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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Minutiae"”.
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Minutiae Triplet-based Features with Extended Ridge Information for Determining Sufficiency in Fingerprints
… comparison. The proposed methodologies use minutiae triplet-based features in a hierarchical fashion, where not only minutia points are used, but ridge information is used to help establish relations between minutiae. Results show (1) that our triplet-based descriptor is useful in …
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Comparison of Epidermal and Dermal Fingerprints in Elderly Individuals: a Pilot Study
… was also analysed by fingerprint experts. More minutiae were found on epidermal fingerprints than on dermal fingerprints (V=69, p=0.02133) and powder was proven as the most successful of the two methods in regards to minutiae detection (V=69.5, p=0.0222). However, the number of matching minutiae …
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Quantifying the Limits of Fingerprint Variability
… Fingerprint templates, containing `true' minutiae locations, were then created from 10 inked planar impressions for 30 separate fingers. The 30 fingers studied consisted of 10 right slant loops, 10 plain arches, and 10 plain whorls. A minimal amount of variability, .18 mm globally, was …
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Matching optical coherence tomography fingerprint scans using an iterative closest point pipeline
… feature, with an AUC of 0.896. By contrast, 2D minutiae extracted from the internal fingerprint achieved an AUC 0.860. These results make our pipeline useful in both access control and identification applications. ICP offers a low False Positive Rate and can match ∼30 composite 3D minutiae a …
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In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth
… woman in each man's life gives voice to the minutiae of pain, balancing melancholy, farce and horror, until all characters' voices elide in a whirlpool of personal and public reckoning, memory and desire.
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Robust Feature Extraction and Temporal Analysis for Partial Fingerprint Identification
… A novel approach is proposed for detecting minutiae in low quality image regions. The approach has demonstrated an increase in match performance for a set of fingerprints from a well-known database. While the method is effective at improving match performance for all of the fingerprint …
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Analysis and detection of fingerprint creases
… salient features on the fingerprint, including minutiae points, pores, and singular points, for comparing two fingerprint images. In this work, we explore the possibility of using fingerprint creases for comparing two fingerprints. Creases can be described as white lines or scars on a …
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Contextual biometric watermarking of fingerprint images
… are visually imperceptible and maintain the minutiae detail. The integrity of the fingerprint image is verified through high matching score obtained from the AFIS system. There is also a high degree of correlation between the embedded and extracted watermarks. The degree of similarity is …
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In Search of a Single Voice: The Politics of Form, Use and Belief in the Kernewek Language
… approaches in the language, debates over the minutiae of spelling, aesthetic sensibilities, and practices of the naming and renaming of people and places.</p>
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A survey of the effectiveness of the business curriculum in selected small high schools of California
… general a nature, or are confined to selected minutiae. Whatever surveys have been made were of isolated factors. This study makes the attempt to integrate those feasible sources of information for determining the effectiveness of the high school business educational program in the Patterson, …
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The Letterkenny & Burtonport Extension Railway 1903-47: Its social context and environment
… and the accepted railway enthusiast’s cherished minutiae of locomotives, timetables, horsepower, manuals, specifications, signalling, gradients and memorabilia. Little reference to any of the above will be found in this study for the simple reason that this author is not a railway enthusiast, has …
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The fourteenth-century sheriff : English local administration in the late Middle Ages
… administrators. He excelled at unravelling the minutiae of procedure and the day-today routine of shire affairs. It is, of course, impossible to divorce officials from their work. Sheriffs appointed during the fourteenth century were a direct reflection of what the office entailed and its …
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Literary And Linguistic Studies In Sefer Bilvam (Numbers 22–24)
… moves beyond these features, first treating the minutiae of the pericope's literary mechanics, and then turning to the larger tropes and patterns operative not only within this text, but also between it and other portions of the biblical corpus. Ultimately, this research highlights the richness, …
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Multinational corporations in violent conflict: a case study of firestone in Liberia
… attention has been paid to understanding the minutiae of corporate behaviour in contemporary conflict and that more in-depth low-n case studies are required before prescribing a positive role for companies in conflict zones. The findings of this paper reveal the importance of accounting for …
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Instant Conductors
… on transmitting what one experiences in the minutiae of memory and routine: the sounds that surround a blackwater tidepool, what one imagines happens behind the closed doors of the friendly neighbors, or what's heard in the whispers of an elderly man sitting in a waiting room. These pieces …
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Toward a New Reading of Cicero's De Finibus
… future of Rome even when he deals with the minutiae, down to the knuckle bone, of Hellenistic ethics.</p>
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Une certain équivoque? A study of Vincent van Gogh's ambivalent engagement with prostitution, highlighted by the 1888 Courrier Français controversy
… the neglected margins, and by attending to the minutiae of material history - I hope to tease out a more authentic sense of the conditions that attended these paintings' production, and point to some of the complexities associated with more recent points in their reception. Implicit in my …
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Organising science policy : participation, learning & experimentation in British democracy
… cannot be understood without attention to the minutiae of everyday meetings and communications systems, or to broader political shifts like civil service reform. Despite the apparent rigidity of Sciencewise practices and discourses, there were significant instances of learning and change …
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Serving the man that ruled: aspects of the domestic arrangements of the household of King John, 1199-1216
… medieval king could be directly involved in the minutiae of his domestic establishment; this is an aspect of kingship not previously noticed by historians. It is upon these findings that this thesis makes its greatest original contribution to our understanding of the period. To reach these …
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Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland
… but one with a unique capacity to connect the minutiae of lives lived under emergency law with the larger frames of history, law and governance. Locating myself at the intersection of legal history and literary studies, I begin by tracing the common colonial roots of the disturbed areas clause …
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