The contribution of this paper is twofold. First we investigate the use of the confusion matrices in order to get some insight to better define perceptual zoning for character recognition. We will see that this idea can be used as a tool to support the design of zoning. The features considered in this work are based on concavities/convexities deficiencies, which are obtained by labeling the bac...

Marine wildlife tourism can benefit both conservation and communities when managed effectively. The Wildlife Tourism Model (WTM) is a framework used to assess sustainability. This paper illustrates how two aspects of the model, the Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) and zoning can be linked to improve management direction. Four of the nine steps of the LAC process were applied to identify sustai...

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park was established to provide for conservation and ecologically sustainable multiple use of 344,400 km2 of a large marine ecosystem. Management is based on multiple use, with zoning as a fundamental component of marine spatial planning. The legislative framework, including a specific Act and Regulations, address the objectives of ecosystembased, integrated manage...

Cursive script has many ambiguities. Feature extraction, by locating some specific characteristics of a writing sample in isolation or in combination with other features, can minimise the effect of these ambiguities. There are many features that can be extracted from any given sample. Information about the expected vertical letter position within the word, the zoning information, is envisaged t...

The observations of hour-glass sector zoning from four selected clinopyroxenes in undersaturated lavas best fit a model in which the sector zoning is formed due to a structural requirement in a growth direction normal to {IOO} where a high concentration of silicate units, required to build the silicate chains, is unsatisfied. In these sectors AI substitutes for Si, the charge balance being main...

changes in groundwater quality, is caused destruction of other resources, either directly or indirectly, due to bad management of groundwater extractions. considering the importance of groundwater resources, especially in arid and semiarid regions, this research was done to modeling the spatial distribution of some groundwater qualitative factors with emphasis on drinking using geostatistical m...

Urban planners and ecologists have long debated the relationship between the structure of urban landscapes and social activities. There have, however, been very few discussions as to whether any such relationships might depend on the scales of observation. This work applies a hierarchical zoning technique to data from the city of Quito, Ecuador, to examine how relationships between typical spat...

BACKGROUND Current public concern over the spread of infectious diseases has underscored the importance of health surveillance systems for the speedy detection of disease outbreaks. Several international report-based monitoring systems have been developed, including GPHIN, Argus, HealthMap, and BioCaster. A vital feature of these report-based systems is the geo-temporal encoding of outbreak-rel...

In emerging database applications that deal with large sets of multidimensional data, the performance of the query system significantly depends on the performance of its access methods and the underlying disk system. In recent years, hard disks are manufactured with multiple physical zones, where seek times and data transfer rates vary significantly across the zones. However, there is a marked ...

The whole word recognition process described in this report aims at limiting the recognition domain, i.e. the size of the lexicon used for a particular word. The process consists of the following stages: • calculating the word zoning information and the position of ascenders/descenders within the word; • building word shape information using the obtained zoning information; • locating words of ...