While well described in text books, acute presentations of hypo-pituitarism are rare and must be considered when patients present with vague symptoms with poor response to standard resuscitation procedures.

Parents and children encounter a variety of animals and objects in the early picture books they share, but little is known about how the context in which these entities are presented influences talk about them. The present study investigated how the presence or absence of a visual narrative context influences mothers' tendency to refer to animals as individual characters or as members of a kind...

There are two issues that are challenging in the life-cycle of Digital Talking Books (DTB): the automatic labeling of text formatting meta-data in documents and the multimodal representation of the text formatting semantics. We propose an augmented design-for-all approach for both the production and the reading processes of DAISY compliant DTBs. This approach incorporates a methodology for the ...

In this paper we introduce a new technique for presenting textual information within images and for enabling users to interact with these texts. Our method relies on shading images using text-based dither matrices; users extract text by effectively enlarging the dither matrices to the point where text becomes legible. Transitions between matrix sizes are carried out step by step and can be impl...

The national diet library in Japan provides a web based digital archive for early-modern printed books by image. To make better use of the digital archive, the book images should be converted to text data. In this paper, we evaluate the SVM based multi-fonts Kanji character recognition method for early-modern Japanese printed books. Using several sets of Kanji characters clipped from different ...