The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of culture and communication style (explicit versus implicit) on people’s reactions on recommendations in intercultural collaboration. The experimental results from three intercultural collaboration teams were studied: Chinese-American, Chinese-German, and Chinese-Korean. The results indicate that Chinese participants showed more positive...

Arabic language is characterized by extensive use of dots or secondary characters associated with main body or primary characters. More than half of the Arabic characters can only be distinguished by these secondary characters. Hence recognition of these characters has a vital importance in Arabic OCR. In printed text the problem is much easier than handwritten text because of the variety of sh...