An Historic Indian Agency

THE INDIAN LUNACY ACT, 1912: The Historic Background

This historic city has already extended its cultured hospitality twice to the members of the Society in 1960 and 1977. Now, once again after a decade, we are indebted to our hosts of Calcutta for their spontaneous generosity. It is needless to point out the rich heritage and culture which Bengal has contributed to our national life. The tunes of Vande Matharam and Jana Gana Mana flowed from her...

An historic meeting.

Ethical Challenges in Accounting: an Indian Case

Accountant working in the private or public sector companies must remain impartial and loyal to ethical guidelines when reviewing a company or individuals financial records for reporting purposes. People are expecting a lot from the professional community and the quality of the complex services provided by the accounting profession have confidence. Of The information provided by accountants sho...

An Interoperable Portal for the Historic Environment

Research into the Historic Environment is particularly concerned with the search for information resources using spatial and chronological attributes. A recent pilot project between the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) and the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) at the University of York has successfully developed a Portal that provides Z39.50 enabled searching of a...

An OCR Concept for Historic Prints

We present a new concept for the recognition of single characters, the core component of every OCR-System. The recognition is organized as pattern matching with on-the-fly generated patterns corresponding to the glyphs of a given computer font. Thereby, the set of currently considered fonts can be chosen and exchanged arbitrarily which allows a flexible adaption of the software to each specific...