We present here the first visual interface for a Mexican Spanish Sign Language translator on its first development stage: sign-writing recognition. The software was developed for the unique characteristics of Mexican linguistics and was designed in order to use sentences…

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A commented and updated checklist of the hoverflies from the Mascarene island of Réunion, France, is presented. A total of 22 species are listed. New data on eight species are provided, two of them new to Réunion: Syritta austeni Bezzi,…

Discusses P. B. Shelley’s attitude to Jews in the context of early nineteenth-century antisemitism, and in the light of two fragments in which Shelley speaks in the person of a contemporary Jew. First publication in the West of a little-known…

This research adds to the literature on relationship lending in the small business context by discussing the roles of entrepreneurial competence and voluntarily disclosed information as determinants of credit access. More specifically, we propose that the loan manager’s evaluation of…

Whiteness is often detached from the notion of diaspora in the recent flurry of interest in the phenomenon, yet it is a key feature of some of the largest and oldest displacements. This paper explores the specific contexts of white…

It is clear that we are at a point of crisis
and transformation. In her introduction
to the articles of this issue, Bronwen Rees
suggests that not only will we need to
challenge basic assumptions in science,
but that the…

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: The potential of parasitoid Hymenoptera as bioindicators of arthropod diversity in agricultural grasslands 2011, 48 (2):382 Journal of Applied Ecology, which has been published in final form at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01937.x, 1. As…

We report on an ~63 ks Chandra observation of the X-ray transient Swift J195509.6+261406 discovered as the afterglow of what was first believed to be a long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB 070610). The outburst of this source was characterized by unique…

SGR 0418+5729 is a transient soft gamma-ray repeater which underwent a major outburst in 2009 June, during which the emission of short bursts was observed. Its properties appeared quite typical of other sources of the same class until long-term X-ray…