Tracing a Faint Fingerprint of the Invisible Hand?

Introduction: Fingerprints of the Invisible Hand

Protocols for Watermark Verification

deter piracy of multimedia content, the owner typically reveals the watermark in the process of establishing piracy. Once revealed, a watermark can be removed. We eliminate this limitation by using cryptographic protocols to demonstrate the presence of a watermark without revealing it. C onsider an application where multi-media content is electronically distributed over a network. To discourage...

Determination of Sex and Hand from Individual Fingerprints

A fingerprint found at the crime scene is one of the most crucial fragments of personal identification that a person might leave behind. Apart from being every person’s unique identification mark that are ubiquitous to all, to start with, they often reveal on further examination, certain characteristics about the person that might narrow down the suspects’ pool. To identify criterions that can ...

Behavioural Genetics: Evolutionary Fingerprint of the ‘Invisible Hand’

A recent study of the foraging gene in Drosophila illustrates a long-standing economic maxim that competition favors rare strategies. Two foraging alleles, rovers and sitters, each have higher fitness when rare--but only when competition is strong.

Case Report Criminalistics; Anthropology

This report describes the identification of a merchant mariner who perished in 1948 when Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a DC-4 carrying 24 seamen and six crew members crashed into Mount Sanford, Alaska. Fifty-one years later, a human forearm and hand were found close by the wreckage of the plane, prompting identification efforts using DNA and fingerprints. There were significant challenges to ...