since the formulation of rulings is directly related to the refinement of issues, the present paper aims at outlining the extent of a mental disorder namely dementia, so that from this perspective an acceptable separation between this and other psychiatric disorders can be achieved in the realm of jurisprudence. evaluation of narratives, comparing jurisprudential rulings issued in the case of p...

Ruling gap ratios are an affine-invariant characterization of parallel ruling configurations in scanned documents. This report quantifies the advantage of simultaneous extraction of horizontal and vertical rulings. It demonstrates that every ruling gap ratio can be derived from a minimal set of basis ratios. The effect on the basis ratios of noise on the radial coordinates of individual rulings...

Each ruling of a Legendrian link can be naturally treated as a surface. For knots, the ruling is 2–graded if and only if the surface is orientable. For 2–graded rulings of homogeneous (in particular, alternating) knots, we prove that the genus of this surface is at most the genus of the knot. While this is not true in general, we do prove that the canonical genus (a.k.a. diagram genus) of any k...

Archival documents are difficult to recognize because they are often damaged. Moreover, variations between documents are important even for documents having a priori the same structure. A recognition system to overcome these difficulties needs an external knowledge. Therefore we present a recognition system using an user description. To use table descriptions in analyzing the image, our system ...

Geometric invariants are combined with edit distance to compare the ruling configuration of noisy filled-out forms. It is shown that gap-ratios used as features capture most of the ruling information of even low-resolution and poorly scanned form images, and that the edit distance is tolerant of missed and spurious rulings. No preprocessing is required and the potentially time-consuming string ...