The character sets used in China and Taiwan are both Chinese, but they are divided into simplified and traditional Chinese characters. There are large amount of information exchange between China and Taiwan through books and Internet. To provide readers a convenient reading environment, the character conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese is necessary. The conversion between simp...

the many honorifics bestowed on the articles in this historical series, it is doubtful that any have had applied the best—funny. The rhetorical zest and smiling outrage that Joseph Berkson brings to his puncturing of the quasi-religious precepts of traditional statistics in his classic article 1 recalls for me a public debate I witnessed in the 1980s between a highly respected statistician and ...

IN HER recent article on the history of smallpox, Lise Wilkinson recalls some observations on preventive transmission of cowpox to man made before Jenner.1 Among the names mentioned it is surprising not to find that of Jacques-Antoine Rabaut-Pommier (1744-1820), a French protestant pastor born in Nimes and living near Montpellier. Concerning Rabaut-Pommier, Beaulieu recalls (English translation...

Chinese characters are used both in Japanese and Chinese, which are called Kanji and Hanzi respectively. Chinese characters contain significant semantic information, a mapping table between Kanji and Hanzi can be very useful for many Japanese-Chinese bilingual applications, such as machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval. Because Kanji characters are originated from ancient ...

This paper presents a new approach to segment and recognize Printed Bangla Text using Characteristic functions and Hamming network. The main difficulties in printed Bangla text recognition are the separation of lines, words and individual characters. In this paper, a new algorithm has been proposed to detect and separate text lines, words and characters from printed Bangla text. The algorithm u...

There are almost no studies on the Cuentos surrealistas (1979) by José Antonio Muñoz Rojas, author best known for his poetic work in Spanish post-war period. His stories were mostly written 1930s, time of rise surrealism. The published them as a whole many years later. Due to its great visuality and humorous trait, recalls carefree jovial tone first avant-garde; however, he moves away from this...

The core concept of phylogenetic systematics is the use of derived or apomorphic characters to reconstruct common ancestry relationships and the grouping of taxa based on common ancestry. This concept, first formalized by Hennig (1950, 1966), has been slowly, and not so quietly, changing the nature of systematics. Why should we be interested in this approach? What about phylogenetic systematics...