The question whether alphanumerical category is involved in the control of attentional target selection during visual search remains a contentious issue. We tested whether category-based attentional mechanisms would guide the allocation of attention under conditions where targets were defined by a combination of alphanumerical category and a basic visual feature, and search displays could conta...

Matching keys, specifying what attributes to compare and how to compare them for identifying the same real-world entities, are found to be useful in applications like record matching, blocking and windowing [7]. Owing to the complex redundant semantics among matching keys, capturing a proper set of matching keys is highly non-trivial. Analogous to minimal/candidate keys w.r.t. functional depend...

A major emerging problem among consumer finance institutions is that customers that are not well recognized might be riskier than customers that are fully recognized. Fortunately, financial institutions count with external vendors databases that indicate the level of recognition of their customers. However, this information is normally presented as features with partial scores that must be aggr...

We present a web-based environment for the Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS). This system is designed for identification missing, unidentified and wanted persons based on dental characteristics. The web-based environment of ADIS allows users to browse through different databases from remote locations, to digitally process query dental images in order to extract the distinctive featu...

This paper presents several deterministic algorithms for selecting the kth largest record from a set of n records on any n-node hypercubic network. All of the algorithms are based on the selection algorithm of Cole and Yap, as well as on various sorting algorithms for hypercubic networks. Our fastest algorithm runs in O(lg n lg n) time, very nearly matching the trivial (lg n) lower bound. Previ...

BACKGROUND Record linkage techniques allow different data collections to be brought together to provide a wider picture of the health status of individuals. Ensuring high linkage quality is important to guarantee the quality and integrity of research. Current methods for measuring linkage quality typically focus on precision (the proportion of incorrect links), given the difficulty of measuring...

We present a newly designed polymer light-emitting diode with a bandwidth of ~350  kHz for high-speed visible light communications. Using this new polymer light-emitting diode as a transmitter, we have achieved a record transmission speed of 10  Mb/s for a polymer light-emitting diode-based optical communication system with an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technique, matching the p...

Poon, S., Poon, J., Lam, M., Lin, Q., Sze, D., Wu, J., Mok, V., Ching, J., Chan, K., Cheung, W., et al (2016). An Ensemble Approach for Record Matching in Data Linkage. In Andrew Georgiou, Louise K. Schaper and Sue Whetton (Eds.), Digital Health Innovation for Consumers, Clinicians, Connectivity and Community: Selected Papers from the 24th Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC ...

Background: Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) collect independent mortality data that could be used for assessing the quality of mortality data in national civil registration (CR) systems in lowand middle-income countries. However, the use of HDSS data for such purposes depends on the quality of record linkage between the two data sources. We describe and evaluate the quality o...