We are constantly under the rays of spectator’s eyes, an inevitable consequence modern urban life with high demand for rhetoric safety and security disguise omnipresent surveillance systems. Expanding from contributing author Sophia-Rose Diodati’s spatial analysis “affect arrays” racialized bodies, this response aims to situate alongside nineteenth-century Iranian palatial towers in order highl...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining in popularity and sophistication today’s modern world. UAVs now available a wide range of configurations. A UAV’s many applications include photography videography target tracking. The upward-pointing propellers some fixed-wing make it possible for them to take off land vertically. Surveillance intruder inspections two areas where the blended wing bod...

BACKGROUND The science of syndromic surveillance is still very much in its infancy. While a number of syndromic surveillance systems are being evaluated in the US, very few have had success thus far in predicting an infectious disease event. Furthermore, to date, the majority of syndromic surveillance systems have been based primarily in emergency department settings, with varying levels of enh...

Background: Success of infection treatment depends on the availability of accurate, reliable, and comprehensive data, information, and knowledge at the point of therapeutic decision-making. The identification of a national minimum data set will support the development and implementation of an effective surveillance system. The goal of this study was to develop a national antimicrobial resistanc...

Prison facilities, mental correctional institutions, sports bars and places of public protest are prone to sudden violence and conflicts. Surveillance systems play an important role in mitigation of hostile behavior and improvement of security by detecting such provocative and aggressive activities. This research proposed using automatic aggressive behavior and anger detection to improve the ef...

Poliomyelitis is one of few diseases that can be eradicated. The virus cannot survive outside the body and effective vaccine is available to protect children and stop transmission. Today, there are 3 million children each year saved by the oral polio vaccine (OPV) and globally the reported cases have declined from 50,000 to 7,000 in 1999. At present, 20 countries may remain at risk of continued...

clinical research usually involves patients with a certain disease or a condition. the generalizability of clinical research findings is based on multiple factors related to the internal and external validity of the research methods. the main methodological issue that influences the generalizability of clinical research findings is the sampling method. in this educational article, we are explai...

This paper describes a human body-part detection system using a vertical laser scan. From a stationary Hokuyo laser range-finder, a scan is taken of the frontview of a human subject, where the scan falls on one side of their body to include the leg. As the subject walks towards the laser, the scan data is autonomously broken up into five body segments and the information compacted into feature ...

In response to the increasingly quotidian, even banal character of surveillant practices in postindustrial societies, this article explores the possibility of a theoretical and methodological re-alignment in surveillance studies. This re-alignment entails a move from broadly Foucauldian, macro-level, structural or poststructural analyses, to the existential–phenomenological study of subjective ...