This paper presents a language identification technique that differentiates Latin-based languages in degraded and distorted document images. Different from the reported methods that transform word images through a character shape coding process, our method directly captures word shapes with the local extremum points and the horizontal intersection numbers, which are both tolerant of noise, char...

The electron-impact ionization cross section of Be is calculated using both a time-dependent and a timeindependent close-coupling method. The time-dependent method is based on the propagation of wave packets constructed using excited-state orbitals calculated in a core pseudopotential. The time-independent method is an R-matrix solution based on a total wave function constructed using antisymme...