Iris recognition

Form Versus Chaos We are all acute schizophrenics. Consider Anna in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook: Anna as mother, Anna as activist, Anna as writer, and Anna as lover combine to produce an Anna more complete than each individual element. Alone, each component breaks down the entirity of Anna, in a process of self-alienation. We, too, are an amalgamation of our experiences and multiple personalities, yet to deny any part of ourselves, even the fragments, is to deny our entire being.

Pavement-management systems (PMS) can work effectively only when they are constructed by organically combining all activities concerned with road pavement (planning, design, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, evaluation, economic analysis, and research) and the data bank [1]. Then, the most important items are the establishment of a serviceability index, which represents pavement quality, and a prediction of performance, which is represented by the relation between time (and/or traffic) and

Set against the backdrop of the destructive ending of a century, and the beginning of a new, is a gritty crime drama with ties to science fiction that thrusts the audience into the forefront of the action. As the movie opens, the audience is quickly aligned with an unhappy ex-cop, who has no real job and lacks motivation, but maintains a sliver of hope by peddling illegal disks. A plethora of characters with distinctive goals are sent to both help and hinder the protagonists, Lenny, and later Mace

This paper will address some of the threats to business’ information resources and corrective actions on how these businesses can protect themselves in the modern age of technology. While technology has rapidly expanded a corporation’s abilities to deploy digital communication and data sharing, it has also ushered in a wave of cyber criminals and illegal data mining of proprietary information. This paper contains information on the tools that can be used to protect businesses and private users from

Abortion and Women's Rights: Unification of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice through Feminism January 22, 1973 is a day that, in the eyes of many modern feminists, marked a giant step forward for women's rights. On this date the U.S. Supreme court announced its decision in Roe v. Wade, a verdict that set the precedent for all abortion cases that followed. For the first time, the court recognized that the constitutional right to privacy "is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to

`How successful has the government in the UAE been in combating human trafficking? According to popular definition: 'Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or for the extraction of organs or tissues. ' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Trafficking) In my opinion, human trafficking is when a poor person is exploited against their will in order to serve someone else. There are many issues that can be considered human trafficking

CHAPTER 13 PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: DETERMINATION OF GAIN OR LOSS, BASIS CONSIDERATIONS, AND NONTAXABLE EXHANGES SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM MATERIALS | | | | |Status: | Q/P | |Question/ |Learning | | |Present |in Prior | |Problem |Objective |Topic

Optimization Technique for Feature Selection and Classification Using Support Vector Machine Abstract— Classification problems often have a large number of features in the data sets, but only some of them are useful for classification. Data Mining Performance gets reduced by Irrelevant and redundant features. Feature selection aims to choose a small number of relevant features to achieve similar or even better classification performance than using all features. It has two main objectives

Business Report of Caterpillar Inc. Data and information relative to Caterpillar, Inc. was collected via the internet. Current information was crucial to keeping the report timely and accurate. The five members assigned to the group wrote one section per person. Research was conducted on a separate basis, and construction of the report was on a group level. Each team member is responsible for their own assigned areas and nothing more. Financial Analysis Caterpillar is a publicly traded

recognize and recall a particular brand, but also involves associating the brand to certain memories (Keller, 2003). At this stage, it is hence crucial to fulfil two aspects of brand awareness: the depth, and the breath. Depth refers to the ease of recognition and recall experienced by the customers, and can be achieved by making the brand noticeable and memorable. On the other hand, the breadth represents the range of situations and settings during purchase where the brand is considered. A salient brand