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Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process based Template Data Analysis of Multimodal Biometric Conceptual Designs
No full textAbstractThe Biometric Systems are automatic tools, which are used to provide authentication during various applications of modern computing. Traditional methods of human recognition because of their limitations are being replaced by biometric applications. Fingerprint biometric system is one of the most widely used system while Hand geometry is comparatively less popular because of its few limitations. Multimodal biometric systems are developed to address few of the limitations of unibiometric systems and works on the principle of using more than one biometric trait for human recognition. In this paper, three conceptual designs for bimodal systems using two important modalities have been presented. A Template security analysis of all the designs is performed using Fuzzy based Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) with five decision parameters. Result indicates that bimodal conceptual design-2 is optimal among all the three in terms of various decision parameters. Template may be well secured at feature level fusion of a multimodal biometric system and results into overall cost effective design. It is also noticed that template security before storage into database is an important parameter for effective and efficient design of a multimodal biometric system
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A multi-layer perceptron based improved thyroid disease prediction system
No full textA challenging task for the medical science is to achieve the accurate diagnosis of diseases prior to its treatment. A pattern classifier is used for solving complex and non-separable computing problems in different fields like biochemical analysis, image processing and chemical analysis etc .The accuracy for thyroid diagnosis system may be improved by considering few additional attributes like heredity ,age, anti-bodies etc. In this paper, a thyroid disease prediction system is developed using multilayer perceptron (MLP). The proposed system uses 7–11 attributes of individuals to classify them in normal, hyperthyroid and hypothyroid classes. The proposed model uses gradient descent backpropogation algorithm for training the multilayer perceptron using dataset of 120 subjects. The thyroid prediction system promises excellent overall accuracy of ~100% for 11 attributes. However, the system results in a lower accuracy of 66.7% using 11 attributes and 70% using 7 attributes with 30 subjects
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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