In the application of the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), some fingerprint images are noisy and corrupted. In such situation, an effectively enhancement algorithm to improve the clarity of the ridge structure is necessary. The available enhancement algorithms are based on either the local orientation field filtering scheme in space domain or the Gabor filtering scheme in the...

Nowadays E-tailing has grown tremendously fast, which bring intensive competition in online business. E-tailers pay more attention to website management to acquire and retain customers. Information quality of website is vital to gaining and increasing customer loyalty in online market. This study validates that information quality has direct effect on customer satisfaction, and it investigates ...

Clinical mobility assessment is traditionally performed in laboratories using complex and expensive equipment. The low accessibility to such equipment, combined with the emerging trend to assess mobility in a free-living environment, creates a need for body-worn sensors (e.g., inertial measurement units-IMUs) that are capable of measuring the complexity in motor performance using meaningful mea...

This paper analyzes the effects of market orientation from two perspectives. First, its direct influences on tourist agencies’ perceived performance, and its indirect ones on performance through the perceived value of market information. Second, direct effects on the perceived service quality offered by the firm and indirect influences derived from the utilization of quality measurement systems...

As service orientation is gaining more and more momentum, the need for common concepts regarding Quality of Service (QoS) and its specification emerges. In recent years numerous approaches to specifying QoS were developed for special subjects like multimedia applications or middleware for distributed systems. However, a survey of existing approaches regarding their contribution to service orien...

Sleep is well known to have a significant impact on learning and memory. Specifically, studies adopting an experimentally induced sleep loss protocol in healthy individuals have provided evidence that the consolidation of spatial memories, as acquired through navigating and orienteering in spatial surroundings, is negatively affected by total sleep loss. Here, we used both objective and subject...