This paper proposes a new part-based approach for skew estimation of document images. The proposed method first estimates skew angles on rather small areas, which are the local parts of characters, and subsequently determines the global skew angle by aggregating those local estimations. A local skew estimation on a part of a skewed character is performed by finding an identical part from prepar...

Antibiotic resistance among uropathogens causing community acquired urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is increasing worldwide. Severity and endemicity persists despite of wide spread availability of drugs. Knowledge of the aetiology and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of uropathogens is important in order to determine the best empiric treatment option. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL...

What is the process by which our brains recognize higher-order visual objects, like faces, words and foreign scripts? How does perception change with experience, and what are the implications for human behavior? We are interested in exploring the extent to which face processing and word processing are mediated by different or same hemispheric mechanisms, and the extent to which experience with ...

A cladistic analysis was carried out for a complex of 33 species of the genus Cryptocephalus that has been recognized for some time as monophyletic. 55 morphological adult characters have been used, with 119 character states. Analyses were performed using parsimony procedures as well as Bayesian inference. Further information about phylogenetic scenarios were obtained by combining the morpholog...

Evidence of tuberculous infection has been found in the lungs of all of fifty adults who have been examined. Approximately one-half of all adults have encapsulated lesions of the lungs or bronchial lymphatic nodes, whereas in one-third pulmonary and lymphatic lesions are firmly calcified and completely healed. Tuberculous pulmonary lesions of adults who have died of diseases other than tubercul...

The aim of the research is to understand “male” version a woman in prose young emigrants: firstly, metaphysical intuitions female characters, and, secondly, discovery essence perception characters and authors. material Vasilyy Yanovsky’s story “The Second Love” (1933) Boris Poplavsky’s novel Apollo Bezobrazov (1932), episodically Home From Heaven (1935). main aspects comparative analysis are im...

It is well known that the Zee model induces small neutrino masses by radiative corrections, where the bi-maximal flavor mixing is possible. We analyze the cosmological condition in order for the baryon asymmetry generated in the early universe not to be washed out in the Zee model. Since the lepton number is violated explicitly in the Zee model, the baryon asymmetry might be washed out through ...

We investigate transport properties and the electronic structure of BiCuSO, a thermoelectric material which was predicted as possible parent compound for unconventional superconductivity. For $p$-type BiCuSO samples studied in this paper, our measurements show metallic behavior down to 2 K, we observe an increase saturated magnetic moment around 4 could be due reorientation easy axis. Using ang...

Modern view of network resilience and epidemic spreading has been shaped by percolation tools from statistical physics, where nodes edges are removed or immunized randomly a large-scale network. In this paper, we produce theoretical framework for studying targeted immunization in networks, only n can be observed at time with the most connected one among them being immunity it acquired may lost ...

August Weismann rejected the inheritance of acquired characters on the grounds that changes to the soma cannot produce the kind of changes to the germ-plasm that would result in the altered character being transmitted to subsequent generations. His intended distinction, between germ-plasm and soma, was closer to the modern distinction between genotype and phenotype than to the modern distinctio...