Unless the writing is completely legible and usually modern, even advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems give rise to transcription problems and provide results with many errors that need to be edited afterwards, a time-consuming process.
The Computational Perception and Learning Research Group in the Computer Languages and Systems Department at the Universitat Jaume I, in collaboration with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, have developed a new assisted system for the transcription of written text called 'State', a transcription system that integrates a series of tools with which images can be processed in order to remove noise and clean up the original image.
Today's tale looks at whether ancient Sufi mystics predicted the current climate for science in the Western World. Some see science as an ivory tower pursuit, others as a way of achieving technological advancement, still others as a path to personal glory. But some of us see more.
A quick look at the top ScientificBlogging stories this week gives us titles seemingly ripped from summer blockbusters and beach reading. Shark Week, Chemistry of Love, Moral Lessons, the Indiana Jones Method of Science, Super Sexy.
A low-cost generator could be a boon for people in the world’s poorest countries. The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham, is developing a biomass-burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.
The £2 million Score project (Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity) has brought together experts from across the world to develop the biomass-powered generator. An affordable, versatile domestic appliance like Score aims to address the energy needs of rural communities in Africa and Asia, where access to power is extremely limited.
In the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species', despite consistent patterns of biodiversity identified over space, time, organism type and geographical region, there still remain two views of the process of 'speciation', the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.
The first requires a physical barrier; a glacier, mountain or body of water that separates organisms, enabling groups to diverge until they become separate species. In the second scenario, an environment favors specific characteristics within a species, which encourages divergence as members fill different roles in an ecosystem.
Yesterday I posted a short article whose main purpose was to show a figure I had received from Sven Heinemeyer, a phenomenologist who specializes in the study of Minimal Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model (MSSM).
Besides predicting a mirror copy of Standard Model (SM) particles, MSSM models are characterized by containing not just one, but five distinct Higgs bosons; over much of the space of possible parameters of these theories, one of the five Higgs bosons is quite similar to the one and only SM Higgs, so that one can discuss the SM Higgs and the lightest neutral scalar of the MSSM together without generating confusion.
Science is occasionally a life-threatening career choice, particularly for those scientists who risk shipwreck, starvation, disease, and large, arctic carnivores to unlock the mysteries of the life's past.
Sean Carroll, in Remarkable Creatures, looks at how the drive to explore, the itch for discovery that pushed Columbus and Magellan on their great voyages, has worked its magic on those great scientists who have pursued scientific adventures to the most extreme corners of the earth.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 17 --
The Chilean telecommunications market will grow at a CAGR of 6.6 percent over
the next five years for a total of US$6.4 billion in 2014, mainly due to the
increasing penetration of mobile services and the adoption of mobile Internet
services including data cards and mobile browsing, according to a new report
from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light
Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).
NEW YORK, July 17 --
- Huge turnout for Light Reading’s Packet-Optical Transport Evolution
Virtual Tradeshow with the industry’s leading optical experts, nearly 900
attendees, and 10 sponsors
Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the leading online publication for the
telecom industry, and Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious
market research division, produced the optical networking industry’s first
online tradeshow on July 14, The Packet-Optical Transport Virtual Tradeshow,
with 1,757 registrants, 881 attendees, and 10 sponsors.
HOUSTON, July 17 --
Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE-Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) will
participate in The 2009 Oil and Gas Conference hosted by Enercom, Inc. on
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 in Denver, Colorado.
William L. Transier, chairman, chief executive officer and president, is
scheduled to speak on the company’s business strategies and operational
plans at 11:20 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, 6:20 p.m. British Summer Time. A
webcast of the presentation will available by accessing Endeavour’s
Internet home page at http://www.endeavourcorp.com.
CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, July 17 --
- Strong Growth in First-Half Revenue, up 9.4% - Operating Margin Holds Firm
Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today announced
consolidated revenue of an estimated EUR1,663.4 million for the six months ended
June 30, 2009, representing a reported 9.4% increase on first-half 2008.
Like-for-like, revenue was down a slight 0.7% for the period, but was up 5.3%
excluding the currency effect alone.
