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Edge‐Channel Aggregation Network and Two‐Stage Fine Tuning Scheme for Handwritten Dongba Character Recognition

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Handwritten Dongba Character Recognition (HDCR) contains a large number of visually similar characters with subtle and fragile edge cues, posing severe challenges to feature learning. To address this issue, an Edge Channel Aggregation Network (EdgeCANet) model is proposed.
Xiali Li, Yang Xiao, Xiaojun Bi, Yanlong Luo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Class Angular Distortion Index for Dimensionality Reduction

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques are often characterized by whether they preserve global, high‐level structures in the data or local, neighborhood structures. This distinction matters in visualization: global methods can obscure clusters while local methods can over‐emphasize them.
Kaviru Gunaratne, Stephen Kobourov, Jacob Miller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Single Line Drawing Generation via Semantics‐Driven Optimization

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We present a method for automatically generating single‐line drawings in vector format, guided by a text prompt or an input image. Our approach leverages score distillation sampling to optimize the parameters of a uniform rational B‐spline (URBS) curve, ensuring that the drawing consists of a single continuous stroke by design.
Tanguy Magne, Alexandre Binninger, Ruben Wiersma, Olga Sorkine‐Hornung   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Removing the Basis of the Historic Conflict? The Downing Street Declaration and the Contested Role of European Integration in the Northern Ireland Peace Process

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the section on European integration in the Joint Declaration by British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in 1993. The Joint Declaration, also known as the ‘Downing Street Declaration’, was a pivotal moment in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Conor J. Kelly, Eleanor Leah Williams, Annabel Harris, Ruth Murray   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Healthcare Contracts: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate the contracts offered by a large healthcare purchaser to health service providers. Contracts are based on the DRG principle that all hospitalizations in a diagnosis group are reimbursed at the same rate. This principle is relaxed in practice, as in several cases, the amount reimbursed within each DRG exhibits ...
Paolo Berta, Gianni De Fraja, Stefano Verzillo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ARletta. Open-Source Handwritten Text Recognition Models for Historic Dutch

Journal of Open Humanities Data
We release ARletta, a series of open-source models for the automated transcription of historic Dutch-language handwritten sources, which has remained a desideratum in the scholarly community until now.
Lith Lefranc, Ilja Van Damme, Thibault Clérice, Mike Kestemont   +3 more
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Surgical Wound Care Practices of Nurses in a Low‐Resourced Setting: An Observational Study

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To observe and describe the surgical wound care practices of nurses in a Sri Lankan tertiary care hospital. Design A cross‐sectional observational study. Methods We observed surgical wound care practices of registered nurses (RNs) working in 13 general surgical wards of a 3000‐bed tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka.
Gayani Priyangika Gamage, Sanjeewa Seneviratne, Josephine Lovegrove, Georgia Tobiano, Brigid Mary Gillespie   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handwritten Documents Text Line Segmentation based on Information Energy

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS COMMUNICATIONS & CONTROL, 2014
The first step in the text recognition process is represented by the text line segmentation procedures. Only after text lines are correctly identified can the process proceed to the recognition of individual characters. This paper proposes a line segmentation algorithm based on the computation of an information content level, called energy, for each ...
Costin-Anton Boiangiu, Mihai Cristian Tanase, Radu Ioanitescu   +2 more
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Cohort and Case–Control Studies: Strengths, Limitations and Methodological Considerations

Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
Population‐based epidemiology and clinical research are complementary by design—and nowhere is that more evident than in cohort studies. By following individuals over time, cohorts quantify disease incidence, elucidate environmental and social determinants and evaluate biomarkers and prognostic outcomes within a single longitudinal framework.
Nasir Z. Bashir, João Botelho, John Rong Hao Tay, Dian Yi Chow, Gustavo G. Nascimento   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source