This paper describes a system being developed to recognize date information handwritten on Canadian bank cheques. A segmentation based strategy is adopted in this system. In order to achieve high performances in terms of efficiency and reliability, a knowledge-based module is proposed for the date segmentation and a cursive month word recognition module is implemented based on a combination of ...

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In his recent speech to the Conservative Party conference the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, used statistics enthusiastically. I counted at least 27 times that he mentioned numerical data. And he made several more assertions about numbers, such as, “Safer care doesn’t cost more; it costs less.” Not bad for a speech of 23 minutes. He used statistics to take credit on behalf of his government for...

Handwriting recognition has been an active and challenging area of research. Handwriting recognition system plays a very important role in today's world. Handwriting recognition is very popular and computationally expensive work. At present time it is very difficult to find correct meaning of handwritten documents. There are many areas where we need to recognize the words, alphabets and di...

Research into design rationale in the past has focused on argumentation-based design deliberations. These approaches cannot be used to support change impact analysis effectively because the dependency between design elements and decisions are not well represented and cannot be quantified. Without such knowledge, designers and architects cannot easily assess how changing requirements and design ...

The level of unclaimed dividend in Nigeria has been a source concern to the capital market regulators Nigeria. Hence, this study is designed examine effect institutional features on This framed firmly rational choice theory. ex-post facto research design was used and secondary data collected over ten-year period which spanned from 2010 2019. multiple regression model analyze shareholders’ parti...

Advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) are perceived by companies to be an important element in surpassing competitiveness. However, excelling in today’s market is not as simple as the acquisition of new technologies alone. To achieve the desired benefits, the structure and infrastructure of organizations must match to ensure that the implementation of technologies lead to the expected bene...