English character recognition algorithm by improving the weights of MLP neural network with dragonfly algorithm

Character Recognition (CR) is taken into consideration for years. Meanwhile, the neural network plays an important role in recognizing handwritten characters. Many character identification reports have been publishing in English, but still the minimum training timing and high accuracy of handwriting English symbols and characters by utilizing a method of neural networks are represents as open problems. Therefore, creating a character recognition system manually and automatically is very important. In this research, an attempt has been done to incubate an automatic symbols and character system for recognition for English with minimum training and a very high recognition accuracy and classification timing. In the proposed idea for improving the weights of the MLP neural network method in the process of teaching and learning character recognition, the dragonfly optimization algorithm has been used. The innovation of the proposed detection system is that with a combination of dragonfly optimization technique and MLP neural networks, the precisions of the system are recovered, and the computing time is minimized. The approach which was used in this study to identify English characters has high accuracy and minimum training time

Bioinformatics framework for genotyping microarray data analysis

Functional genomics is a flourishing science enabled by recent technological breakthroughs in high-throughput instrumentation and microarray data analysis. Genotyping microarrays establish the genotypes of DNA sequences containing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and can help biologists probe the functions of different genes and/or construct complex gene interaction networks. The enormous amount of data from these experiments makes it infeasible to perform manual processing to obtain accurate and reliable results in daily routines. Advanced algorithms as well as an integrated software toolkit are needed to help perform reliable and fast data analysis. The author developed a MatlabTM based software package, called TIMDA (a Toolkit for Integrated Genotyping Microarray Data Analysis), for fully automatic, accurate and reliable genotyping microarray data analysis. The author also developed new algorithms for image processing and genotype-calling. The modular design of TIMDA allows satisfactory extensibility and maintainability. TIMDA is open source (URL: http://timda.SF.net and can be easily customized by users to meet their particular needs. The quality and reproducibility of results in image processing and genotype-calling and the ease of customization indicate that TIMDA is a useful package for genomics research

Literacy Revolution: How the New Tools of Communication Change the Stories We Tell

The transmission of culture depends upon every generation reconsidering what it means to be literate. The way we consider ourselves to be a literate species is changing, which puts us at a unique turning point in human history. Verbal literacy, or the ability to read and write, is slowly being replaced by visual literacy as a primary tool for human communication. As a culture, we tend to underestimate the creative ferment of our increasingly visual world. The linear, structured pathways of traditional literacy are shifting towards a creative and participatory pursuit of unstructured information that emphasize dimensional thinking. The acceleration and disruption of literacy in the 21st century is fueling new patterns of cognition and changing the way we tell stories. As the parent of a ten-year old son, I was perplexed to watch him resist traditional methods of literacy in favor of non-linear, visual storytelling. It seems possible that children of his generation will acquire knowledge by the process of finding information rather than learning it. Reading and writing has served us well for thousands of years and broadened the capacity for logical thought, but our dependency on writing is decreasing as we process and store knowledge in a communal capacity. As a result, the cultural authority of written language is changing along with the cultural memory that it preserves. I wanted to understand what our son might gain and lose as his reading and writing skills are slowly eclipsed by visual literacy. Human brains will continue to grow symbiotically with new technological tools, but will our imagination expand along with our intellect? The wiring of the world gives rise to new narratives, and the modern language of visual literacy provides a potent storytelling medium for the future

Metamorphosis as a narrative strategy in selected South African animated films

Abstract This study examines the notion as well as the use of metamorphosis in the animated films of selected South African artists. The analysis demonstrates how metamorphosis, as a narrative strategy, is wholly appropriate to South African animation artists whose works engage with issues which tend to surface in a country in constant flux and in which the word ‘transformation’ is part of its everyday vocabulary and collective consciousness. I bring together ideas around metamorphosis from various animation writers and link these to an eclectic selection of writers in other fields. I examine W.J.T. Mitchell’s writing on the multistable image as well as the work of neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran in order to suggest a possible explanation for the hold that metamorphosis has over its audience. I also included an alternative history of animation via the transformative, Vaudeville performances of chapeaugraphy, shadowgraphy and Quick-Change. In addition I differentiate between the digital morph as exemplified in the music video to Michael Jackson’s Black or White (1991) and the type of hand-drawn metamorphosis in the work of William Kentridge. The issue at stake here is the ability of the morph to transgress arbitrary boundaries of categorisation versus its tendency to obliterate otherness and inculcate sameness. For my case studies I examine William Kentridge’s use of metamorphosis in his Drawings for Projection and how metamorphosis is apparent not only in the transformation of one object into another, but at the level of the medium itself. Here I look at how his work is infused with metaphor through the palimpsetic traces left behind by the incomplete erasures of his technique. As a loose framework around the discussion of metaphor I look at the theories of Paul Ricoeur and the more poetic writing of Cynthia Ozick. In the on-going time lapse collaboration project Minutes by Mocke Lodewyk Jansen van Veuren and Theresa Collins I examine how both the city and our experience of time and space is transformed through time lapse animation and how this transformation enables an analysis of spatial practice that can be utilized in future urban renewal programmes. In my own work, I am interested in exploring the theme of origins. I look at genetics and cosmology as well as Deleuze’s theory of individuation and how they all seem to incorporate a kind of ‘metastable state’ of infinite potential that is similar to Eisenstein’s “plasmaticness”. As a visual idiom I use static ‘snow’ or ‘noise’ in animation, video work and drawings; conceptually harnessing the idea that static contains residual radiation left over from the birth of the universe. Static noise is the medium through which I create portraits of my father and encounter my own ‘genetic‘ self-portrait. I also analyse some of the work on physical actions by theatre theorist and director Jerzy Grotowski. From Grotowski, I have begun to understand certain performative aspects around gesture and the simultaneous portrait/self-portrait see-saw of my work

Graphomania: Composing Subjects in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction and Technology

This dissertation explores the varied phenomena of “automatic writing” in Victorian Gothic fiction, reading the genre’s fascination with the irrepressible signifying practices of the body in light of the medical, criminological and scientific discourses that underwrite the “scriptural economy” of the late nineteenth century with their own arsenal of automatic writing machines. I have titled the project Graphomania, and I consider the term a keyword of late-Victorian culture—one that names a distinctly Victorian pathology of compulsive writing, but that alludes also to the widespread epistemic hope that writing could render objectively the internal and subjective experiences of individuals. In a chapter devoted to Victorian graphomania and the three studies that follow (graphology in Jekyll and Hyde, retinal photography in The Beetle, and phonography in Dracula), the project is particularly interested in convergences and correspondences between graphical machines and human bodies. In this study, Victorian technology and Gothic literature emerge as twin registers of the divided self, joined in their shared strategy of externalizing conflicts traditionally understood as invisible processes, but also in the consequent tendency of each uncanny text to expose its ghostly remainders and excesses in the process of trying to contain them

Journal of undergraduate research and scholarly excellence

JUR publishes extraordinary undergraduate work in an easily accessible and professional peer-reviewed journal. The mission is to print outstanding undergraduate research, scholarly articles, and creative works in order to make them available to the public and connect the worldwide community of college undergraduates. http://jur.colostate.edu.Includes bibliographical references.Height variations in football shoes (cleats) for running backs and receivers may not alter ankle spatting effects in football field drills / Peyton P. Faganel, Ty C. Drake, Angela R. Dahl-Miller, ATC, David S. Senchina -- Beware thin air: altitude's influence on NBA game outcomes / Shane Moore, Jonathan Scott -- Inhibition of Human Glutaminase by 5-[3-bromo-4-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-2,3,5,6-tetrahydro-2,2-dimethylbenzo[a]phenanthridin-4(1H)-one / Paul R. West, Matthew Scholfield, Norman P. Curthoys -- From the pupil's perspective / Amanda H. Beach, Lindsay S. Leech with Tod R. Clapp -- Evaluating medical school selection criteria: are we choosing the best candidates? / Ryan Knodle -- The differentiation of radial glial cell line C6 in vitro / Kevin Christopher with Andy Cook -- The glorification of gluten-free / Kapila Pothu -- Effect of capping ligand on serum protein adsorption and cell uptake of gold nanoparticles / Catherine Kiyota and Michelle Kiyota with Christin Grabinski, Saber Hussain -- Emergence of structures and forms in complex adaptive systems in nature / Atanu Bikash Chatterjee -- Detritus, water volume, and pH in epiphytic bromeliads' central tank / Nicholas A. George -- Effects of caffeine on the growth and post-embryonic development in Manduca Sexta / Emily C. Perregaux with Nathalie Van Der Rijst, Kurt P. Vandock -- Windows & doors | Going under for the third time | My mother, I am | Shattered / Paula Giovanini-Morris -- Untitled / Frances Ritchie -- Untitled / Zachary Heil -- June 22, 2009 | Secrets | Born and raised / Adrian R. P. Brown -- Books or stories?: the changing value of social education in rural Morocco / Elena C. Robertson -- The impacts of westernization through short-term volunteer teaching in Ayutthaya, Thailand: an observational study / Elena C. Robertson -- Does race matter in international beauty pageants?: a quantitative analysis of Miss World / Selena Zhong, Rima Wilkes -- The crippling effects of labeling on the public school system / Jamie McLaughlin with Fred Ulrich -- Sovereignty and underdevelopment in China: The 1842 Treaty of Nanjing and the Unequal Treaties / Jacob R. W. Damstra -- On ice / Nicholas Kirkland -- An epiphany from one crazy time when I went to the library for the books / Elizabeth Strait.Annual

Management Development Through Cultural Diversity

This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour, as well as a corrective to the eurocentric bias of most management texts. It develops a trans-cultural perspective which draws on insights from across the world to examine different management styles, cultures and stages of business development. Contents include: * Orientation * Primal Management - Western including America * Rational Management - Northern including Scandinavia * Developmental Management - Eastern including Japan * Metaphysical Management - Southern including South Africa * Developing yourself as a manager Each section examines core management theory and literature, cultural orientation and related prominent theories. The numerous case studies use appropriate examples from a wide range of international organisations. The uniquely wide-ranging perspective make this a valuable text for all those interested in general management, international business, organisational behaviour and corporate strategy