Australia currently has no system of passive surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in spite of the importance of surveillance in identifying and defi ning emergent resistance being generally accepted. Queensland Health Pathology and Scientifi c Services have developed fl exible software for passive surveillance with the capacity to handle national data. The system imports raw data strings in...

ISO/IEC 10646-1 defines a multi-octet character set called the Universal Character Set (UCS) which encompasses most of the world’s writing systems. Multi-octet characters, however, are not compatible with many current applications and protocols, and this has led to the development of a few so-called UCS transformation formats (UTF), each with different characteristics. UTF-8, the object of this...

A computer program listing consisting of a single file entitled ArQ-Src1-6.txt, in ASCII format, is included with this patent application.

Greeklish is a transliteration of the Greek language written using Roman characters. This phenomenon started in the 1980’s, when the Greek language was unfortunately covered by multiple ASCII extensions (codepages) which were incompatible. This lead to communication problems, with users being forced to guess the correct encoding of every message, document and webpage. Making matters worse, publ...

Studies of human memory often generate data on the sequence and timing of recalled items, but scoring such data using conventional methods is difficult or impossible. We describe a Python-based semiautomated system that greatly simplifies this task. This software, called PyParse, can easily be used in conjunction with many common experiment authoring systems. Scored data is output in a simple A...

A menu-drive PC program, ZDIST, for computing the distances between the estimated polynomial growth curves of subjects who have been followed longitudinally is described, illustrated, and made available to interested readers. These distances can be computed on the basis of the individual growth curves themselves and/or from estimates of individuals' growth velocity and acceleration curves. The ...

Lojban is an old artificial language which is ambiguity free, it can also be used as a tool to express Chinese text encoding in readable ASCII characters, and thus be applied in TEX typesetting system.

Directed self-placement (DSP) is considered useful in linguistically and culturally diverse writing programs, but questions of self-efficacy institutional knowledge sustain hesitancy using DSP with English as an additional language (EAL) writers. This interview study grounded sociocultural literacy theory explores multilingual, international students’ engagement placement courses, showcasing tw...

There’s no easy way for a coder to visually describe software in software. The closest thing is graphviz[1], which isn’t an inherently visual or intuitive language[2]. The way to solve this would be to find the fundamental visual elements of software diagrams, then write an intuitive language to generate them. Ideally untrained readers would be able to easily read either the source code or the ...

The digitization of scanned forms and documents is changing the data sources that enterprises manage. To integrate these new data sources with enterprise data, the current state-of-the-art approach is to convert the images to ASCII text using optical character recognition (OCR) software and then to store the resulting ASCII text in a relational database. The OCR problem is challenging, and so t...