3D X-ray microtomography (microCT) can non destructively characterize, inspect and solve many failure analysis problems associated with the manufacture of advanced materials, components, finished products, sensors for the military and industry. Conventional microCTs however, have spatial resolution limitation (typically of the order of a few microns to tens of microns) and poor contrast with lo...

Security plays a very important role in the day to day life. In order to avoid unauthorized access by individuals authentication is mandatory in various fields such as industry, government sectors, colleges, online banking, military, etc. , The traditional methods such as passwords or ID cards are less secure and forgery is possible. To overcome this, it is efficient to use biometric authentica...

The end of the Cold War led to a large drop in world military expenditure, rising fixed costs of developing weapons because of technological changes and a reduction of national preference for domestic weapons. Alongside these developments has been an increase in concentration in the world arms industry, which at the end of the Cold War had been very unconcentrated with concentration ratios clos...

The question "Is cockpit resource management effective?" has been asked frequently in the years since 1979 when a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Industry workshop addressed the concepts of crew coordination and effective utilization of all available resources in flight operations (Cooper, White, & Lauber, 1980). If one looks at the proliferation of cockpit resource manage...

Introduction Supplier development and management systems of U.S. aircraft manufacturers have evolved rapidly during the 1990s in an environment of reduced military procurement and a worldwide slump in commercial aircraft sales. The result has been an ongoing restructuring within the aircraft industry supplier base, with significant implications for customer-supplier relationships and, potential...

Studies in Comparative International Development, Spring 2006, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 76-98. Seán Ó Riain is professor of sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research has been primarily on the political economy of high-tech growth in Ireland and elsewhere, and on work and class politics among software developers. He is the author of The Politics of High Tech Growth: Deve...

Due to the globalization of the integrated circuit manufacturing industry, hardware Trojans constitutes an increasingly probable threat to both military and commercial applications. The Trojans being stealthy in nature, the Trojan hardware is hard to be triggered under random patterns. In this paper, we propose practical test patterns generation technique based on rare logic conditions at inter...

An important aspect of human visual system is the ability to recognize objects despite of the change in their position, size, and orientation. Therefore, any pattern recognition system for many applications, such as for industry or military, must have the ability to recognize geometrically distorted patterns, i.e. scaled, rotated and shifted patterns. In this paper Hotelling transform algorithm...