The paper describes a recognition scheme for reading handwritten cursive words using three word recognition techniques. It particularly focuses on the implementation used to combine the three techniques based on a comparative sru& of different strategies. The first holistic recognition technique derives a global encoding of the word. The other techniques both rely on the segmentatiorr of the wo...

Screening of biochemical interactions becomes simpler, less expensive, and more accurate when labels, such as fluorescent dyes, radioactive markers, and colorimetric reactions, are not required to quantify detected material. SRU Biosystems has developed a biosensor technology that is manufactured on continuous sheets of plastic film and incorporated into standard microplates and microarray slid...

Cities have undergone many changes since the 1950s, not least the expansion of urban areas to the detriment of the historic central areas, some of which have been left to decay. In Portugal the most visible results of this phenomenon are found in themetropolitan areas of Lisbon andPorto. To address this problem, the Portuguese Government conceived the first legal instrument for urban regenerati...

This paper presents the performance of DSP, image and 3D applications on recent general-purpose microprocessors using streaming SIMD ISA extensions (integer and oating point). The 9 benchmarks benchmark we use for this evaluation have been optimized for DLP and caches use with SIMD extensions and data prefetch. The result of these cumulated optimizations is a speedup that ranges from 1.9 to 7.1...

The desertification process including natural resources degradation is a major obstacle to development in tropical and Mediterranean zones with strong drought constraints, leading to a wide range of possibly irreversible catastrophes: famine, land neglecting and migration. This process comes from a combination of different modes of resource management from different actors at different scales, ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the influence of selected aspects of lifestyle, personality, and other player related factors on injuries in the tackle. To describe the detailed circumstances in which these tackles occurred. METHODS A prospective case-control study was undertaken in which the tackling and tackled players ("the cases") involved in a tackle injury were each matched with "control" players ...

Recent findings have shown that microbial nitrogen flow and digestible energy of diets are increased when urea is combined with a slow-release urea (SRU) in diets with a starch to acid detergent fibre ratio (S:F) 4:1. This affect is attributable to enhanced synchrony between ruminal N availability for microbial growth and carbohydrate degradation. To verify the magnitude of this effects on lamb...