Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century chant manuscripts from the collegiate church of St. John Baptist in Chaumont, France, have a notational anomaly: among standard features square notation, graphically elongated forms are used. These signs, often two to three times length square, frequently found at ends words sometimes combination with other neumes. The use signs suggests that their presence is n...

Taking its start from the analysis of notion savoir-pouvoir in Foucault's philosophical work, article discusses applicability concept lieux de savoir study writing activities late medieval France and Italy performed by non-professional vernacular scribes. The act copying a text is evaluated as an active contribution to dissemination religious texts. It approached social process, which creates c...

This book investigates the linguistic and formal aspects of more than a thousand requests for justice protection preserved in Egyptian papyri Roman Principate, mainly written Greek. For many centuries Egypt, from Ptolemaic period to late Empire, petitions addressed judicial authorities shared same textual structure made use recurring lexical formulas. Such uniformity was result adherence by scr...

Abstract Proverbs 30:1b presents one of the most intractable text-critical dilemmas in HB . Following Ronald Troxel’s suggestion that text criticism be reimagined as “a commentary on life text,” I suggest way forward reading Prov lies carefully engaging with versions a window its history. Emerging from this process, argue may have once read * לָאִיתִי וְלֹא אוּכָל , “I am weary and powerless.” Early o...

The use of FPGA circuits in imaging systems increases. They compete with other computing environments. The article de− scribes the indications to be followed while choosing the type of image processing computing system taking under consider− ation the advantages and disadvantages of each technology: general purpose processor, digital signal processor, graphical processing unit, application spec...

Color transfer between images uses the statistics information of image effectively. We present a novel approach of local color transfer between images based on the simple statistics and locally linear embedding. A sketching interface is proposed for quickly and easily specifying the color correspondences between target and source image. The user can specify the correspondences of local region u...