This report describes recent advances in the area of the recognition of on-line handwritten mathematical notation. We describe architectures, symbol classification methods, and techniques for the structural analysis of mathematical expressions. We also survey applications specialized for mathematical notation.

This article systematically overviews the grain size effect on deformation twinning and detwinning in face-centered cubic (fcc) metals. With decreasing grain size, coarse-grained fcc metals become more difficult to deform by twinning, whereas nanocrystalline (nc) fcc metals first become easier to deform by twinning and then become more difficult, exhibiting an optimum grain size for twinning. T...

The kinematic sensitivity is a unit-consistent measure that has been recently proposed as a mechanism performance index to compare robot architectures. This paper presents a robust geometric approach for computing this index for the case of planar parallel mechanisms. The physical meaning of the kinematic sensitivity is investigated through different combinations of the Euclidean and infinity n...

The objective of this study was to investigate field trends in agronomic characters of soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) performance trials. Field experiments were arranged as lattice designs, and for each plot within an experiment, an environmental covariate representing the spatial trend was calculated using neighbour analysis. Correlations between environmental covariates of different charact...

PhD thesis in Information and Communication Technologies and their Management. The author was examined in June 2009 in Barcelona by the following committee: Paolo Rosso (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia), Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Research), Juan José Rodŕıguez (Univ. de Burgos), Jordi Turmo (Univ. Politécnica de Catalunya) and Ester Bernadó (La Salle Univ. Ramon Lull). The grade obtained was Summa...

Fluid dynamics applications require a good understanding of the underlying physical phenomena. Therefore, effective procedures are necessary for analyzing and visualizing the various physical fields. Beside interactive and perceptually efficient techniques for visualizing flow fields directly, there is strong demand for methods that uncover hidden flow structures. Some recently developed featur...

OBJECTIVES There is often substantial uncertainty about the impacts of health system and policy interventions. Despite that, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are uncommon in this field, partly because experiments can be difficult to carry out. An alternative method for impact evaluation is the interrupted time-series (ITS) design. Little is known, however, about how results from the two meth...

In order to examine the detailed attachment structure held by fans of a talking toy character (Primopuel), the contents of fan letters sent to a toy company were analyzed. Using our content classification system (Matsumoto et al, 2003, 2004), 51 fan letters were analyzed in terms of attachment. Based on the results of factor analysis, we argue that attachment is one of the factors that (a) evok...

Real quantities can undergo such a wide variety of dynamics that the mean is often a meaningless reference point for measuring variability. Despite their widespread application, techniques like the Coefficient of Variation are not truly proportional and exhibit pathological properties. The non-parametric measure Proportional Variability (PV) [1] resolves these issues and provides a robust way t...

Many authors have considered the design of complete exchange algorithms for a variety of multicomputer models, including hypercubes, multidimensional meshes and tori with different port and message switching models. Frequently, algorithms for a given multicomputer architecture cannot be used (or are not efficient) for a different architecture. This paper presents a method which allows the syste...