Different historical approaches to science and medicine may be related to the author's primary training. Those whose first training has been in science have tended to publish biographies of distinguished scientists, histories of various specialities or well-known institutions: they have edited original texts and studied the priorities or significance of important discoveries. With some exceptio...

Throughout the eastern United States, plant species distributions and community patterns have developed in response to heterogeneous environmental conditions and a wide range of historical factors, including complex histories of natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Despite increased recognition of the importance of disturbance in determining forest composition and structure, few studies have ...

This major international history project succeeded because of the goodwill, commitment, and collaborative endeavor of a team of researchers drawn not only from different countries but also from different disciplines. Its immediate product is a recently published book, HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (van Leeuwen, Maas, and Miles 2002). The authors describe...

This study focuses on the integration of panoramic photographs and web-based GIS. The integration of complementary technologies provides more powerful results in GIS applications. Collecting and assembling a series of digital images of large geographic areas into single panoramic images allow the user to view a multi-dimensional map that provides significantly more geographic information. By ad...

rehabiliating bushehr historic fabric and paying to it as an important urban fabric through increasing capabilities and facilities is main concern. bushehr historical fabric can be the consequence of several factors the most important of which is the persian gulf and its past history as a national one. this fabric, is organic, dense, compact, having its own characteristics. one of its main prio...

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This paper reports on the Joaquim Nabuco Project, a pioneering work in Latin America on document digitalization, enhancement, compression, indexing, retrieval and network transmission of historical document images.

We propose a method to extract special objects in images of medieval books, which generally represent, for example, figures and capital letters. Instead of working on the single pixel level, we consider superpixels as the basic classification units for improved time efficiency. More specifically, we classify superpixels into different categories/objects by using a bag-of-features (BoF) approach...

On behalf of the entire Organization Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Twelth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2014), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and the Scientific Associations for Infocommunications Hungary (HTE). The Procee...

The National Taiwan University Library has built a digital library of historical documents about Taiwan. The content is unique in that it covers about 80% of all primary Chinese historical materials about Taiwan before 1895, and that they are all available in searchable full text, in addition to metadata. To make these materials more accessible to the research community, we have developed, in a...