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in Latin America on document digitalization, enhancement, compression, indexing, retrieval and network transmission of historical document images.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The National Taiwan University Library has built a digital library of historical documents about Taiwan.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...

There is growing evidence in favor of the temporal-coding hypothesis that temporal correlation of neuronal discharges may serve to bind distributed neuronal activity into unique representations and, in particular, that theta (3.5-7.5 Hz) and delta (0.5 < 3.5 Hz) oscillations facilitate information coding. The theta- and delta-rhythms are shown to be involved in various sleep stages, and during ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of 2 automated systems, Morpheus and Somnolyzer24X7, with various levels of human review/editing, in scoring polysomnographic (PSG) recordings from a clinical trial using zolpidem in a model of transient insomnia. METHODS 164 all-night PSG recordings from 82 subjects collected during 2 nights of sleep, one under placebo and one under zolpidem (10 mg) trea...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Understanding individual's intention, action and maintenance to increase fruit and vegetable intake is an initial step in designing nutrition or health promotion programs. This study aimed to determine stages of change to increase fruit and vegetable intake and its relationships with fruit and vegetable intake, self-efficacy, perceived benefits and perceived barriers. SU...

The article highlights the main historical stages of formation system political values as a component Ukrainian national identity. It is indicated that are basis and implementation development strategy, ideology state formation, policy, adoption laws management decisions. emphasized an important stage in was period Cossack state, founded first half 16th century, which had significant impact on ...

Preservation of Artsakh's architectural heritage and the issues use have acquired a special significance today. The historical stages construction city Hadrut in Artsakh, and, as result their analysis, impact on further sustainable development been revealed. There are 5 main stages: formation, late Middle Ages, from 19th century to first half 20th century, Soviet independence periods. Suggestio...

UNLABELLED There still are many clinical and biological aspects of the natural history of cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract to be unveiled; which in Brazil is a direct consequence of the failure of systematic prevention and early diagnosis campaigns. OBJECTIVE To analyze the signs and symptoms presented by patients with the disease at initial and advanced stages. Other variables such as...