Background: Members of this genus Aureobasidium are ubiquitous microorganisms which can be isolated from wide ranges of substrates such as plant materials (phyllosphere, plant debris, bark, roots, fruits and wood), soil, dead wood, air, and as rare etiologic agent of pheohyphomycosis, keratomycosis, septicemia, peritoneal sepsis, and dermatological infections in human. Very little is known on t...

by Feng Shen One important barrier to the use of current iris recognition techniques in law enforcement areas such as forensics is that the iris features used by these techniques are not interpretable to human eyes. This dissertation proposes a novel iris recognition technique that determines a human’s identity based on the crypt, a visible feature on the iris. The major motivation is to aid th...

a familiar criticism of kant, made by hegel and his followers, j .s. mill and others, is that there are no maxims that are in fact contradictory, as required for morality on kant's view. in this paper, i discuss the suggestion that our capacity for rational reflection itself implies universality, and that it is this universality that obliges us to act morally. i consider the idea that self...

the brain – computer interface (bci) provides a communicational channel between human and machine. most of these systems are based on brain activities. brain computer-interfacing is a methodology that provides a way for communication with the outside environment using the brain thoughts. the success of this methodology depends on the selection of methods to process the brain signals in each pha...

In this chapter, I discuss self-consciousness as a unique feature of our species. as a student of early childhood, my goal is to provide some developmental light on the origins and consequences of this feature that arguably shapes human experience. at the core of my argument is the idea that self-consciousness is inseparable from the human propensity to take an ethical stance toward others, but...

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal for human identity recognition is a new area on biometrics research. The ECG is a vital signal of human body, unique, robustness to attack, universality and permanence, difference to others traditional biometrics technic. This study also proposes Adaptive Multilayer Generalized Learning Vector Quantization (AMGLVQ), that integrating feature extraction and classifi...