Originally published in 2003, this article presents one of the first attempts to provide a systematic summary of the new concept of cultural technique. It is, in essence, an extended checklist aimed at overcoming the textualist bias of traditional cultural theory by highlighting what is elided by this bias. On the one hand, to speak of cultural techniques redirects our attention to material and...

s the proliferation of applications accelerates, users find themselves losing the authentication war; every application that they are introduced to requires its own authentication or login. Some applications do this because they need to identify the user they are dealing with. Other applications do so because they simply do not trust anyone else to conduct authentication for them. The evolution...

The purpose of this research is development of an algorithm for hardware implementation for number recognition applying in speed traffic-sign recognition system for car driving assistant. We recognize the speed limit of the speed traffic-sign using hardware oriented extraction algorithm. The numbers are recognized by comparing their feature values with the recognized features. The proposed hard...

Prosodic structure in sign languages is encoded by articulations of the hands, face, and body. Despite the different physical system, there are many similarities to prosody of spoken language, such as the existence of a prosodic hierarchy, alignment of intonational elements (conveyed by the face) with temporally marked prosodic constituents (conveyed by the hands), and a close relation between ...

Short abstract Compounding is one of the few sequential word formation processes found across sign languages. We examine the properties of compounds in languages in the visual-gestural modality, showing both similarities to spoken language compounds, as well as a modality-specific type of simultaneous compounding. We also explore the development of compounds in a new sign language, (Al-Sayyid B...

Abstract The focus of this work is sign spotting –given a video an isolated sign, our task to identify whether and where it has been signed in continuous, co-articulated language video. To achieve task, we train model using multiple types available supervision by: (1) watching existing footage which sparsely labelled mouthing cues; (2) reading associated subtitles (readily translations the cont...

We determine the polarized gluon distribution ∆g(x) by a global analysis using current DIS and π0 asymmetry data. The π0 data from RHIC-Spin experiments provide a strong constraint on ∆g(x), so that its uncertainty is reduced. However, a sign problem appears in the analysis using π0 data, which means that positive and negative distributions are allowed for ∆g(x). These two types of solutions ar...