Une analyse procédurale des collisions mortelles chez les conducteurs de 16-29 ans et implications en termes de prévention : une analyse des scripts

Context and objectives. While 11% of all drivers are aged between 16 and 24, they represent 20% of all fatally injured drivers on the road network of the Province of Quebec. In collaboration with the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), this study seeks to: (1) offer a detailed description of the process (script) leading to fatal collisions involving young drivers; and (2) to recommend prevention measures. Methodology. The script perspective was used to relate the process leading to a fatal collision. The script perspective accounts for all steps that lead to the collision by focusing on: (1) all parties (the driver, friends, parents) and their actions; (2) contexts; and (3) environments. Data were collected from collision and investigation files (n=179). Descriptive and comparative analyses were then conducted to construct the script(s). Results. Results show that fatal collision scripts for 16-29 are different from scripts involving drivers of other age categories (30-59 year-old and 60 year-old and over). The typical script involves a young driver using his car to take part in leisure or festive activities. The latest often occur in a private residence, a bar or a restaurant. On site, young drivers frequently consume psychoactive substances (between 21 and 63.5% of them according to the scene of the script) and are accompanied by friends (between 18.4 and 73.9% according to the scene of the script). Friends often encourage drivers to have alcohol and/or drugs, and to adopt reckless behaviours (speeding and drinking-and-driving are respectively involved in 29.9 and 28.6% of fatal collisions). Conclusion and implications for prevention. Results suggest that fatal collisions involving young drivers could be avoided by encouraging prevention measures aimed at: (1) separating drinking and driving; (2) limiting access to alcohol and peer pressure; (3) raising awareness among potential guardians (e.g. responsible waiters, friends); and (4) increasing arrest risk.

A Writer Identification System For Handwritten Malayalam Documents

Handwriting is an acquired tool used for communication of one's observations or feelings. Factors that inuence a person's handwriting not only dependent on the individual's bio-mechanical constraints, handwriting education received, writing instrument, type of paper, background, but also factors like stress, motivation and the purpose of the handwriting. Despite the high variation in a person's handwriting, recent results from different writer identification studies have shown that it possesses sufficient individual traits to be used as an identification method. Handwriting as a behavioral biometric has had the interest of researchers for a long time. But recently it has been enjoying new interest due to an increased need and effort to deal with problems ranging from white-collar crime to terrorist threats. The identification of the writer based on a piece of handwriting is a challenging task for pattern recognition. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a text independent writer identification system for Malayalam Handwriting. The study also extends to developing a framework for online character recognition of Grantha script and Malayalam characters

k-NN based On-Line Handwritten Character recognition system

On-line handwriting recognition has been a frontier area of research for the last few decades under the purview of pattern recognition. Word processing turns to be a vexing experience even if it is with the assistance of an alphanumeric keyboard in Indian languages. A natural solution for this problem is offered through online character recognition. There is abundant literature on the handwriting recognition of western, Chinese and Japanese scripts, but there are very few related to the recognition of Indic script such as Malayalam. This paper presents an efficient Online Handwritten character Recognition System for Malayalam Characters (OHR-M) using K-NN algorithm. It would help in recognizing Malayalam text entered using pen-like devices. A novel feature extraction method, a combination of time domain features and dynamic representation of writing direction along with its curvature is used for recognizing Malayalam characters. This writer independent system gives an excellent accuracy of 98.125% with recognition time of 15-30 milliseconds

Handwritten Character Recognition of South Indian Scripts: A Review

Handwritten character recognition is always a frontier area of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing and there is a large demand for OCR on hand written documents. Even though, sufficient studies have performed in foreign scripts like Chinese, Japanese and Arabic characters, only a very few work can be traced for handwritten character recognition of Indian scripts especially for the South Indian scripts. This paper provides an overview of offline handwritten character recognition in South Indian Scripts, namely Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Telungu

Offline Handwritten Malayalam Character Recognition Based on Chain Code Histogram

Optical Character Recognition plays an important role in Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Even though ambient study had been performed on foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese, effort on Indian script is still immature. OCR in Malayalam language is more complex as it is enriched with largest number of characters among all Indian languages. The challenge of recognition of characters is even high in handwritten domain, due to the varying writing style of each individual. In this paper we propose a system for recognition of offline handwritten Malayalam vowels. The proposed method uses Chain code and Image Centroid for the purpose of extracting features and a two layer feed forward network with scaled conjugate gradient for classification

Pattern Analysis Techniques for the Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Malayalam Character Images

The objective of the study is to develop a hand written character recognition system that could recognisze all the characters in the mordern script of malayalam language at a high recognition rate

A Framework for TEI-Based Scholarly Text Editions

In this paper, we describe an interdisciplinary project in which visualization techniques were developed for and applied to scholarly work from literary studies. The aim was to bring Christof Schöch's electronic edition of Bérardier de Bataut's Essai sur le récit (1776) to the web. This edition is based on the Text Encoding Initiative's XML-based encoding scheme (TEI P5, subset TEI-Lite). This now de facto standard applies to machine-readable texts used chiefly in the humanities and social sciences. The intention of this edition is to make the edited text freely available on the web, to allow for alternative text views (here original and modern/corrected text), to ensure reader-friendly annotation and navigation, to permit on-line collaboration in encoding and annotation as well as user comments, all in an open source, generically usable, lightweight package. These aims were attained by relying on a GPL-based, public domain CMS (Drupal) and combining it with XSL-Stylesheets and Java Script.

La comunicación audiovisual y el desarrollo de las competencias básicas.

Seleccionado en la convocatoria: Ayudas a la innovación e investigación educativa en centros docentes de niveles no universitarios, Gobierno de Aragón 2009-10

Geoprocesamiento con SQL en OrbisGIS

OrbisGIS dispone de un lenguaje que permite la manipulación de datos de forma independiente al formato. Éste se ajusta al estándar SQL92 (Lenguaje de Consulta Estructurado) y se extiende espacialmente según el OGC simple features SQL specification, lo que permite un alto nivel de compatibilidad con sistemas de bases de datos tradicionales como PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Habitualmente el SQL es procesado en servidores, sin embargo este artículo presentará cómo puede aplicarse en el cliente, principalmente para la definición y utilización de geoprocesos. La aplicación del SQL más inmediata es la manipulación de las fuentes de datos especificando una serie de instrucciones o script. Aparte, la implementación de SQL de OrbisGIS permite la parametrización de estos scripts de manera que pueden ser reutilizados con diferentes fuentes de datos y sin necesidad de conocer el proceso internamente. La reutilización puede darse tanto como ejecución del script como inclusión en un constructor de modelos que permite encadenar múltiples scripts dando lugar a un nuevo proceso más complejo. Por otra parte, el uso de disparadores permite la definición de reglas de validación mediante instrucciones SQL. Es posible definir reglas topológicas (entre otras) que definan relaciones entre dos o más fuentes de datos y que controlarán el proceso de edición tanto espacial como alfanumérico. Para finalizar, la especificación de vistas (en el sentido de los SGBD) permite reducir la redundancia en los datos y realizar algunas aplicaciones interesantes como la visualización de la evolución de los distintos imperios a lo largo de la historia

Physiotherapy cervicothoracic PPIVMs

A script for a streaming video clip modelling the movements of thoracic PPIVMs as performed by a physiotherapist. Access to this clip requires an ISS username and password. Please enter in the format soton\username when prompted. Creation date: 08.02.2008 Academic year: 2007/08 Produced by: School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences Length of clip: 4 min Level: Level 2 pre-registration neuromusculoskeletal manipulation of the cervicothorax Distribution: Can be viewed by all staff and students at the University of Southampton. Requires an ISS username and password.

Class Test Generator

A combination of perl scripts and LaTeX files, this generates multiple multiple choice class tests from a single set of questions. You input a list of questions and answers into a text file. The script then produces any number of class tests that can be used, together with master answer sheets, by scrambling the order of the questions and the answers. Includes a detailed README file, but best just to try it and see.

Introduction to Matlab - a self-study tutorial

Matlab is a high level language that is very easy to use and very powerful. It comes with a wealth of libraries and toolboxes, that you can use directly, so that you don't need to program low level functions. It enables you to display results very easily on graphs and images. To get started with it, you need to understand how to manipulate and represent data, and how to find information about the available functions. During this self-study tutorial, you will learn: 1- How to start Matlab. 2- How you can find out all the information you need. 3- How to create simple vectors and matrices. 4- What functions are available and how to find them. 5- How to plot graphs of functions. 6- How to write a script. After this (should take about an hour), you will know most of what you need to know about Matlab and should definitely know how to go on learning about it on your own…

Matlab self study tutorial - Graphing

These resources are designed to support students in gaining more confidence with using Matlab. The PDFs provide guidance and information; Objectives: Introduce basic syntax and data preparation for graphing with Matlab by providing some data, examples of code and some background documents. Outcomes: -how to write an m file script -the importance of syntax -how to load files -how to produce simple graphs -where to get help and further examples There are also some data files to provide example data for students to work with in producing Matlab resources.

Análisis del contexto de oportunidades y restricciones políticas bajo el cual se ha llevado a cabo la movilización del pueblo Mapuche en Chile (2000-2010)

Monografía de grado por medio de la cual a partir de la teoría de Estructura de Oportunidades y de restricciones Políticas de Sydney Tarrow, se analiza el contexto en el que la movilización mapuche emergió durante los dos últimos gobiernos del partido socialista chileno. Para ello en un primer momento se hizo un análisis histórico de la problemática indígena hasta el restablecimiento de la democracia en 1989. Paso seguido fueron analizadas las respuestas que dieron los gobiernos de Ricardo Lagos y Michelle Bachelet a la problemática indígena y mapuche, teniendo como marco la reivindicación de derechos que les fueron planteadas a dichos gobiernos.

Group 2 - Cybercrime Video Interview

Info 2009 (Professional & Legal Issues) Coursework. A fictional interview with an Ex-Cybercriminal for the purpose of teaching users about the broad topic of cybercrime. This includes: Video Interview (2 parts) Poster Interview Script Reference List Follow the link to watch the video also hosted on youtube Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1jPNNy4iM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PufbpPe8yc&list=ULyJcmN7qVfPg&playnext=1 Credits to Mike Fisk(http://www.soul-amp.com/)for the blue globe image used.