Polynesian Finger Prints: Ellice Islanders

Racial Differences in Finger-Prints

Development of Latent Finger-Prints on Paper

Fast trains, slow boats, and the ancestry of the Polynesian islanders.

The question of the origins of the Polynesians has, for over 200 years, been the subject of adventure science. Since Captain Cook's first speculations on these isolated Pacific islanders, their language affiliations have been seen as an essential clue to the solution. The geographic and numeric centre of gravity of the Austronesian language family is in island Southeast Asia, which was therefor...

Finger and palm prints in chromatin-positive males.

An Intelligent Approach for Age Detection Using Finger Prints

The forensic investigators always search for fingerprint evidence which is seen as one of the best types of physical evidence linking a suspect to the crime. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been used to estimate a person‟s age using his/her fingerprint. Mostly K nearest neighbor (KNN) is used as a robust classif...