Segmentation of handwritten input into individual characters is a crucial step in many connected handwriting recognition systems. This paper describes a segmentation algorithm for letters in Roman alphabets, curved pre-stroke cut (CPSC) segmentation. The CPSC algorithm evaluates large set of curved cuts through the image of the input string using dynamic programming and selects a small “optimal...

Industrial forestry typically leads to a simplified forest structure and altered species composition. Retention of trees at harvest was introduced about 25 years ago to mitigate negative impacts on biodiversity, mainly from clearcutting, and is now widely practiced in boreal and temperate regions. Despite numerous studies on response of flora and fauna to retention, no comprehensive review has ...

The increasing cost of health care delivery, coupled with reduced investments and budget cuts in European health care systems, has had a severe negative impact on health care delivery in Spain. This reduction in spending has had particularly negative effects on specialties that are heavily reliant on large capital investments to purchase the latest technologies needed to deliver optimal radioth...

In this study a new approach to rank exponential fuzzy numbers using  -cuts is established. The metric distance of the interval numbers is extended to exponential fuzzy numbers. By using the ranking of exponential fuzzy numbers and using  -cuts the critical path of a project network is solved and illustrated by numerical examples. Keywords: Exponential Fuzzy Numbers,  -cuts, Metric Dista...

When mosaicking orthoimages, especially in urban areas with various obvious ground objects like buildings, roads, cars or trees, the detection of optimal seamlines is one of the key technologies for creating seamless and pleasant image mosaics. In this paper, we propose a new approach to detect optimal seamlines for orthoimage mosaicking with the use of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness and precision of tractionless retinal tissue dissection by the advanced version of the pulsed electron avalanche knife for fine cutting (PEAK-fc; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany). METHODS Porcine retina (in vivo) and human retina (in vitro) were incised with the PEAK-fc using various pulse parameters. The globes were then processed for light microscop...

In this paper, a method for optimizing a linear function over the integer Pareto-optimal set without having to determine all integer efficient solutions is presented. The proposed algorithm is based on a simple selection technique that improves the linear objective value at each iteration. Two types of cuts are performed successively until the optimal value is obtained and the current truncated...

Predatory pricing law attempts to keep prices low by harshly sanctioning prices that are anticompetitively low. The paradox of predatory pricing law is that even an analytically perfect specification of the line between predatory and innocent price cuts would result in deviations from optimal pricing because the very recognition of a predatory pricing offense will induce some firms to forgo inn...

Absrmer-This paper presents a new approach to optimal design centering, the optimal assignment of paramete-r tolerances and the determination and optimization of production yield. Based upon muftidimensionaf linear cuts of the tolerance orthotope and uniform distributions of outcomes between tolerance extremes in the orthotope, exact formulas for yield and yield sensitivities, witb respect to d...