Abstract Double nasal presents—presents containing both a infix and suffix—are found in Greek (type λιμπάνω ‘leave’), Celtic (e.g., OIr. ro·finnadar (< *wind-n- ) ‘get to know’), Germanic (Go. du-ginnan (← *-gunnan < *gund-n- ‘begin’). It is argued here that all such formations have common origin. The starting point was the nasal-infix present of root *g h ed- ‘grasp’, which originally ha...

This paper presents a system that is being developed for the recognition of the handwritten legal amount in Brazilian bank checks. Our strategy used to approach the handwritten legal amount recognition problem puts on evidence the key-words: "mil", "reais/real", "centavos/centavo" which are almost always present in each amount. The recognizer, based on Hidden Markov Models, does a global word a...

If you have ever watched movies or television shows, you know how easy it is to tell the good characters from the bad ones. Little, however, is known “whether” or “how” computers can achieve such high-level understanding of movies. In this paper, we take the first step towards learning the relations among movie characters using visual and auditory cues. Specifically, we use support vector regre...

This paper presents an experimental research on the distribution of local friction factor, fb, and global friction factor, f, over the cross-section of a channel with V-shaped bottom, which typically occurs in sewers and culverts. Several series of experiments were conducted for measuring velocity and boundary shear stress. It is found that, Darcy-Weisbach, f, is more sensitive than other resis...

This paper presents a features extraction module for isolated handwritten Arabic characters. The collected core features are based on pixels orientations according to Freeman chain code. The input to this module is Arabic character (in its basic-shapes i.e. without diacritics). The features extractor module, fed with a skeleton of an isolated character basic-shape, yields global and local featu...