A biometric system which relies only on a single biometric identifier in making a personal identification is often not able to meet the desired performance requirement. The basic aim of a biometric identify system is to make distinction automatically between subjects in a reliable and dependable way, according to a specific-target application. Multimodal Biometric systems aim to fuse two or mor...

The aims of the study were to describe the pattern of health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenses incurred in seeking health care, and to identify the determinants of care-seeking from private general practitioners (GP) in two districts of Pakistan. During July-September 2001, we conducted a cross-sectional study in two districts in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. We selected 1,150 parti...

In a speaker veri ̄cation system, a claimed speaker's score is computed to accept or reject the speaker claim. Most of the current methods compute the score as the ratio of the claimed speaker's and the impostors' likelihood functions. Based on analysing false acceptance and false rejection errors obtained by using these methods, we propose a generalised method to ̄nd better scores which can red...

PEER INTERACTION AND RELATIONSHIPS—AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 573 Early North American Research 573 Post-World War II 574 INTERACTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND GROUPS: ORDERS OF COMPLEXITY IN CHILDREN’S PEER EXPERIENCES 575 Interactions 576 Relationships 577 Groups 578 Culture 579 Summary 580 THEORIES RELEVANT TO THE STUDY OF CHILDREN’S PEER INTERACTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND GROUPS 581 Personality Theori...

The driver gap acceptance and rejection behavior during mandatory lane changes on a multilane freeway are analyzed in this paper. Gaps are accepted or rejected based on comparison with a minimum value generally defined as the critical gaps. Critical gaps are estimated based on the accepted and rejected gaps observed in the field. Driver behavior can be classified as consistent or inconsistent o...

This paper reports comparative evaluations of conventional voice activity detection (VAD) methods in reverberant environments. Both conventional and standard (G.729) methods are discussed. In general, these methods work well under clean conditions, but their performance is drastically affected by reverberation. Preliminary comparative evaluations showed that the false acceptance rate (FAR) is s...

the aim of the current research is to investigate relationship between domineering behavior of male and female teachers and rating of their performance and likeability by school managers. the sample consists of 79 school teachers and 79 school managers (including men and women). instruments used are wiggins(1995) interpersonal adjective scale, wayne & liden (1995) teachers performance assessmen...

Supply Chain Management, which is concerned with material and information flows between facilities and the final customers, has been considered the most popular operations strategy for improving organizational competitiveness nowadays. With the advanced development of computer technology, it is getting easier to derive an acceptance sampling plan satisfying both the producer’s and consumer’s qu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate acceptance, preference and compliance with referral of vaginal self-sampling for the detection of Human papillomavirus (HPV) among women non-adherent to Papanicolaou (Pap) screening in Santiago, Chile. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using multistage sampling we identified women aged 30-64 years who reported not receiving a Pap test in the previous three years and offered them Pap...