This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a key economic outcome: female labor supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use an epidemiological approach, studying second-generation American women. I use both female LFP and attitudes in the women's country of ancestry as cultural ...

Extracting text objects from scene images is a challenging problem. In this paper, by investigating the properties of single characters and text objects, we propose a new text extraction approach for scene images. First, character energy is computed based on the similarity of stroke edges to detect candidate character regions, then link energy is calculated based on the spatial relationship and...

23 IJCAI-13: Beijing, China (August 3–9) 22 IJCAI-11: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (July 16–22) 21 IJCAI-09: Pasadena, California, USA (July 11–17) 20 IJCAI-07: Hyderabad, India (January 6–12) 19 IJCAI-05: Edinburgh, Scotland (July 30–August 5) 18 IJCAI-03: Acapulco, Mexico (August 9–15) 17 IJCAI-01: Seattle, Washington, USA (August 4–10) 16 IJCAI-99: Stockholm, Sweden (July 31–August 6) 15 IJCA...

Coded continuous phase modulation based on a feedback–free modulator with noncoherent detection is discussed. Low–complexity receiver processing is achieved by using only two or three linear filters for demodulation and applying noncoherent sequence estimation with reduced–state Viterbi decoding and simple branch metric calculation. Overall, the proposed noncoherent receiver provides significan...

On behalf of the organizers of the 22 International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2015), it is our pleasure to welcome you to Bengaluru (previously called Bangalore). We do hope you will find the conference experience and perusing the proceedings exciting and rewarding. The HiPC 2015 call for papers received an excellent response attracting around 200 submissions from many coun...