How to spell the Greek alphabet letters.

Does your (genetic) alphabet soup spell "runner"?

LOW AEROBIC CAPACITY [i.e., low maximum oxygen consumption (V̇O2max)] has been recognized as a significant predictor of disease (e.g., cardiovascular disease) risk, as well as mortality, for more than two decades (3). This is one of the important relationships supporting the impetus for exercise training as medicine, a prominent healthcare initiative co-sponsored by the American College of Sport...

Greek Alphabet Recognition Technique for Biomedical Documents

Most current commercial optical character recognition (OCR) systems can accurately recognize the text in documents written in a single language. However, when dealing with Greek characters embedded in predominantly English text, these systems do not perform well, and most OCR systems do not recognize the characters as belonging to the Greek alphabet. As a result, the degree of manual review req...

Greek letters in random staircase tableaux

In this paper we study a relatively new combinatorial object called staircase tableaux. Staircase tableaux were introduced by Corteel and Williams in the connection with Asymmetric Exclusion Process and has since found interesting connections with Askey–Wilson polynomials. We develop a probabilistic approach that allows us to analyze several parameters of a randomly chosen staircase tableau of ...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Linking the shapes of alphabet letters to their sounds: the case of Hebrew.

Learning the sounds of letters is an important part of learning a writing system. Most previous studies of this process have examined English, focusing on variations in the phonetic iconicity of letter names as a reason why some letter sounds (such as that of b, where the sound is at the beginning of the letter's name) are easier to learn than others (such as that of w, where the sound is not i...