Colecta-PALM is a Web-based application delivered on PDAs that provides behavioral messaging based on risk assessment responses for HIV patients. Usability testing was undertaken with 15 people living with HIV.AIDS (PWLHA) in two clinics in Lima. Sixty percent (9/15) were somewhat/very satisfied with Colecta-PALM, with usefulness rated 3.7/5. Users found the tool innovative, interesting, easy t...

Black soldier fly (BSF) is becoming popular in the last few years. Several types of organic substrate have been tested as for BSF larvae (BSFL) and resulted valuable nutritional content BSFL. The purpose this study was to compare content, fatty acid profile, growth profile BSFL grown between fermented Palm Kernel Meal (PKM) cow manure (CM). In total 3000 g 7-day old larva (initial weight 0.044 ...

BACKGROUND Increasing prevalence of obesity and overweight in the Western world, continue to be a major health threat and is responsible for increased health care costs. Dietary intervention studies show a strong positive association between saturated fat intake and the development of obesity and cardiovascular disease. This study investigated the effect of positional distribution of palmitic a...

The palm vein is one of the most reliable physiological characteristics that can be used to distinguish between individuals. In recent years, it receives more attention from the researchers. In this paper, we present a new approach for the personal identification using palm vein images. This paper attempts to improve the performance of palm vein based verification system with the help of energy...

Optical character recognition refers to the process of translating segmented hand-written images or typewritten images into machine editable text. In this study, we propose a Tamil palm leaf manuscripts character recognition system using FFBNN technology. First the palm leaf manuscripts characters are segmented by exploiting the sliding window and adaptive histogram calculation. Afterwards, the...

In this research, we propose an innovative touch-less palm print recognition system. This project is motivated by the public’s demand for non-invasive and hygienic biometric technology. For various reasons, users are concerned about touching the biometric scanners. Therefore, we propose to use a low-resolution web camera to capture the user’s hand at a distance for recognition. The users do not...

This Palm print recognition implements many of matching characteristics as of finger print recognition and both biometrics are represented by the information present on the friction ridge impression. Palm prints differ from finger prints in a way since they contain many features and they have more discriminative regions than fingerprints. Because palm prints are both unique and permanent, they ...

Extending the frying-life of oils is of commercial and economic importance. Due to this fact, assessment on the thermal stability of frying oils could provide considerable savings to the food processors. In this study, the physico-chemical properties of five palm products mainly palm oil, single-fractionated palm olein, double-fractionated palm olein, red palm olein and palm-based shortening du...

I this article (the first article1 was devoted to handheld computers with Palm operating systems) we will discuss how to choose a hand-held computer running Microsoft operating systems (Windows and Pocket PC 2003). As noted in Part 1,1 these devices are more expensive, bigger, and more powerful than Palm OS–based machines. In 2002 Windows-based devices comprised about 30% of the Canadian hand-h...

The issue of how to represent the palm features for effective classification is still an open problem. In this paper, we propose a novel palm representation, the “Junction Points” (JP) set, which is formed by the two set of line segments extracted from the registered palmprint and palm vein images respectively. Unlike the existing approaches, the JP set, containing position and orientation info...