In this paper, we present a description of research-inprogress into the organizational contexts and interorganizational relationships which generate demand for online information (Or) resources. Researchers who examine the use of OI resources have found that people don’t use online information as often as providers generally expect. But some organizations use these resources intensively within ...

Due to the uniqueness and persistent properties of the biometric fingerprint characteristics, large scale in border control and governmental applications such as the Aadhaar project in India, the Visa Information System (VIS) in Europe and US-VISIT / IDENT system in the USA are based on fingerprint recognition and generally contain millions of fingerprint samples. The study of fingerprint index...

In this article, I comment on the seven articles that appeared in the special issues of Educational Technology Research and Development (1998, 46(4); 1999, 47(2)) and an associated American Educational Research Association (AERA) symposium, as well as other selected developments in educational technology as presented in a recent edited volume (Jacobson & Kozma, in press). I address the importan...

Texture is widely used in CBIR, and there have been a number of studies over the years to establish which features are perceptually significant. However, it is still diSJicult to retrieve reliably images that the human user would agree are “similar”. This paper reviews a range of computational methods, and compares their performance in class@ing and retrieving imagesporn the Brodatz set. Their ...

This paper describes the results of an investigation into requirements discovery during testing and operations. Requirements discovery includes both new requirements and new knowledge regarding existing requirements. Analysis of anomaly reports shows that many of the anomalies that occur during these phases involve requirements discovery. Previous work by the authors ident@ed four common mechan...

Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) is a well-known entity first described by Adams et al. in 1959 [1). This demyelinating disorder is associated with electrolyte disturbances (particularly of sodium) and typically occurs in the setting of alcoholism and malnutrition . Extrapontine myelinolysis (EPM) is identified pathologically in about 53% of cases [2] and, of these, thalamic lesions are detec...

Many techniques for building genetic physical maps of genomes involve collecting and characterising large numbers of genomic extracts. Errors and uncertainties in the data mean that many plausible maps can ofren be constructedfrom such data. This paperpresents a model, based on minimum message length ptinciples, that can be usedfor representing such maps. The model is designed to handle fragmen...

STAR, the spatio-temporal avay-receiver: was recently shown to outpe$orm RAKE-type array-receivers and to increase the capaciw of wideband CDMA networkr. Turbo codecs were also ident$ed as offering sign$cunt performance impmvements. In this contribution we demonstrote the gain ochieved by turbo codas over conventional convolutional codecs in a STAR-based CDMA system. For high data-rates of IS3....

This paper describes the development of an object inspection system for use in f lexible manufacturing systems for the inspection of complex machined components. During operation the system f i rs t locates and ident i f ies ins tan t ia t ions of the object in the field of view of a camera system. A robot arm is then used to manipulate the object in the field of view of a sensor in order to ch...

Cultures of Staphylococcus epidermidis from the eyes or nose of the same individual were compared by their antimicrobial phenotype, Staph-Ident (Analytab Products, Inc., Plainview, N.Y.) profile number, phage type, and plasmid profile to determine which parameters provide the most compelling data for their identity. None of the parameters alone provided this type of information. The most conclu...