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Writing about a Prime Minister: Reflections on How Malcolm Fraser PM Happened

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
In 1989 I published Malcolm Fraser PM, a study of the way that prime minister Fraser worked. In this note I muse about the back story, about the processes involved in writing a study of a recently defeated prime minister, explaining how the book was written and what could be learnt from the interactions with Fraser.
Patrick Weller
wiley   +1 more source

Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves in Philippine Collective Bargaining Agreements

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When statutory work–family entitlements are deemed insufficient, workers often rely on collective bargaining to secure better terms. However, the extent to which unions can deliver higher than statutory benefits remains underexplored, especially in developing countries with decentralized bargaining systems and low union salience. Bridging this
Vincent Jerald Ramos
wiley   +1 more source

Supervision as a Dispersed Practice: Exploring the Creation of Supervisory Spaces in Day‐to‐Day Social Work Practice

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supervision is integral to social work practice; however, how it operates in day‐to‐day practice remains poorly understood. Existing research mainly comprises quantitative and qualitative accounts of social workers' and supervisors' experiences of supervision.
Mark Gregory
wiley   +1 more source

Textile and colour defect detection using deep learning methods

Coloration Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent advances in deep learning (DL) have significantly enhanced the detection of textile and colour defects. This review focuses specifically on the application of DL‐based methods for defect detection in textile and coloration processes, with an emphasis on object detection and related computer vision (CV) tasks.
Hao Cui, Abdel‐Fattah Seyam, Renzo Shamey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handwritten Optical Character Recognition

Η παρούσα διπλωματική επικεντρώνεται στην αναγνώριση παλαιών ελληνικών χειρόγρα- φων εγγράφων, τα οποία είναι γραμμένα με πεζά και κεφαλαία γράμματα. Αν και τα κεί- μενα είναι γραμμένο με το ελληνικό πολυτονικό σύστημα γραφής, οι προβλέψεις γίνονται σε επίπεδο γραμμάτων χωρίς τόνους και πνεύματα.
openaire   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION

International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development, 2014
openaire   +1 more source

Success and failure in England's patent system: New evidence from patent applications, 1783–1834

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Our understanding of the relationship between the English patent system and technical change during the industrial revolution is based entirely on the study of successful patents. We address this feature by providing the first study of unsuccessful patent applications in England during the first industrial revolution.
Stephen D. Billington, Joe Lane
wiley   +1 more source

Deep convolutional neural network for isolated Arabic handwritten character recognition: design, evaluation, and comparative study. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Attar ET.
europepmc   +1 more source

Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson, Gill Newton, Linda Perriton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source