... line that appears in multiple frames Each appearance in a particular frame is called atext instance 2.4.1 Localization-based Tracking As aforementioned, this approach does not really track text ... ofa single character have almost uniform intensity values or colors Characters of the same textline are aligned on a straight line Characters of the same textline have similar widths and ... character level (Neumann & Matas 2010; Neumann & Matas 2011; Neumann & Matas 2012) used Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) (Matas et al 2002) to extract character candidates The main idea...
... indication of discourse structure In the museum domain, each object description was treated as a separate segment; in the pharmaceutical domain, each subsection ofa leaflet was treated as a separate ... Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases Ph.D thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst M Kameyama 1985 Zero Anaphora: The case of Japanese Ph.D thesis, Stanford University M Kameyama ... to automatically compute utterances according to the particular configuration of parameters chosen, and then to compute the CFs and the CB (if any) of each utterance on the basis of the anaphoric...
... phytochemical works have been recorded for the C longepetiolatum Costerm apud Phamh found in Vietnam As a part of the research on the essential oils of Medicinal and Aromatic plants of the Vietnam flora, ... Preparation Flora of China Vol (Berberidaceae through Capparaceae) Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St Louis [3] Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia, Medical Publishing House, Hanoi, ... G.W .A Milne, EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Data Base, U.S Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1978, 1980, 1983 [5] E Stenhagen, A Abrahamsson, F.W McLafferty, Registry of Mass Spectral Data,...
... 21 participants with a range of characteristics including age (median age 63 (range 36–79)), marital status, place of residence and gynecological diagnosis (Table 1) All characteristics in Table ... knowledgeable person On the other hand it seemed all could take advantage of the feeling of trust in a healthcare professional in the early part ofa cancer trajectory If a participant did not have ... general practitioner later (At discharge) Page of 11 Expected and experienced care from calm health professionals were factors that together meant that additional help from the NN was declined...
... many of the great men of his time Among those friends was Lord Chatham It was twenty years after Allen's death that Palmer's Mail Coach system was started Its advantage soon made itself apparent, ... Bristol was one of the places to which these special posts were arranged In the Calendar of State Papers, under the year 166 0, there is a complaint against one "Teig," an anabaptist Postmaster of Bristol, ... Comittee appointed by the Councill of State for the Management of the Poste affaire Whereas John Teage who hath formerly beene actually in Armes for ye Parliamt and since that being an Inhabitant of...
... dramatically altered the effect of phosphate and activation was seen only at low concentrations with a maximal 1.7-fold activation at mm phosphate At 121 Temperature effects on hibernator PFK allostery ... probably due to temperature alone Sensitivity to adenylates (ATP inhibition, AMP and ADP activation) was reduced when the enzyme was assayed at °C, a temperature characteristic of hibernation, as ... 37 °C was 7.2 The concentration of Mg.ATP was held at 0.5 mM All other assay conditions are detailed in the Materials and methods Data are means ± SEM, n ¼ separate determinations Temperature...
... explain the higher antibacterial activity on Gram-negative bacteria for parabutoporin compared to opistoporin Also with magainin analogs, an increase in antibacterial activity against Gram-negative ... Gramnegative and Gram-positive bacteria and their activity was compared with the activity of melittin and mastoparan (Table 1) Parabutoporin inhibits the growth of all Gram-negative bacteria ... consisting of amino acids 7–22 of parabutoporin (an a- helical part having the four amino acids LAKK identical to mastoparan) and of the first 28 amino acids of the opistoporins were synthesized and were...
... FIFTH WAVE OF DATA After collecting an additional year of data, we will examine the data with a different analytical approach—structural equation modeling The advantage of this approach is that it ... (transfer of learned academic strategies), such as reading, appear to transfer A case study of an excellent Spanish–English bilingual reader (Jiménez et al., 1995) shows the use of similar strategies ... following: a phonology test and a phonemic segmentation task (phonological awareness); a letter, word, and pseudoword naming task (word reading); and tests of cognate awareness and morphological awareness...
... proposed a text- reuse model for ancient literary texts, with novel features that account for source alternation patterns These features were validated on the Lukan Passion Narrative, an instance oftext ... definitive answers, it can serve as a supplement to linguistic and literary-critical approaches to text- reuse analysis, and can be especially helpful when dealing with a large amount of candidate source ... both a simplification of and an extension to the one advocated in (Barzilay and Elhadad, 2003) On the one hand, we perform no paragraph clustering or mapping before sentence alignment Ancient texts...
... nodes and labelled arcs The names of the node are called "semantic symbols" and are associated with Japanese and English dictionary entries The labelled arcs are used in two ways: a) Binary arcs either ... employ Winograd's terminology for functional gran~nar (Winograd, 1983) In general, case schemata will be mapped into CLAUSE-RS and concept schemata are mapped into NP-R~ A CLAUSE-RS has a features ... condition is that there is no Agent and the Object will be realized as a clause Its realization schema is an idiomatic phrase named *Es-Part*: (a WANT with (Object (an ACHIEVE with (Agent [SPF2~KER])...
... The latter has the additional attributes of being available anywhere, at anytime and on any device If it was only a simple as a mouse-trap The complication is that for most customers they already ... satisfaction A proven change agent, capable of orchestrating transformative business strategy Champions innovation with a focus on developing flexible, scalable solutions for customer and organisational ... experience across government, communications and media, and finance industries World class financial, relationship and commercial management of IT sourcing relationships Respected leader in highly-matrixed...
... Incremental rates of default (as of all patients): Approximately 1% rate of treatment interruption for each 2-week period after the initial 2–3 weeks of hospitalization Cumulative rates of default (as ... of year; default defined as failure to attend treatment appointments Extraction of data from the TB control program database over a 5-year period; default reported as failure to complete treatment ... performance of the TB program in a mission hospital in Sialkot, Pakistan (Uplekar et al 1998; Liefooghe et al 1999) All of the studies evaluated adult TB patients and most included a broad range of...
... expense of the armament Artaphernes placed at his disposal a fleet of 200 ships under the command of Megabates, a Persian of high rank; but Aristagoras having affronted the Persian admiral, the latter ... spring of B.C 490 a large army and fleet were assembled in Cilicia, and the command was given to Datis, a Median, and Artaphernes, son of the satrap of Sardis of that name Warned by the recent disaster ... 495), when several Grecian cities had already been taken by the Persians, Artaphernes laid siege to Miletus by sea and by land A naval engagement took place at Lade a small island off Miletus, which...
... well-known action of Hcys as a pro-atherogenic and cardiovascular risk factor, the fact that diamide treatment (and probably other events that perturbate the thiol ⁄ disulfide status of plasma) may influence ... concentrations of total cysteine in both plasma (black bars) and erythrocytes (gray bars) to the relative hematocrit value Values are expressed as thiol equivalents Data are the means ± SD of four experiments ... intravenously) and blood withdrawal Blood was withdrawn 15 after the end of diamide infusion and maintained at 37 °C Time zero indicates the time of withdrawal Data are the means ± SD of three experiments...
... framework, QARLA, that addresses such issues Given a set of manual summaries and another set of baseline summaries per task, together with a set of similarity metrics, QARLA provides quantitative measures ... similarity metrics to compare summaries An evaluation framework should include, at least: • A measure QM,X (a) ∈ [0, 1] that estimates the quality of an automatic summary a, using the similarity ... (constant) metric x should have KM ,A (x) = 3.1 QARLA evaluation framework QUEEN: Estimation of the quality of an automatic summary We are now looking for a function QM,x (a) that estimates the quality...
... features from the grammar, this level must contain a considerable amount of knowledge [in the AI sense) relating grammatical features to extra-lingulstic factors ADVANTAGES The backward chaining ... a large systemic grammar The grammar has been collected froma variety of sources [Mann/Halliday) [Kress, 1976J [Halliday & Hasan, 1976) [Winograd, 1983J, a n d contains about six hundred grammatical ... grammatical features Fragments of grammar usually appear in the linguistic literature as 'system networks' These are entered as LISP data structures, and translated by a three page LISP program...
... fears to it Semantic sub-classification of adjectives 4.2.2.1 Stative and dynamic adjectives Adjectives are characteristically stative, but many can be seen as dynamic Stative adjectives are often ... - al (also -ial, - ical) ‚ pertaining to ‛ Musical, national, classical, natural, granparental, 34 criminal, editorial, historial - ly ‚having the character of , Cowardly, manly, hardly, expressing ... gain that aim, besides a good knowledge of grammar, learners need to have a plentiful source of vocabulary However, by what way you learn by heart all the English words is always a question raised...
... evaluations of microfinance programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda and Zimbabwe, and include both rural and urban initiatives ... studies from 14 sub-Saharan African countries, namely Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe One ... evaluations of programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda and Zimbabwe Ten studies were in rural settings, two in urban settings,...
... produce plasmids pSIB1-Cd and pSIB1 -a3 +Cd, respectively The sequences of the 5¢ PCR primers were 5¢-AGAGAGAA TTCATATGTCAGATTTGTTCAG-3¢ for N-domain+, 5¢CTGAAAACGCTAAGCATATGGGTATTACGA-3¢ for C-domain–, ... [14] from psychrophilic bacteria consist ofa heat labile domain and a heat stable domain Bentahir et al [13] have proposed that a heat labile domain provides a sufficient flexibility around the active ... unfolding has been observed for cold-adapted a- amylase and family xylanase from an Antarctic bacterium [20,21] The apparent optimal temperatures of these proteins for enzymatic activities are much...
... function to a serial sort It accepts as arguments a parallel data field and a parallel comparison predicate, and it sorts among the selected processors so that the data in each successive (by address) ... The key point is that a scan algorithm can take advantage of the associative law and perform this task in logarithmic time Thus, 16 applications of F are sufficient to scan F across 64,000 processors ... Dictionary Algorithm • F(r (a, b), c) • F(F(F (a, b), c), d) There is a faster and more elegant approach to building a dictionary than the hashing scheme This other approach has the additional advantage...