Microbiota fingerprints lose individually identifying features over time

Microbiota fingerprints lose individually identifying features over time

BACKGROUND Humans host individually unique skin microbiota, suggesting that microbiota traces transferred from skin to surfaces could serve as forensic markers analogous to fingerprints. While it is known that individuals leave identifiable microbiota traces on surfaces, it is not clear for how long these traces persist. Moreover, as skin and surface microbiota change with time, even persistent...

Identifying Objects Over Time with Description Logics

A fundamental requirement for cooperating agents is to agree on a selection of component values of objects that can be used for reliably communicating references to the objects, that is, to function as their keys. In distributed environments such as the web, it is more likely that a choice of such values may have time limits on the duration of their ability to serve as keys, e.g., values denoti...

Identifying Expression Fingerprints using Linguistic Information

This thesis presents a technology to complement taxation-based policy proposals aimed at addressing the digital copyright problem. The approach presented facilitates identification of intellectual property using expression fingerprints. Copyright law protects expression of content. Recognizing literary works for copyright protection requires identification of the expression of their content. Th...

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