It is commonly held that children show a decline in spontaneous art at the age of about seven and that the messages children receive impact on art confidence. Despite this prevailing view little research has been undertaken with children to explore the relationship between art confidence and messages. Therefore research was undertaken with 136 four to nineyear-old children to investigate drawin...

In this paper, we show that universal routing can be achieved with low overhead in distributed networks. The validity of our results rests on a new network called the fat-stack. We show that from a routing perspective the fat-stack is efficient and is suitable for use as a baseline distributed network and as a crucial benchmark architecture for evaluating the performance of specific distributed...

Although graph drawing and graph visualisation have often been the subject of research, most of this research focuses on creating tidier drawings of relatively small graphs. However, in today's complex society, research into the visualisation of large graphs is becoming increasingly important. One can think of maps of the entire internet or call graphs for very large software programs, for exam...

Summary: Associations among biological objects such as genes, proteins, and drugs can be discovered automatically from scientific literature. This paper describes ‘TransMiner’ a system for finding interesting associations among objects by mining the Medline database of scientific literature. The direct associations among the objects are discovered based on the principle of cooccurrence from the...

Graphics Recognition is a branch of document analysis that focuses on the recovery of graphical information in documents. Graphics consist of spatial arrangements of symbols ; examples include engineering drawings, maps, architectural drawings, music scores, tables, and charts. In this paper we overview the main topics in the last decade. We also hypothesize on the emerging research interests t...

The term ‘behavior’ is used ubiquitously in engineering. It refers roughly to the way technical artifacts ‘behave’ in a given or hypothetical situation, and plays a pivotal role in specific design methodologies since it allows connecting descriptions of the physical structure of technical artifacts to descriptions of their technical functions. However, behavior does not have a precise meaning: ...

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INTRODUCTION Wikipedia is emerging as the dominant global knowledge repository. Recently, large numbers of Wikipedia users have collaborated to produce more structured information in the online encyclopedia. For example, the information found in tables, categories and infoboxes. Infoboxes contain key-value pairs, manually appended to articles based on the unstructured text therein. The wiki con...