Handwriting recognition has been one of the active and challenging research areas in the field of image processing and pattern recognition. It has numerous applications that includes, reading aid for blind, bank cheques and conversion of any hand written document into structural text form. Neural Network (NN) with its inherent learning ability offers promising solutions for handwritten characte...

walking being the oldest form of urban transport, and until the advent of major transformationsin transport technology in the nineteenth century, most cities were structured in ways that supported walkability.today, there is a change in transportation which emphasizes, the traditional pedestrian paths which are increasinglybecoming non-regulated spaces when compared to the urban spaces for auto...

The microphase separation of hydrated perfluorinated sulfonic acid membrane Nafion was investigated using Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD). The nafion as a polymer was modelled by connecting coarse grained beads which corresponds to the hydrophobic backbone of polytetrafluoroethylene and perfluorinated side chains terminated by hydrophilic end particles of sulfonic acid groups [1, 2]. Each f...

Although land use planning and urban design are increasingly touted as powerful tools for influencing transportation behavior, only modest empirical evidence for this relationship exists. Here, the results from a two-day activity diary are combined with innovative GIS-based measures of urban form and land use pattern to statistically test potential influences on noncommute home-based mode choic...

There has been increased attention to urban form in the recent segregation literature, showing population density and changes in housing structure as having crucial influence on segregation patterns (Spielman and Harrison 2013; Rothwell and Massey 2010; Watson 2006). However, there has been little work examining areas with newly constructed housing, looking at what kinds of people move to these...

A new approach to diagnostic testing of embedded memories is presented which enables the design of tests that provide complete detection and distinguishing of all faults in a given fault model. The approach is based on decomposition of functional memory faults into basic fault effects and output tracing. Output tracing involves storing all read operation results for defective memory cells and r...

A deterministic dynamic element matching (DEM) approach to ADC testing is introduced and compared with a common random DEM method. With both approaches, a highly non-ideal DAC is used to generate an excitation for a DUT that has linearity that far exceeds that of the test stimulus. Simulation results show that both methods can be used for testing of ADCs but with a substantial reduction in the ...

The design and architecture of a reconngurable memory BIST unit is presented. The proposed memory BIST unit could accommodate changes in the test algorithm with no impact to the hardware. Diierent types of march test algorithms could be realized using the proposed memory BIST unit and the proposed architecture allows addition and elimination of the memory BIST components. Therefore memories wit...