Abstract: The authors present a model of the process of designing documents. The model can he used as a joh aid for writers and as a framework for testing document design principles. The final step in this model is evaluation — testing how easily readers can understand and use the document. They then describe an audience-centered evaluation in which a traditional bureaucratic document was compared with a shortened,reorganized, and rewritten version. Subjects using the revised document answered more questions correctly, were significantly better in identifying the correct section, took less time to answer questions, and rated the revised document as much easier to use.

Abstract: The first section of this article describes the quality of the home environment of some 200 families and identifies 4 dimensions useful in characterizing home environments. The second section relat...

Abstract: In a text-production system high and special demands are placed on the grammar and the lexicon. This paper will view these components in such a system (overview in section 1). First, the subcomponents dealing with semantic information and with syntactic information will be presented separately (section 2). The problems of relating these two types of information are then identified (section 3). Finally, strategies designed to meet the problems are proposed and discussed (section 4). One of the issues that will be illustrated is what happens when a systemic linguistic approach is combined with a KL-ONE like knowledge representation - a novel and hitherto unexplored combination.

Abstract: In a figure recognizing system according to the invention comprising a scanning section, a detecting section, thesauruses, a similarity computing section, a storage register for storing detected information from the detecting section and a recognizing section for recognizing the final letter information, threshold table means in which letter combinations and corresponding threshold levels are stored as pairs, a category judgement section for receiving the output of the similarity computing section, obtaining a similarity difference from the maximum and next maximum similarity values and comparing the similarity difference thus obtained and a corresponding threshold level in the threshold table means to judge the category of said letter, format table means where a predetermined category series is stored, and format judging means for comparing the category supplied from the detecting section and category judgement section connected thereto and the category series supplied from the format table means.

Abstract: This new edition includes material on Joyce's distinctive view of femininity and a greatly expanded treatment of Finnegan's Wake. The first section outlines the biographical and cultural background, the second offers a detailed critical survey of three major works, including Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and the third section provides valuable reference material.

Abstract: This paper attempts to establish a structural relationship between the kinship regimes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) and Eastern Chou (770-221 B.C.) dynasties of ancient China as they have been described in the works of P. H. Liu and Y. F. Ruey respectively. At present, the findings of Liu and Ruey stand as isolated analyses of the kinship regimes of two dynasties separated in time by some 500-600 years. Recognition of the structural relation between them not only lends credence to the arguments of both anthropologists, but also reveals a fairly clear instance of transition between elementary and complex structures of kinship. This finding is seen to have important implications for appreciating ancient Chinese historiography in a new light as well as for revising Levi-Strauss's grand theorizing concerning the spatial distribution of systems of generalized and restricted exchange.

Abstract: PURPOSE:To increase the read-accuracy of character printed or described on the document, by the binarization with different binary system depending on the subset of characters and making the identification of the characters after that. CONSTITUTION:The document 1 is scanned and in photoelectric conversion at the scanning section 4, the video signal from the section 4 is binarized at the preprocessing section 5 and identified for the type of character at the identification section 6, and the control section 7 makes entire control. When the character printed or described in the read-in area of the document 1 is read in, it is scanned at the scanning section 4 and converted into video signal. When the preprocessing section 5 produces binary character pattern from this signal, it receives the information relating to the document from the section 7 and makes binarization in the binary system for English letter, allowing to judge the type of character at the section 6. Further, when the character printed or described in the read-in area 3 is readout, it similarly receives the information relating to the document from the section 7 to make binary with the binary system for numerals, allowing to judge the type of character.

Abstract: It became apparent during two exchange visits to the Soviet Union in 1978 and 19791 that the only major English summaries of the Aeneolithic and Bronze Age remains from Central Asia2 were dated and did not include adequate descriptions of major discoveries, such as the Murghab Delta sites. An immediate solution to this problem suggested itself: a collection of translated articles which both presented the latest discoveries in the area and illustrated current techniques and methods of analysis used by Soviet archeologists. In December 1978 I discussed the idea of such a publication with V. M. Masson, Director of the Central Asia and Caucasus Section of the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Archeology, USSR Academy of Sciences, who agreed that such a publication was needed. He kindly provided me with a list of articles that he considered representative of current work in southern Central Asia.3 Although several articles were commissioned especially for this volume and every attempt was made to present th...

Abstract: PURPOSE:To make a recording in correct order, without missing and duplication at restart when jam takes place in a printer, by providing the 1st and 2nd page memories to reproduce picture information to the 1st control section. CONSTITUTION:Picture information displayed with a code is generated at a magnetic tape MT according to the control of the main control section and applied to the 1st control section 102' via an interface 101, a data selector 203 is selector 203 is selected by taking the picture information as page unit and the picture information is stored in the 1st and 2nd page storage device 204 and 204'. The picture information is converted into dot patterns for recording at a character generator 109 and the output signal 303S is recorded on a printer. The device 109 and the printer are controlled with the 2nd control section 105' and the control section 105' and the 1st contol section 102' are connected. When jam takes place in the printer, the 1st control section the data is applied to the control section 105' to obtain a recording in correct order at restart.

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe the video graphic query facility's database design in terms of the query capabilities it orchestrates. The next section of the paper discusses the background and capabilities to be provided by the video graphic query facility. Section III describes the multi-media database underlying the facility and section IV summarizes what we believe to be a new database application.

Abstract: The key to the correlation of the chronologies for the antediluvian heroes in the biblical and Mesopotamian texts is found in the peculiar system of numeration among the Sumerians. Scribal confusio...

Abstract: PURPOSE:To automatically perform correct Kanji-Kana (Chinese character-Japanese syllabary) conversion through the retrieval from a code conversion section, by providing the code conversion section performing the conversion between Kanas easily in error and the basic Kanas, and performing retrieves again, if corresponding Kanji and phrases are not present even through the retrieval of the dictionary memory section. CONSTITUTION:Kana series input is temporarily stored in a temporary memory section 1, Kanjis and phrases corresponding to a number of Kana series are stored in a dictionary memory section 5, and the retrieval of the section 5 is made at indexing control section 3 with the content of the temporary storage section 1. Further, the conversion code which convert Kanas easily in error and the basic Kanas is stored in the conversion table memory section 6. The conversion sections 2, 4 connected to the section 3 are connected to the conversion section 6. Further, the memory section 5 is retrieved with the control of the section 3, and if Kanjis and phrases corresponding to the Kana series of the temporary section 1 are not present, the Kana series in the section 1 is fed to the section 6 to convert the Kanas easily in error into the basic Kanas, and the section 5 is retrieved with the converted Kana series, allowing automatic and correct Kana-Kanji conversion.

Abstract: The author makes a case for the placement of Guidance and counselling in a whole section of the revised edition of the policy and outlines the content for such a proposed section.

Abstract: Part 1 The poet and his setting: chronological table Hopkins' life religious background literary background. Part 2 Critical survey. Part 3 Reference section.

Abstract: PURPOSE:To realize the one-touch input by light pen as well as facilitate the operation skill and reduce the misoperation by incorporating the section of the characters on the board surface, the input code section of the characters outside the board surface and the function code section each. CONSTITUTION:Character board A is divided into board surface character section (a), function code section (b) where the connection is secured between the light pen type perforator used on board A and the photocomposing machine of the electronic computer; input code section (c) for the characters outside the board surface which is related to the characters or the symbols which cannot be stored in section (a); and operation key section (d) which has relation with the operation of the perforator each. In section (a), the spaces of the 1st Chinese character sections 1-4 where the Chinese characters are arranged in alphabetical order or in the order of the Katakana syllabary (Japanese syllabary in square form) and based on the Chinese character arrangement on the character board of the Japanese typewriter are equivalent to 2,040 letters in all. But the number of characters stored actually is about 1,940 in case the headwords are arranged regardless of the output in order to facilitate an easy retrieval. And in the 2nd Chinese character section 15, the characters with consideration given to their using frequency are stored among the characters which corresponds to the space types of the Japanese typewriter.

Abstract: PURPOSE: To pachieve common accessing to a plurality of types of display devices, by providing a data processing section and an input/output controlling section corresponding to the types of a display device to be used and enabling to select them automatically. CONSTITUTION: In correspondence to display devices 21W24 to be used, input/ output controlling sections 17W20 and data processing sections 12W15 are provided and a means to select a specific section is provided. A medium 1 used for the means is a data input section and a device discriminating section 3 is used to transmit a code number indicating the types of the display devices. An open processing section 4 discriminates the display device which is in use and states the use of a processing data section 8 and indicates the attribute of the data of the data section 8 and transmits it to an initial/end processing section 10. A close processing section 5 makes indication that the data section 8 is no more used. COPYRIGHT: (C)1982,JPO&Japio

Abstract: PURPOSE:To reduce the idle time of a character recognition section and to increase the document processing ability, by using a character pattern memory section which can store the character pattern for a plurality of rows. CONSTITUTION:The photoelectric conversion section 1 makes photoelectric conversion in one row unit for the character stored on the document. The character pattern for one row's unit is quantized in the quantization circuit, and reprocessing is made at the preprocessor 3. Next, it is fed to the multiplexer 4A and fetched to the line buffers 5A-5C one by one row with the control of the recognition control section 7. Further, in parallel with the operation, the multiplexer 4B is operated with the control section 7 and the buffer 5A is connected to the character recognition section 6. As a result, the character pattern in the buffer 5A is fetched to the section 6. Thus, the recognition for one row is made, and if rejection of read-in is taken place, the pattern for read-in rejection character is fed to the external device 8 via the multiplexer 4B and the control section 7. Further, the transfer of the character recognition for n-th row and the character pattern for (n-1)-th row, are processed at the same time in parallel.

Abstract: The interpretation of section 51 (xxxviii) of the Commonwealth Constitution is examined. After considering the characterisation problems presented by the section and the effect of constitutional limits, the categories of laws that could be passed pursuant to the section are suggested.