the object of the access In fact, however, there are two main ideas on the terminology ... right, the benefits of the right to the State and individuals, and the principles of access to public information law The principles of legislating for the right will serve as criteria for the evaluation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/08/2014, 12:34

... servicing the traffic demands, and at the same time fulfill the GoS constraints of the individual radio systems Finally, we conclude the thesis with the presentation of the thesis contributions and the ... SAC policy to further enhance the service capacity of the multi-radio network The Markov chain models for the RES and RD SAC policies are also presented The performances of the RES and RD policies ... impact of the PR activities on the SR transmission opportunity time, as well as the duration of the ‘black spaces’ We present the derivation of the theoretical p.d.f of the opportunity time for a...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:09

... within the cell and between cells It is used for transmitting the forward access channel (FACH) for access grant and the paging channel (PCH) for paging, both of which carry control information Information ... the chip rate increased For a chip rate of 0.96 Mcps, the BER performance was close to the computer simulated BER performance with L=1 The performance with 7.68 Mcps spreading became almost the ... reason for the need for 3G is the growing necessity to be able to communicate and access information “Anywhere – Anyplace” International Mobile Telecommunications in the year 2000 (IMT-2000) is the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2012, 14:24

... to the dualist view The sciences of the mind have delivered another, or rather a series of others The cognitive sciences – the umbrella term for the disciplines devoted to the study of mental ... neglected, field, they were not able to follow the instruction to grab it Rather than reach behind them for the object, they reached toward the mirror When asked where the object was, they replied ... Hence, too, the need for this book This book is not the very first to reflect upon the ethical issues raised by the neurosciences and by the technologies for intervening in the mind they offer us,...

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