In rheumatic diseases, autoantibody-producing cells of interest are often hidden in a polyclonal B-lymphocyte population. Immunoglobulin gene fingerprinting is a useful approach to screen for expanding clones and to detect recirculation between different locations. The gene fingerprinting approach and the Southern blot technique have been amalgamated, using electrophoretic transfer of a PCR pro...

Web-based device fingerprinting is the process of collecting information through the browser that is sufficient to perform device identification. Fonts, screen dimensions, language, timezone, plugins and user agent string are examples of properties that, if combined, may serve as globally unique identifier. Indeed, a 2010 study by Peter Eckersley (EFF) based on data collected from about half a ...

The rapid growth of digital multimedia technologies brings tremendous attention to the field of digital watermarking. One application for digital watermarking is fingerprinting. The owner or the distributor of the multimedia data can insert unique watermarks into copies for different customers or receivers, which will be helpful to identify the source of illegal copies. Fingerprinting can be us...

We compared random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting with cross-absorption agglutination and restriction enzyme analysis for typing bovine leptospires. Using RAPD fingerprinting, we examined a number of Leptospira serovars, namely, hardjo genotypes bovis and prajitno, pomona, balcanica, tarassovi, swajizak, kremastos, australis, and zanoni, which are likely to be isolated from Aus...

This work presents a new indoor localization method based on the fingerprinting technique. The proposed method uses a ray-tracing model that provides information about multipath effects. This information is stored in a dataset during the first stage of the fingerprinting method. The direction of arrival (DOA) and received signal strength (RSS) are used in the fingerprinting technique as a hybri...

Thwarting unlawful redistribution of information sold electronically is a major problem of information-based electronic commerce. Anonymous fingerprinting has appeared as a technique for copyright protection which is compatible with buyer anonymity in electronic transactions. However, the complexity of known algorithms for anonymous fingerprinting deters their practical implementation, since th...

Fingerprinting is a technique extensively used by law enforcement to identify criminals when traces are left behind which uniquely match a suspect. Digital fingerprinting is a conceptually similar technique. It canbe used to trace intellectual property infringement on virtual components already on the market. The method consists of translating virtual components into a compact sequence of symbo...