This study aimed at analyzing the analysis biometric technology adoption and acceptance in Canada. From the introduction, the paper reveals that biometrics technology has been in existence for many decades despite rising to popularity in the last two decades. Canada has highly advanced in information technology. It is observed that the three sectors for the adoption and acceptance of biometric ...

Adaptive hypermedia is an alternative to the traditional “one-size-fits-all” approach in the development of hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia (AH) systems build a model of the goals, preferences, and knowledge of each individual user, and use this model throughout the interaction with the user, in order to adapt to the needs of that user. Adaptive navigation support is a specific group of...

Recently, the effects of global climate changes have become top concerns for governments’ decision making regarding infrastructure investments. Extreme weather events that exceed the capacity of existing systems have considerably increased in frequency, and the potential effects of changing trends in temperature and rainfall on infrastructure are difficult to ignore. It is essential for governm...

Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) systems require massive and complex knowledge spaces in order to provide adaptation and personalisation in learning. Hence, it is difficult for a single person or a small group of people to develop them effectively. Former studies addressed the problem by developing collaborative authoring systems. However, the systems tended to support object reusability r...

To optimize performance of applications running over wireless channels state-of-the-art wireless access technologies incorporate a number of channel adaptation mechanisms. While these mechanisms are expected to operate jointly providing the best possible performance for current wireless channel and traffic conditions, their joint effect is often difficult to predict. To control functionality of...

During the past decade, microevolution of intermediary metabolism has become an important new research focus at the interface between metabolic biochemistry and evolutionary genetics. Increasing recognition of the importance of integrative studies in evolutionary analysis, the rising interest in 'evolutionary systems biology', and the development of various 'omics' technologies have all contrib...

This paper introduces Vocaliza, an application for computeraided speech therapy in Spanish language based on the use of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The objective of this application is to help the daily work of the speech therapists that train the linguistic skills of Spanish speakers with different speech impairments, working at three levels of language: phonological, semantic and synta...

the present study is an attempt to analyze the characters in the novel blindness and its cinematic adapta- tion from intersemiotic viewpoint. to this end, the researchers provided a synthesized model, which is a combination of bernando (2012) and forster's (1927) classification of characters in order to analyze the two main characters from intersemiotic viewpoint. considering the differenc...

Automatic user interface adaptation is considered as a mechanism for supporting universal access to novel interaction technologies in the Information Society, and acquires increased importance in the context of ambient intelligence. However, little attention has been paid so far to supporting user interface designers in effectively designing adaptations. This paper presents a tool providing pro...