Analysing large amounts of financial information within databases can be hardly accomplished when dealing with money laundering. The main reason is the lack of digital forensics and proper database analysis procedures within the anti-money laundering strategies of financial institutions. Also, analysing single or grouped financial events related to money laundering is difficult when the Know-Yo...

Given a vast empirical evidence that cash is widely used in the underground economy, inter-governmental bodies like FATF recommend policy measures aimed at limitation of cash and at combat of money laundering. We show that there is no simple monotone relationship between policy and the size of underground economy, so that the policy has at best a limited scope.

INTRODUCTION Traditionally, health safety and environmental (HS & E) investments have been viewed as expensive but necessary. HS & E professionals had a difficult task of providing data showing that these investments can also contribute to business success. An ORC task force developed a way for traditional financial analysis methods to be applied to HS & E investments and decisions. METHOD Th...

This paper deals with the design of control schemes for a robot manipulator in contact with a compliant surface. A passivity-based approach is adopted in the task space, where the control law contains a nonlinear model-based term and a linear term obtained as the sum of a position action and a force action. The force control action dominates the position control action along the constrained tas...

In this paper we propose a force position control scheme in a DOF task space which is a generalization of the parallel control scheme in a DOF task space The con troller consists of a PD action on the position loop a PI action on the force loop together with gravity com pensation and feedforward of the desired contact force Kinestatic ltering is not used in the scheme Euler pa rameters are adop...

In this paper, we present a novel method for recognition of unconstrained handwritten Arabic alphanumeric characters. The algorithm binarizes the character image, smoothes it and extracts its contour. A novel approach for polygonal approximation of handwritten character contours is applied. The directions and length features are extracted from the polygonal approximation. These features are use...