Manuscript Collections, Archives, and Special Collections
Manuscript collections and institutional archives often began as miscellaneous, non-conforming collections of library materials. These collections, along with other non-conforming materials and rare books were often joined together under a special collections administration.
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Palmira: A Deep Deformable Network for Instance Segmentation of Dense and Uneven Layouts in Handwritten Manuscripts [PDF]
Handwritten documents are often characterized by dense and uneven layout. Despite advances, standard deep network based approaches for semantic layout segmentation are not robust to complex deformations seen across semantic regions. This phenomenon is especially pronounced for the low-resource Indic palm-leaf manuscript domain. To address the issue, we
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The Library of the Poznań Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences has been recently enriched by the accession of the manuscript “Poetical texts from the first half of the nineteenth century”.
Joanna Pietrowicz
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On the genre composition of a manuscript collection from M.P. Golovin’s library [PDF]
The article analyzes one of the Old Russian narrative manuscript collections of the 17th century as a literary fact. Two interesting anonymous works from it are published: “Epistle of a Sad Man” and the verse “About Human Life”.
Аnatoly S. Demin
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Extensive Copy-Number Variation of Young Genes across Stickleback Populations [PDF]
MM received funding from the Max Planck innovation funds for this project. PGDF was supported by a Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant (proposal nr 270891). CE was supported by German Science Foundation grants (DFG, EI 841/4-1 and EI 841/6-1).
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RELIGION AND HARRITAGE: THE ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT OF THE QURAN BY ABDURRAHMAN HUSIN FALLUGAH (W.2010)
This article is extracted from the philological-codicological research on the Mushaf Al-Qur’an (codex or collection of sheets of the Qur’an, hereafter referred to as the mushaf) manuscript in West Kalimantan, especially the collection of Abdurrahman ...
Faizal Amin
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Fast Abstracts and Student Forum Proceedings, 18th European Dependable Computing Conference -- EDCC 2022 [PDF]
Collection of manuscripts accepted for presentation at the Student Forum and Fast Abstracts tracks of the 18th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC 2022).
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Population and species neighbor identity impact trait–trait relationships and plant performance
We evaluated how populations and species identity influence plant performance and trait outcomes in mixtures, and assessed trait variation among populations of two forb species native to the western United States (Dieteria canescens and Heterotheca villosa) following three interaction treatments (single‐population monoculture, two‐population mixture ...
Alicia J. Foxx+2 more
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Läti rahvalaulud Johann Gottfried Herderi kogus [PDF]
The handwritten Latvian folk songs in Johann Gottfried Herder’s manuscripts collection at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Manuscript Department of the Berlin State Library (also known as “Livonian collection”, as titled by Leonid Arbusow) are a testimony ...
Beata Paškevica
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How to Choose Pretrained Handwriting Recognition Models for Single Writer Fine-Tuning [PDF]
Recent advancements in Deep Learning-based Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) have led to models with remarkable performance on both modern and historical manuscripts in large benchmark datasets. Nonetheless, those models struggle to obtain the same performance when applied to manuscripts with peculiar characteristics, such as language, paper support ...
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