In this paper, a preprocessing model for hand-written Arabic text on the basis of the Voronoi Diagrams (VDs) is presented and discussed. The proposed VD-based pre-processing model consists of five stages: a preparatory stage, page segmentation, thinning, baseline estimation, and slanting correction. In the preparatory stage, the text image is converted via VDs into a group of geometrical forms ...

Two directional UWB monopole antennas are proposed. It is shown that a design methodology for omnidirectional UWB rectangular planar monopole antennas can be applied for directional ones. The directional features are taken by introducing a slanting angle between the radiator and the ground plane. The slanting angle also plays a role in the low cutoff frequency, and it is considered in a propose...

The perceptual correlates of sensory cyclofusion have received little attention. However, they are easily elicited by asking patients with torsion about perceived slant of the visual world, and by watching how they hold the Titmus or Randot book. Sensory cyclofusion induces two types of perceptual aberrations. First, it rotates the plane of maximal stereoscopic volume in the pitch plane. As suc...

A child with a de novo interstitial deletion, 46,XX,del(2)(q31q33), is described. Clinical features included psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, microcephaly, hypertelorism, downward slanting palpebral fissures, macrostomia, cleft palate, micrognathia, abnormal ears, overlapping fingers, simian creases, and rocker bottom feet.

Growth and performance Prenatal onset growth deficiency + + Psychomotor retardation + + Decreased visual responsiveness + + Hearing loss + + Craniofacies Microcephaly + + Triangular face + + Micrognathia + + Prominent nasal bridge 0 + Hypoplastic nasal alae + Eyes Ptosis + + Short palpebral fissures 0 + Epicanthal folds + + Upward slanting palpebral fissures + Ears Malformed + + Preauricular pi...

This paper reports on attempts at Aberdeen1 to measure the effects on readers’ emotions of positively and negatively “slanted” texts with the same basic message. The “slanting” methods could be implemented in an (NLG) system. We discuss a number of possible reasons why the studies were unable to show clear, statistically significant differences between the effects of the different texts.