Abstract: Contents Foreword Introduction SECTION I - ASN.1 OVERVIEW Chapter 1 Specification of protocols Chapter 2 Introduction to ASN.1 Chapter 3 Structuring an ASN.1 specification Chapter 4 The basic data types and construction mechanisms - closure Chapter 5 Reference to more complex areas Chapter 6 Using an ASN.1 compiler Chapter 7 Management and design issues for ASN.1 specification and implementation SECTION II - FURTHER DETAILS Chapter 1 The object identifier type Chapter 2 The character string types Chapter 3 Subtyping Chapter 4 Tagging Chapter 5 Extensibility, Exceptions, and Version Brackets Chapter 6 Information Object Classes, Constraints, and Parameterization Chapter 7 More on classes, constraints, and parameterization SECTION III - ENCODINGS Chapter 1 Introduction to encoding rules Chapter 2 The Basic Encoding Rules Chapter 3 The Packed Encoding Rules Chapter 4 Other ASN.1-related encoding rules SECTION IV - HISTORY AND APPLICATIONS Chapter 1 The development of ASN.1 Chapter 2 Applications of ASN.1 APPENDICES 1 The Wineco protocol scenario 2 The full protocol for Wineco 3 Compiler output for C support for the Wineco protocol 4 Compiler output for Java support for the Wineco protocol 5 ASN.1 resources via the Web INDEX

Abstract: PART I: THE BULK OF THE BOOK CONSISTS OF A JANUARY-DECEMBER LISTING, DIVIDED BY MONTH AND THEN BY DAY. EACH MONTH BEGINS WITH INFORMATION, FOR EXAMPLE ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME AND QUOTATIONS, DEALING WITH THE MONTH IN GENERAL, AND EACH DAY CONTAINS INFORMATION ON HOLIDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES, SAINTS AND THEIR LEGENDS, HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CUSTOMS, AND RELEVANT QUOTATIONS FROM HISTORICAL AND MODERN TEXTS. PART I ENDS WITH A DISCUSSION OF SEASONS, MONTHS, TERMS, WEEKS, AND DAYS IN GENERAL, A SECTION ON THE WESTERN CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH YEARS, AND FINALLY SECULAR HOLIDAYS NOT TIED TO A SPECIFIC DAY (E.G. THANKSGIVING). PART II: A MORE TECHNICAL SECTION ON CALENDARS, THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS THE WORLD, AND CHRONOLOGY, INCLUDING COMPUTUS.

Abstract: A text input section (1) divides an inputted text into sentences and attaches a number to each of the sentences, which is stored in a text data base together with the number. An important word recognizing section (2) generates a list of important words for each sentence to store it in a storing section (8). An important word weighting section (3) weights each important word. A relation degree computing section (4) computes a relation degree between an attention sentence and a precedent sentence. An important degree computing section (5) computes an importance degree of each attention sentence. A tree structure determining section (6) determines a parent sentence of the attention sentence and determines a tree structure of the inputted text. Unlike the case of determining whether or not character strings of key words are merely coincident with each other, it is possible to determine a parent sentence of each sentence based on a degree of connection between two sentences and analyze a structure of the inputted text with high accuracy according to the above construction.

Abstract: A content-based video story browsing system is disclosed including setting and representing relations between objects and places of the story. A content-based video story browsing system includes the steps of selecting objects and places as factors organizing contents of a video story and setting a relational graph relating the objects to corresponding places; setting a video story section and a representative scene as an events of contents development corresponding to the relations of the objects and the places; and displaying the video story section and the representative scene and its contents as browsing information corresponding to the relation selected from the relational graph.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing user access to help and settings control in a system for viewing electronic books includes single document integrating help features and settings controls may be accessed in a single-window or single page viewing environment. The help and settings document may be accessed from a number of different contexts, including a library page or from within a book. “Smart” navigational features are provided for predicting a part, section or chapter of the help and settings document that is sought by a user based on navigational history and user profiles. Feedback as to the accuracy of predictions made by the “smart” navigation is also provided.

Abstract: The colors used in an image inputted through an image input section are recognized, and thereby the ratio of mixed color components of an image to be outputted is determined. According to the ratio, the color components are mixed, and the input image is converted to a monochromatic image, which is then outputted. A composite image comprising characters, a line drawing, and a halftone image is contracted by contracting the pseudo-density region, the character/line drawing region, and the other regions separately by different methods so as to avoid moire, and the contracted image is outputted. A top/back image inputted through the input section is reversed by an image reversing section, the positional relationship is recognized, and the image is corrected to prevent reversal printing. Then the image is reversed again and outputted. The images on consecutive pages out of the images inputted page by page are aligned with each other by a page contour detecting section, a page content region extracting section, tilt correcting section, page position correcting section, and a page information processing section, and outputted from an image output section.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically determine layout in accordance with the degree of importance of video and to display the video by utilizing subject to be photographed information and/or event information. SOLUTION: This device 10 is provided with a subject to be photographed information control section 13, which controls subject to be photographed information that includes the corresponding relationship between a subject to be photographed existing in a space being photographed and the degree of importance of the subject to be photographed representing the degree of importance of the subject, a video degree of importance computing section 15, which computes the video degree of importance to represent the degree of importance of the video based on the subject to be photographed information controlled by the section 13, a video information obtaining section 12, which obtains the information of the video photographed space as video information, a display control section 16, which controls the display of the video represented by the video information taken by the section 12 based on at least the video degree of importance computed by the section 15, and a display section 17 which displays the video in accordance with the control of the section 16.

Abstract: Download this article . Emmanuelle de Champs took the MA in Legal and Political Theory at University College London in 1998, and was awarded a Distinction. She is currently in her second year of doctoral study at the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), within the department of English Studies, in the 'history of political thought' section.

Abstract: A contents addressable memory circuit includes an inputting section, a contents addressable memory section and a control section. The inputting section divides an input data into n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) data blocks and supplies the n data blocks and an input address. The contents addressable memory section performs a data retrieving operation in units of data blocks to output addresses and coincidence flags corresponding to the data blocks. The coincidence flag is indicative of whether there is a data coincident with the corresponding data block. The control section outputs one of the outputted addresses based on the outputted addresses and the coincidence flags.

Abstract: This collection of original essays examines and celebrates Fiedler's extraordinary contribution to the national conversation. Divided into three sections, the first section includes an interview with Fiedler himself, while the second section consists of critical analyses of Fiedler's varied work. The third section offers personal tributes from notables including John Barth.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus with a scanner for reading image information from a document. The image forming apparatus includes a scanner section, an image forming section, a sheet discharging section, a sheet stacking section, a sheet finishing section, and a relaying section. The scanner section is configured to read image information of a document that can then be formed into an image in the image forming section. Exemplary options include an image forming apparatus with a scanner mounted on the apparatus body above the image forming section.

Abstract: Introduction The codification of English usage, not by an official academy but by a disparate band of independent entrepreneurs, constitutes the story of this chapter. It is a story of increasing knowledge about language in general and English in particular, of competition between prescriptive and descriptive ideals of grammar and lexicography in the market-place and of a shifting role for the place of speech and writing in codifying the language. It is also a story of the influence of piety, morality, discipline and social politics on the evaluation of English usage as the language was codified and the codifications disseminated over the last two centuries. The focus throughout is on Britain, but the interactions between Britons and Americans and the intertwined scholarship and international markets for English-language grammars and dictionaries make a tidy separation of the British and American stories impracticable. Following section 6.1, the discussion is divided into three periods. Section 6.2 concentrates on the years roughly from the mid-eighteenth century to the introduction of comparative historical linguistics into Britain around 1830, section 6.3 the period from 1830 to 1930 so as to encompass the entire scope of planning and producing the Oxford English Dictionary , and section 6.4 the span from the completion of the OED to the close of the millennium. The chronological subdivisions are somewhat arbitrary in that the patterns examined do not start or end on particular dates, but the periods serve as convenient frames for focusing on notable trends. Section 6.5 offers some conclusions and prospects. (American views of grammar and usage are reported in volume VI.)

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image-forming device to consume a minimum anount of toner where a required minimum processing is limited to paste an entire image or to add a special mark to the entire image. SOLUTION: An image-processing section 152 applies a color conversion processing or the like to received image data R, G, B to covert the data into Y, M, C, K and stores the data in a memory section 154. An image recognition section 151 recognizes whether or not an input image is from a specific original, on the basis of the received image data R, G, B. A discrimination threshold setting section 153 sets discrimination threshold data S41, a data replacement section 155 replaces the image data from the memory section 154 0(h). A discrimination section 156 discriminates whether or not a copy prevention operation is sufficient based on the image data from the memory section 154, and only when the copy prevention operation is insufficient, does a data superposing section 157 apply additional copy prevention processing such as paste of the entire image or addition of a specific mark to the image data from the data replacement section 155.

Abstract: Abstract In this section we shall discuss a few applications of direct methods to some significant examples with the aim of illustrating the existence and regularity results of the previous sections.

Abstract: Section 1 What is play History and theory of play Play today Section 2 - Planning Section 3 - The Early Years curriculum

Abstract: A radio selective calling receiver includes a message storage section, display section, memory, and automatic display control section. The message storage section stores all, received messages and date/time information of reception of the messages in correspondence with designated selective calling numbers. The display section displays a message stored in the message storage section. The memory stores at least a display start time of a message for each selective calling number. The automatic display control section reads out a latest received message from the message storage section at the display start time stored in the memory in accordance with the date/time information, and outputting the message to the display section.

Abstract: Abstract Were Aristotle’s logical writings known to the early Stoic logicians, and did Aristotle’s logical ideas have any influence on the development of Stoic logic? The evidence which bears on this question is perplexing: there are numerous pertinent texts which favour an affirmative answer; yet as we approach them they seem, like so many will-o’-the-wisps, to retreat-and we are stumbling in a treacherous marsh.But the question is not without its fascination, in as much as it concerns the historical relations between two magnificent monuments to Greek philosophical acumen; and it may stand some discussion. Section I presents some general ruminations. Section II deals with the preliminary question of whether the Stoics could in principle have read Aristotle. Section III assembles a sample of the evidence which suggests that the Stoics did in fact read and study their Aristotle. And the remaining sections try to assess the value of this evidence.

Abstract: A plurality of icon data and keywords respectively corresponding to the icon data are stored in an icon data storage section. Matching between the data input by the data input section and a keyword stored in the icon data storage section is detected. Icon data stored in the icon data storage section in correspondence with a keyword which is detected to match the data input by the data input section is added to the input data, and the obtained data is displayed.

Abstract: The Debates, Notes and Queries section provides an opportunity for evaluation-related issues to be debated as well as for more genera! interchange. Debates can take the form of sustained arguments by the advocates of different approaches or of briefer thoughts or notes. Contributors may also wish to comment and raise questions about material that has previously appeared in the journal or simply use the section to draw readers' attention to relevant issues, ongoing research, evaluation activities and other events.

Abstract: EDITORIAL COMMENTThis new section of the journal has been added to provide readers with a broader contact with specific information. In many cases, information which is of interest to the reader but does not conform to the strict peer review guidelines is available. We welcome submissions from our readers with opinions, ideas, or essays that are of interest to the readers of Foot & Ankle International.Lowell D. Lutter, M.D.Editor-in-ChiefFoot & Ankle International

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a manipulator and a transmitter which are adaptive even to the data of an electronic program guide (an EPG) that includes new words. SOLUTION: After the received EPG data are sorted for every item, a reading section 7 reads the data while referring to a KANJI (Chinese character)/KANA (Japanese syllabary) converting section 15. A dictionary updating section 8 registers a word and its reading as a pair into a dictionary 9. Moreover, a registered word deleting section 14 deletes old registered data. Thus, speech recognition is conducted by utilizing the dictionary 9 reflecting the latest EPG data.

Abstract: An access-right setting system for setting right to access resources on a computer, comprises an access-right setting pattern storage section (24) for storing one or more types of access-right setting patterns in which at least an object to obtain permission to access the resources is written, and a selecting section (21) for selecting any one of the access-right setting patterns to set the right to access.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multimedia information processing unit that automatically arranges image information, depending on an acquired time and position and that exhibits the arranged information. SOLUTION: An image acquisition section 1 acquires image information of a still image or a dynamic image, a comment section 2 enters a graphic, sound and a hand-written memo to be attached to the image information acquired by the image acquisition section 1 as comments, a time counter section 3 counts the time when the image acquisition section 1 acquires the image information. Furthermore, a multimedia compatible storage section 4 stores the image information acquired by this image acquisition section 1, the comments entered by the comment section 2, and the time counted by the time counter section 3 in cross-reference with each other. Then an arrangement exhibit section 5 arranges the image information and the comments stored in the multimedia compatible storage section 4, depending on the time stored in cross-reference with the image information and the comments and exhibits the arranged information and comments.

Abstract: Disclosed is an audio reproduction apparatus for reproducing music information recorded on a digital disk. This apparatus includes a rotatable body, a detection section for detecting a rotational state of the rotatable body, and a processing section for processing the music information to be reproduced in accordance with the rotational state detected by the detection section.

Abstract: I wish to argue primarily that Propertius 2.12 introduced the poet's original third book, ‘Book 2b’, (Section III). On the way I examine Propertius' use of his various addressees (Section I), and I discuss strategies in his indisputably introductory poem 1.1 (Section II). Similarities of strategy discernible in 2.12 head my argument that 2.12 was like 1.1 an introductory poem. The question of addressees in introductory poems raises the topic of Propertius' social status and his relations to great men, and this is briefly surveyed.

Abstract: A method for creating dictation macros, comprising the steps of: storing a selected text string; displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) for naming a dictation macro responsive to a first user command, the GUI having a section for naming the macro; creating a baseform for a macro name entered into the section of the GUI responsive to a second user command; and, associating the macro name with the stored selected text string as a the dictation macro. A method for creating dictation macros in a speech application, comprising the steps of: creating a text string; selecting the text string; invoking a first user command for the speech application to create a dictation macro; naming the dictation macro; and, invoking a second user command for the speech application to create a baseform for the macro name and associate the macro name with the selected text string as the dictation macro.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, the minimum amount of resources required to execute jobs is registered for each job type in a required-amount-of-resources management table In response to a request from a job control section, a resource management section dynamically changes the amount of resources to be allocated to a job at the time of execution of the job, so as to correspond to the priority of the job

Abstract: A game apparatus for causing a player's character controlled by a player to fight against an enemy character within a predetermined game space. The game apparatus includes a storage section for storing data of items held by the respective characters, an item computing section and a character reviving section for reviving a defeated character within the game space under a predetermined condition. The item computing section selects prize items from items held by the defeated character in accordance with a predetermined rule and displays the prize items on a display means. The item computing section adds the prize items to items held by a character who acquires said prize item, subtracts the prize items from items held by the defeated character in accordance with a predetermined rule, and updating the data of items in the storage section according to the results of addition and subtraction.