On Naozane Kumagai's Vow Written in his own Hand

Carl Djerassi: in his own words.

In honor of the 90th birthday of Professor Carl Djerassi, J. I. Seeman has assembled a collection of poignant quotes and excerpts from Djerassi's writings which embody his remarkable life experiences, his philosophies of life, and his unique personality.

Did Menzel Paint His Own Babinski Sign?

Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), one of the greatest German realistic painters of the nineteenth Century (1), painted his right foot from normal perspective with the great toe extended (Figure 1B). The other toes seem to be relaxed. There are no suggestions of foot deformity like pes cavus. Menzel finished that painting, oil on wood panel, in 1876 (1). He gave no official explanation, why he had ...

Carmine Melino: a Universe by his own.

Bangla Hand Written Character Recognition

This paper discusses the different methods for optical character recognition (OCR), which has been an important field to research from a few decades due its huge necessity to convert paper documents or books in computer readable format. Though Bangla (widely used as Bengali) is one of the top uses language among the other languages, but there is no reliable character recognizer for this. Our wo...

Hand Written Character Recognition System

Hand written character recognition is one of the focused areas of research in the field of Artificial intelligence. An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is an information processing paradigm that is inspired by the way biological nervous systems, such as the brain, process information. The key element of this paradigm is the novel structure of the information processing system. It is composed of ...