8 BIOMEDICAL COMPUTATION REVIEW Summer 2010 The human organism, standing one to two meters tall and living about 70 years, relies for health and survival on biological activity occurring at much smaller scales of space and time. At the bottom end—the nanometer and femtosecond scales—biologically active molecules work together to keep cells alive and reproducing. And at size and time-scales in b...

Die Sprache ist ein hervorragendes Werk, das durch Interaktion entsteht und mit dem wir eine Wirklichkeit erzeugen, die sowohl konstruierende als auch destruierende Rolle spielen kann. Manche Linguisten vergleichen den Sprachgebrauch Sprachspiel. Mit seiner Hervorhebung der Sprachverwendung seinem einprägsamen geschliffenen Ausspruch ‚Die Bedeutung eines Wortes sein Gebrauch in Sprache‘ gilt Wi...

in middle persian (pahlavi), like many other languages, one aspect of subjunctive verbs in the present tense and the past tense is used, but the evidence in the literature that is available only from some syghhhay. middle persian is bound by the obligation kmkarbrdtr of past and present verb root is apparently limited to some of the material or ben hung verbs and auxiliary verb hād made. howeve...

In spite of rapid evolution of electronic techniques, a number of large-scale applications continue to rely on the use of paper as the dominant medium. This is especially true for processing of bank checks. This paper examines the issue of reading the numerical amount field. In the case of checks, the segmentation of unconstrained strings into individual digits is a challenging task because of ...

Department of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Art and Art History, Virginia Tech, 121 VTKW II, 2202 Kraft Dr – MC 0106 Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA b Information Science and Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, 301 College Ave., Ithaca, NY 14580, USA Department of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Psychology, Virginia Tech, 123 VTKW II, 2202 Kraft Dr – MC 0106 Blacksburg, VA 24060...

In spite of the rapid advances in computers and communication technologies, a number of large–scale applications continue to rely heavily on the use of paper as the dominant medium, either in an intra–organizational or an inter–organizational environment. One major example of this category of paper intensive applications is the check processing application. In a number of countries, the value o...