A Novel Image Matching Approach for Word Spotting Muhammad Ismail Shah Word spotting has been adopted and used by various researchers as a complementary technique to Optical Character Recognition for document analysis and retrieval. The various applications of word spotting include document indexing, image retrieval and information filtering. The important factors in word spotting techniques ar...

Dynamic optimization technology improves its target system on the fly according to the system status. There are some studies on microprocessors to dynamically improve performance and energy efficiency. We are investigating a software-based dynamic optimization mechanism on a multi-threaded processor to improve performance. Optimization is performed on binary codes. To optimize binary codes dyna...

The complexity of first-principles total energy calculations limits the pool of structure types considered for a ground-state search for a binary alloy system to a rather small, O(10), group of "usual suspects." We conducted an unbiased search of fcc-based Ag(1)-(x)Pd(x) structures consisting of up to many thousand atoms by using a mixed-space cluster expansion. We find an unsuspected ground st...

Self-assembly of binary particle systems offers many new opportunities for materials science. Here, we studied sedimentation equilibria of silica rods and spheres, using quantitative 3D confocal microscopy. We determined not only pressure, density and order parameter profiles, but also the experimental phase diagram exhibiting a stable binary smectic liquid-crystalline phase (Sm2). Using comput...

An analytical version of the discrete-ordinates method (the ADO method) is used with recently reported analytical forms for the rigid-sphere scattering kernels to establish a concise and particularly accurate solution to the temperature-jump problem for a binary gas mixture described by the linearized Boltzmann equation. The solution yields, in addition to the temperature-jump coefficient for t...

We show that any compact semi-algebraic subset of mixed action profiles on a fixed player set can be represented as the projection of the set of equilibria of a game in which additional binary players have been added. Even stronger, we show that any semi-algebraic continuous function, or even any semi-algebraic upper-semicontinuous correspondence with nonempty values, from a bounded semi-algebr...

Binary oppositions are among the essential concepts and components of structuralism and linguistic and semiotic theories that are rooted in human ancient beliefs. One of the fundamental functions of the human mind is the creation of binary oppositions, which are seen in art and literature. The study of binary oppositions in literary works leads to a better understanding of them. This article is...

A multi–temperature hydrodynamic limit of kinetic equations is employed for the analysis of the steady shock problem in a binary mixture. Numerical results for varying parameters indicate possible occurrence of either smooth profiles or of weak solutions with one or two discontinuities.