In recent years, massive amounts of identified and unidentified facial data have become available—often publicly so—through Web 2.0 applications. So have also the infrastructure and technologies necessary to navigate through those data in real time, matching individuals across online services, independently of their knowledge or consent. In the literature on statistical re-identification [5, 6]...

An enzyme capture assay (ECA) for rapid identification of Escherichia coli in blood cultures by using beta-D-glucuronidase as a marker was developed. Microdilution plates coated with antiglucuronidase were used to capture this enzyme from the cell lysates of blood cultures which showed growth of gram-negative bacteria. The assay, using 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-glucuronide as a fluorogenic su...

The electronic identification (eID) is a digital representation of our analogue identity used for authentication in order to gain access to personalized restricted online content. Despite its limited and clearly defined scope, the eID has a unique role to play in information society as an enabler of public digital services for citizens as well as businesses and a prerequisite for the developmen...

Many languages show systematic marking for evidentiality, indicating the source of a speaker’s information, the modality by which that information was gained, and the speaker’s stance towards the veracity of the information. Among the meanings expressed through such markings are quotativity, distance, reportedness, surprise, eyevs. ear-witness, and in general any sort of “mediation” by the spea...

This paper presents a cryptanalysis of Pseudonymous Digital Signature(PDS) described in [8]. PDS proposed with respect to Pseudonymous Identification Scheme Intended to generate pseudonyms by trusted third party (usually the pseudonymity service provider) for registered users and organizations that provides on –line services. The results shows that the PDS very fast and highly secure with a com...

The Indian e-commerce market was worth 75,000 crore, in 2013, according to a joint report by KPMG and Internet and Mobile Association of India. India has the potential to double its economic contribution via Internet, from 1.6 percent GDP at present to 2.8 and 3.3 percent by 2015 [MCkensy’2012]. Indian E-commerce is most likely to generate employment for 1.45 million people in coming two years....

We describe a software book model that emulates a range of properties associated with physical books— analog page turning, visual location cues, bookmarks and annotations—and, furthermore, incorporates many advantages of digital environments—hyperlinks, multimedia, full-text search, automatic identification of synonyms, cross-referencing of key terms with an online encyclopedia, and an automati...

Public Digital Identity System (SPID) is the Italian government framework compliant with the EU eIDAS regulatory environment, aimed at implementing electronic identification and trust services in e-government and business applications. According to this federated identity management framework, digital identities are issued, upon application of the interested party, by digital identity providers...

User experiences with the digital systems including the Internet have created an expectation of instantaneous access to information, both whenever and wherever needed. eBooks have demonstrated their advantages in the areas of accessibility, functionality, and cost-effectiveness in different sectors like academic, industry, research, etc. Though the potential abilities of eBooks are proved in va...