India has more than 1,600 official languages, making it a multilingual country. Kannada, one of the major originated in state Karnataka and is currently ranked 33rd among accents that are most often spoken throughout world. However, survey shows much effort needed to create complete handwritten identification system. Segmentation crucial steps handwriting system extracts significant objects fro...

Chapter 9 of the Unicode standard [1] describes the representational model for encoding Indic scripts. Devanagari is described in Section 9.1; the principles of Indic scripts are covered in some detail in the introduction to Devanagari. The descriptions of the remaining Indic scripts were abbreviated highlighting any di erences from Devanagari where appropriate. Some of the problems in this des...

Convincing arguments for using critical realism as an underpinning for theories of IT-associated organizational change have appeared in the IS literature. A central task in developing such theories is to uncover the generative mechanisms by which IT is implicated in organizational change processes, but to do so, we must explain how critical realism’s concept of generative mechanisms applies in ...

Assessment in clinical psychology typically relies on global retrospective self-reports collected at research or clinic visits, which are limited by recall bias and are not well suited to address how behavior changes over time and across contexts. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) involves repeated sampling of subjects' current behaviors and experiences in real time, in subjects' natural en...

Poverty analysis is often based on national level indicators that are compared over time or across countries. The broad trends that can be identified using aggregate information are useful for evaluating and monitoring the overall performance of a country. For many policy and research applications, however, the information that can be extracted from aggregate indicators is not sufficient. Resea...

Sorption-desorption processes control soil-pollutant interactions. These processes determine the extent of pyrene transport in soils. Understanding sorption characteristics of pyrene is necessary in ascertaining its fate in soil. Laboratory batch experiments were conducted to study the sorptions-desorption of pyrene on eight soils from varying tropical agro-ecological zones (AEZs). The results ...

Today’s JavaScript applications are composed of scripts from different origins that are loaded at run time. As not all of these origins are equally trusted, the execution of these scripts should be isolated from one another. However, some scripts must access the application state and some may be allowed to change it, while preserving the confidentiality and integrity constraints of the applicat...

Black men in the USA experience disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, particularly in the Southeastern part of the country. We conducted 90 qualitative in-depth interviews with Black men living in the state of Georgia and analysed the transcripts using Sexual Script Theory to: (1) characterise the sources and content of sexual scripts that Black men were exposed to during their childh...

Human social activities follow loosely defined scripts in which individuals assume roles. Social conventions establish stereotypical skeletons for such scripts, with details and variations determined by the circumstances and personalities of the individuals who play the roles. Encoding social scripts in a formal representation would seem to hold the promise of building systems that provide serv...