Character Segmentation System Based on C# Design and Implementation

AbstractAt present, most of the OCR recognizing through individual character, thus the quality of character segmentation is the key point to affect the quality of OCR recognition system. This paper introduces the formula of projective method in analysis of preliminary segmentation for images. Moreover it applied analysis for connected spatial domain, the correct results shows that writing image well matched. After two analyses and segmentation, characters can be segmented correctly. In order to provide useful solutions to these two problems that characters keying must be performed rapidly and documents digitizing can be conserved for a long time. Therefore, we must place emphasis on the research and development of the character segmentation

Frontier Tibet

Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People's Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier. The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham's own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies

Frontier Tibet

Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People’s Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier. The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham’s own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies

Stones, demons, medicinal herbs, and the market: Ethnic medicine and industrial aspirations among the Qiang of Western Sichuan

In global health it is commonly assumed that governments orchestrate a benevolent integration of “traditional medicine” into health systems and markets, through national policies and regulation, as in WHO’s “Traditional Medicine Strategy”. In China, rather than state orchestration, it is a healthcare market of products and services, operating within a nation-building framework, that shape “traditional medicine”. Furthermore, it is the country’s interests in developing materia medica for its domestic and export markets that are behind their long-lasting steering of the WHO’s strategy. In this thesis, I draw on my multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork to document how this development is unfolding among people of the Qiang (Ch’iang) minority in China. I show the attempts of city and town dwelling Qiang practitioners, academics, government officials and members of the pharmaceutical industry to standardise medicinal herbs and compound medicines, as well as to systematise disputed medical theories and practices. I argue that they do this, in order to articulate “Qiang medicine” as a discipline and “Qiang medicines” as products. I then contrast these efforts with the afflictions and choices of care among Qiang villagers, for whom “Qiang medicine” emerges as a foreign concept. What becomes evident is that differences in the desire and legitimacy to articulate “Qiang medicine” relate to diverging personal aspirations, professional connections and living milieus. Thus, I argue that the WHO “Traditional Medicine Strategy” and China’s “Chinese Medicine Law” predominantly favour the agendas of urban dwelling actors. These attempt to articulate “traditional” ethnic medicine and medicines by mirroring a scientised and state-sponsored contemporary Chinese medicine, for markets that are ultimately destined to cater for an ethnic Han majority. Ethnicity and medicine thus converge to serve a particular market dynamic. Such healthcare marketisation is embedded in a socio-political context that is specific to China, but relevant worldwide

Agricultural Trajectories in Yunnan, Southwest China: a comparative analysis of archaeobotanical remains from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age

This dissertation investigates the emergence and development of agricultural practices in the southwest Chinese province of Yunnan, between the 3rd and 1st millennia BC. Drawing from previously unstudied archaeobotanical remains from the sites of Baiyangcun, Haimenkou, and Dayingzhuang; this research analyses compositional and chronological changes in the crop assemblage from each site. These sites are located in the strategic region of sanjiang, at the crossroads of three main Asian rivers: Yangzi, Mekong, and Salween. Local and regional developments of agricultural systems are explored through the comparison of these new material with other published datasets from Yunnan, the surrounding provinces of Sichuan, Tibet, Chongqing, Guangxi, and mainland Southeast Asian countries. The main research questions addressed in this dissertation are: -What was the basis of early agriculture in Yunnan? -Given that the first attested agricultural systems in Southwest China appear 3000 to 2000-years later than those associated with domestication centres in North China and along the Yangzi River, to what extent can agricultural practices in Yunnan be derived entirely from migrating farmers, or did adoption (acculturation) by local forager populations play a role? -What role did native wild plants play in Yunnan Neolithic and Post-Neolithic subsistence, and were there any local processes of domestication underway? -With regards to rice, what was the ecology of rice cultivation? Did this differ either from source regions along the Yangzi, or from the early systems in Southeast Asia, which have sometimes been suggested to have origins in Yunnan? The results contained in this thesis provide archaeological evidence that was until now lacking to evaluate the validity of the language/farming dispersal hypothesis in the context of the Austroasiatic languages dispersal, as well as laying an important archaeological and chronological framework for studying of the emergence of a settled agricultural lifestyle in Yunnan

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1883

48-1Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. [2246] Research related to the Indians; Indian phonology; etc.1884-21

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1883

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. [2246] Research related to the Indians; Indian phonology; etc

Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia

Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia presents the major achievements in the scientific fields of water supply technologies and management throughout the millennia. It provides valuable insights into ancient water supply technologies with their apparent characteristics of durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability. A comparison of the water technological developments in several civilizations is undertaken. These technologies are the underpinning of modern achievements in water engineering and management practices. Naturally, intensification of unresolved problems led societies to revisit the past and to reinvestigate the successful past achievements. To their surprise, those who attempted this retrospect, based on archaeological, historical, and technical evidence were impressed by two things: the similarity of principles with present ones and the advanced level of water engineering and management practices